The highlight of our Denver trip with the Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) was our train ride behind Union Pacific's 844 4-8-4 Northern locomotive. Our club was fortunate enough to acquire a ride on this train which is not usually open to the general public. We also got a tour of the steam shop to boot! Another special surprise was they covered over the 'Union Pacific' logo on the tender, with 'Lionel Lines', just for us!
We boarded the train at Denver's Union Station and headed to Cheyenne. They stopped in Nunn, CO, let us off and did a couple of photo run by's. Then we boarded and went up into the plains somewhere close to the Colorado-Wyoming border and led us off for another run by, re-boarding the train again and headed on into Cheyenne to the depot!
Photos of the rest of the tour of the steam shop will be in the next post.
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