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Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP40M-2Built As:WM 3797 (GP40)
Serial Number:37888Order No:5791
Frame Number:5791-3Built:8/1971
Notes:nee WM 3797 > CSX 6572 > SP 7108
Other locos with this serial:  WM 3797(GP40) SP 7108(GP40M-2) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
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UP 1478
Title:  UP 1478
Description:  UPs Duluth transfer shifts in Itasca at 0912.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:16:11 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
UP 1478
Title:  UP 1478
Description:  City Limits Road at 0918.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:16:19 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
UP 1478
Title:  UP 1478
Description:  The UP local bears down on Rices Point at 1123.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:23:35 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
UP 1080
Title:  UP 1080
Description:  The UP local straddles the St Louis River at 1343.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:26:08 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
UP 1080
Title:  UP 1080
Description:  Winter Swreet at 1356.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:26:16 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
UP 1080
Title:  UP 1080
Description:  Elm Avenue at 1405.
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/9/2017 6:25:51 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Far From Home Rails
Title:  Far From Home Rails
Description:  An Ex Western Maryland engine now in Armour Yellow works the yard in South Itasca
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:41:43 PM
Location:  South Itasca, WI
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Working South Itasca
Title:  Working South Itasca
Description:  Ex WM 3797 works the UP yard with an Ex SP GP60 trailing
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:42:13 PM
Location:  South Itasca, WI
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
Ready to Work
Title:  Ready to Work
Description:  Union Pacific YIT61 rolls into Duluth to switch the various industries there
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:50:22 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1080(GP60)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Back Into Wisconsin
Title:  Back Into Wisconsin
Description:  UP YIT61 returns to Itasca with the Southern Pacific GP60 leading the way
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:54:29 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Patch Job
Title:  Patch Job
Description:  A former Southern Pacific GP60 still in SP paint leads the YIT61 through Superior on it's way back to Itasca
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:55:29 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
Red Nose and Red Ballast
Title:  Red Nose and Red Ballast
Description:  UP 1080, a former Southern Pacific GP60, leads YIT61 back to Itasca
Photo Date:  10/26/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 5:56:02 PM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Jacob Rink
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1080(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
UP 1478 + 1440
Title:  UP 1478 + 1440
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/10/2018  Upload Date: 9/23/2018 11:28:16 PM
Location:  Savage, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1440(GP40-2) UP 1440(GP40-2)
Views:  709   Comments: 0
UP 1478 + 1440
Title:  UP 1478 + 1440
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/10/2018  Upload Date: 10/2/2024 6:48:22 PM
Location:  Savage, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1440(GP40-2) UP 1440(GP40-2)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
UP 1145 LPA18
Title:  UP 1145 LPA18
Description:  Two boxes splice two geeps on Job 18, heading north at 1041.
Photo Date:  11/2/2018  Upload Date: 1/4/2019 3:30:55 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1145(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
UP 1145 LPA18 (2)
Title:  UP 1145 LPA18 (2)
Description:  Johnson Street at 1041.
Photo Date:  11/2/2018  Upload Date: 1/4/2019 3:31:01 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1145(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
UP 1478
Title:  UP 1478
Description:  Built August 1971 as WM 3797.
Photo Date:  11/2/2018  Upload Date: 1/4/2019 3:31:07 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1145(GP60)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
UP 1145 LPA18 (3)
Title:  UP 1145 LPA18 (3)
Description:  Silver Creek Road at 1057.
Photo Date:  11/2/2018  Upload Date: 1/4/2019 3:31:14 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1145(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
UP 1478
Title:  UP 1478
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/2/2018  Upload Date: 1/4/2019 3:31:20 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2) UP 1145(GP60)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
UP 1478 LPA70
Title:  UP 1478 LPA70
Description:  Job 70 heads back to Butler at 1104.
Photo Date:  5/2/2019  Upload Date: 8/25/2019 11:02:58 PM
Location:  Clyman, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Trio switching sand empties
Title:  Trio switching sand empties
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/2019  Upload Date: 5/29/2019 12:26:29 PM
Location:  Butler, WI
Author:  Edward Weisensel
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1878(SD40N) UPY 712(GP15-1) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
UP 1478 LPA51
Title:  UP 1478 LPA51
Description:  51 is a lite engine northbound, meandering through town at 0921.
Photo Date:  12/13/2019  Upload Date: 2/26/2020 11:22:07 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  108   Comments: 0
YSB52 pulls a cut of boxcars down the hill from Georgia Pacific
Title:  YSB52 pulls a cut of boxcars down the hill from Georgia Pacific
Description:  Outbounds will be added to their train on the main, then inbounds will be shoved back in.
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/1/2020 10:46:06 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
UP 1478 shoves the local north past the wigwags
Title:  UP 1478 shoves the local north past the wigwags
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/1/2020 11:10:35 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
UP 1478 keeps shoving the train across Najacht Road
Title:  UP 1478 keeps shoving the train across Najacht Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/1/2020 11:17:15 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
UP 1478 shoves across Garton Road
Title:  UP 1478 shoves across Garton Road
Description:  While not quite as rare as wigwags, just plain crossing signals with incandescent lights and a mechanical bell are getting to be kind of unusual these days. Nearly everything is getting gates, giant L.E.D. lightheads and e-bells now.
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/1/2020 11:21:04 PM
Location:  Mosel, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
UP 1478 crosses Saemann Avenue once again, now heading south
Title:  UP 1478 crosses Saemann Avenue once again, now heading south
Description:  This time, we see the wigwag on the east side of the crossing in action.
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/2/2020 1:24:30 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Homeward bound YSB52 trundles across the Sheboygan River
Title:  Homeward bound YSB52 trundles across the Sheboygan River
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/2/2020 1:27:09 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
A Geep, four boxcars and a caboose
Title:  A Geep, four boxcars and a caboose
Description:  To the right, behind the engine is a small portion of the Cargill (formerly Schrier) malt plant. The spur to it comes off the Kohler branch (former Sheboygan & Mississippi RR), down a steep hill and passes under the bridge as it crosses New Jersey Avenue to reach the plant.
Photo Date:  11/30/2020  Upload Date: 12/2/2020 1:29:13 PM
Location:  Sheboygan, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  202   Comments: 1
UP 1161 1478
Title:  UP 1161 1478
Description:  UP Local
Photo Date:  4/15/2024  Upload Date: 5/11/2024 8:10:36 PM
Location:  Block, IL
Author:  Zachary Walters
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1161(GP60) UP 1478(GP40M-2)
Views:  71   Comments: 0

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