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2/26/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:Alco 4-8-8-4Built As:UP 4024 (4-8-8-4)
Serial Number:72781Order No:S-1936
Frame Number:23¾X32 cylinders, 68" driversBuilt:11/1944
Notes:blt 11/44, retired 7/62
Other locos with this serial:  UP 4024(4-8-8-4)
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UP 4024 Press photo
Title:  UP 4024 Press photo
Description:  Date only listed as 1954 and location unknown. 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 3:29:40 PM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Marguerite Baker Johnson
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Locomotives:  UP 4024(4-8-8-4)
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