Film History
The UP 844 appears in the opening and closing credits of the 1989–1995 PBS show Shining Time Station.
UP 844 also appears in Extreme Trains in the episode "Steam Train" in which 844 is pulling The Denver Post's Frontier Days special from Denver to Cheyenne.
In the 1990 PBS special Ghost Trains of the Old West, 8444, as it was numbered at the time of filming, is seen pulling a Union Pacific diesel locomotive and passenger train through Wyoming at about 75 mph.
Numbered as 8444, the locomotive was featured on a trip from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Los Angeles, California in the 1989 documentary film "Steam To Los Angeles"
Read more about this topic: Union Pacific 844
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