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Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:Alco 4-6-6-4Built As:UP 3987 (4-6-6-4)
Serial Number:70176Order No:S-1879
Frame Number:21X32 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:6/1943
Notes:Schenectady 06/1943, retired 04/1960
Other locos with this serial:  UP 3987(4-6-6-4)
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UP 3987 and 4019 Press photo
Title:  UP 3987 and 4019 Press photo
Description:  Date only listed as 1954 and location unknown. 3987 was built Jun 1943 vacated Apr 1960. Mrs johnson, a native of Brussels Belgium was a noted female photographer and the first woman to take photographs inside the arena at Cheyenne Frontier Days....A task formerly conducted by men due to the dangerous setting. Her photos appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, automotive periodicals, London Times, Daily Mirror, US Camera Annual, British Bhotography Yearbook, Popular Photography Annual while her esteemed son's work appeared in Life magazine, Fortune magazine and many advertisements in the 1950s and 1960s. Together their work spans decades 1940s through the 1970s..
Photo Date:  5/15/1954  Upload Date: 3/25/2013 3:30:05 PM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Marguerite Baker Johnson
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Locomotives:  UP 4019(4-8-8-4) UP 3987(4-6-6-4)
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