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CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
AN IRON HORSE
04-17-09
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
Rail aficionados arise, one of the two Union Pacific‘s large steam engine's
is rolling towards the Golden State. Engine No. 844, will roll in and out
of the Bay Area next week, scheduled to lay over in Oakland on April 21 for
public viewing.
The Cheyenne, Wyo.-based steamer and its train are on the Western Heritage
Tour, which began this past Saturday in Cheyenne before heading west through
Utah and Nevada before cross Donner Pass into California.
The steam engine and its train are scheduled to arrive in Roseville on Saturday
and will be open to the public from noon to 3pm, then will roll west on the
"Capitol Corridor" route through Sacramento, Davis, Fairfield, Martinez, Crockett,
Pinole, Richmond and Emeryville, scheduled to arrive in Oakland about 11 a.m.
on Monday April 20th.
The train will be on public display from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 21 at the UP
freight yard in West Oakland, at 1408 Inner Harbor Road.
The train is to leave Oakland about 9 a.m. April 22, rolling through San Leandro
to Niles, and then east on the Altamont Commuter Express line through Niles Canyon,
Sunol, Pleasanton, Livermore, Altamont Pass and Tracy then into Stockton for an
11:30 a.m. arrival.
The train is scheduled to be on display at the Stockton ACE station, 949 E.
Channel St., from 1 to 5 p.m. April 22, and again from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 23
at the UP freight yard, 838 E. Eighth St. in Stockton.
It's important to note that, for various reasons, these departures and arrivals
can be hours later than planned — things can happen earlier than scheduled. Rail
fans and others can follow No. 844's progress across the country and in the Bay
Area using global positioning, on UP's Web site.
Go to http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/trace.cfm. And the train crew will be
Twittering, as well — something as foreign to steam engineers of the 1940s as
the computerized diesels that move U.S., freight trains today.
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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