This week’s Sunday morning experience was visting the UP 3985 on display at Albina Yard in Portland. We packed up the family and headed down there, arriving under gray skies around 10:00. I chuckled at the arrangement whereby you get to the locomotive by going through the gift shop, but I made it out of there only $8 poorer.
It’s an impressive machine, and I bet it’s even more impressive when it’s under steam. I did ask the guy in the UP Steam garb about the Jolly Roger (pirate) flags that adorn the pilot of the locomotive. His response: “Because we can. We’re kind of the rogues of the UP system, we go wherever we want whenever we want and people get out of our way.”
Here’s a few photos:
