UP 2-8-8-0 in the Blue Mountains

UP 2-8-8-0 in the Blue Mountains

By Angela Cotey | October 27, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


The Union Pacific’s 3500-class 2-8-8-0s were often found lugging freights in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Here, No. 3532 pulls 70 cars of an extra freight upgrade west of La Grande, Ore., in July 1948.
Henry R. Griffiths Jr. photo

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