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| The Union Pacific Steam Engine that stopped in WaKeeney as a part of their anniversary celebration in August. |
They just couldn't wait to 'blow off a little steam' to impress the crowd. The railroad has been a part of WaKeeney's transportation system just as the Smoky Hill Trail, the Butterfield Overland Despatch Trail, Highway 40 and 283 and Interstate 70. No longer is there a passenger train that stops in WaKeeney but loads of coal and wheat regularly pass through. Occasionally you'll see rail cars loaded with wind generator propellers headed to a new wind farm.
I think the crowd didn't want to see the old steam engine #844 leave as it gave them a glimpse of an earlier era.
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