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Union Pacific

8444 In the Beginning

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8444 In the Beginning

$29.95

Back when the 8444 got her 4–digit number, steam had not yet vanished from the Union Pacific. Catch this living legend in the early years of steam ambassadorship.

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While mammoth “Big Boys” and decapods lay dormant awaiting the fall grain rush, and the great City fleet of Streamliners whisked by, 8444 was busy on the job. This DVD salutes 8444 in 1960's era excursions from Denver to Rawlins and Ogden to Green River, complete with domes and full service diners. A marvelous brass-railed, open platform 1890’s observation car brings up the rear of a glistening streamlined consist. Explore the Dent Branch between Denver and La Salle. In the finale, 8444 forges through a major blizzard on Sherman Hill in what UP upper management threatened would be her last run. But, luckily for us, she continues to steam on to the present day!

30 minutes

“In one of your ads some time ago you said that ‘No one cherished your tapes’. I DO. The quality is second to none, the music adds to the atmosphere, the film quality looks as if it had been shot yesterday and THE NARRATOR IS FIRST CLASS. Keep up the good work and fine quality. You’re in a class by yourselves.”
— G.J. Byrne, Pickering, Ontario