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Owner: UPMW
Model:GE 44TonnerBuilt As:GE 1399 (44Tonner)
Serial Number:28344Order No:281-4456
Frame Number:Built:2/1947
Notes:blt 2/47 as GE 1399
Other locos with this serial:  UPMW 903999(44Tonner) DRMX 1399(44Tonner)
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UPMW 903999
Title:  UPMW 903999
Description:  The following information is taken from Don Strack's excellent Utah Rails site (www.utahrails.net), the best source on the web for UP roster data: UPMW 903999 was built new as GE demonstrator 1399, delivered to Union Pacific on 28 March 1947; sold to UP on 8 May 1947. UP 1399 renumbered to UPMW 03999 in October 1956; renumbered to UPMW 903999 in December 1959; used at maintenance of way equipment shop at Pocatello, Idaho, from October 1956 until 1972; sent to Omaha for a complete rebuild in late 1972, completed in February 1973; used as Omaha shop switcher until retirement in 1974. Sold to Diesel Supply Co., in June 1974; sold to General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut in August 1974, named "Diane"; donated to Danbury Railroad Museum, Danbury, Connecticut in about July 2006.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 12/14/2010 8:59:05 PM
Location:  Brook Park, OH
Author:  Robert Lockwood
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Locomotives:  UPMW 903999(44Tonner)
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