October 14, 2019 – The inbound crew on Union Pacific 1989, Denver Rio Grande Heritage Unit, leaves CSX W221-13 at Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana after tying down their train. A new outbound crew will take coke train on south onto the Henderson Subdivision on its way to Georgia. It’s trailing units here are UP 6684 and 7164.
According to Wikipedia: Union Pacific 1989: Serial number 20056723-098, is painted in Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad colors. It was delivered on 24 May 2006, unveiled on June 17, 2006, at a special UP employee event in Denver, Colorado.
It is one of six EMD SD70ACe locomotives that are painted in the liveries of railroads acquired by the Union Pacific. The company says the locomotives “pay homage to those railroads and the generations of men and women who helped to build a great nation and the foundation for our future.”