Union Pacific Railroad

General Notes:

1. All four units (along with a fifth, UP 1059) are owned by UP, and were received from Helm Financial in trade for 19 retired former C&NW units.
2. All four units were retired by SP in 1994 and 1995, and sold to Progress Rail; all were then purchased by Helm and reconditioned for lease to UP in August 1996; reconditioned for Helm and painted to UP colors by Metro East Industries, East St. Louis, Illinois (SP retirement data from Tony Johnson and former SP employees)
3. UP 1003 was retired on 28 April 2003, prior to being renumbered to UPY 1003.
4. Individual unit histories:

General Notes:

1. Total of 28 units leased from Helm Financial under a lease originally negotiated with SP; numbered as UP 1004-1031; the above eight units renumbered to UPY series as shown, before being retired and returned to owner Helm Financial.
2. Former NS units were sold by NS to Helm during June 1996; former SP units sold by SP to Progress Rail Services and others, then sold to Helm during November 1995.
3. All units reconditioned for Helm and painted to UP colors by Metro East Industries, East St. Louis, Illinois
4. Individual unit histories:

Notes:

1. UPY 1012 was retired on 11 March 2002; its lease was extended for an additional year on 1 July 2002 upon the return of UPY 1029; UPY 1012 was retired again on 7 April 2003; returned to Helm Financial.
2. UPY1018, 1024, 1029, along with UP 1005, 1006, 1011, 1014, 1015, 1019, 1020, 1021, 1025, 1026, 1027 (total of 14 units) were sold by Helm to Larrys Truck Electric (LTEX) in May 2005, and began moving to LTE's MacDonald, Ohio, facility at the same time.

General Notes:

1. Total of four MKT units went to UP at merger, numbered MKT 52-55; renumbered to UP 1324-1327 series in 1989 to 1993.
2. Built on EMD order number 7112.

Notes:

1. UPY 1036-1039 were retired and returned to their owner upon expiration of their lease.
2. UPY 1037, as UP 1325 (ex MKT 53) was the last former MKT units to be repainted to Union Pacific, completed on 25 November 1993, five years after the 1988 merger between UP and MKT.
3. UPY 1038 was renumbered from UPY 1326 (1st) on 13 August 2001; UPY 1326 (1st) was renumbered in error from UP 1326 on 17 July 2001.
4. UPY 1039 was the first unit in this group to be renumbered, completed on 13 June 2000.

General Notes:

1. Total of three WP units went to UP at merger, numbered WP 1501-1503; renumbered to UP 1500 series in 1984; renumbered to UP 1300 series in 1987 and 1988; renumbered to UPY 1040 series in 2001 and 2004.
2. UP 1040-1042, as UP 1315-1317, were purchased by UP on 3 January 1989 upon expiration of the original WP lease.

General Notes:

1. Original total of 240 SP/SSW units; total of 174 units went to UP at merger; SP retired 66 units prior to the merger.
2. In 1967 to 1973, SP/SSW received 240 SW1500s (in 11 different orders), of the total of 808 SW1500s built by EMD (30 percent of the total fleet).
3. UP renumbering records are incomplete for UP 1151, 1174, and 1190; dates shown are the repainting completion dates by Rescar, Inc.
4. Assigned UP 1060-1233 in December 1996, 68 units renumbered; assigned UPY 1060-1233 in December 1999.
5. Of the 174 units to UP at merger; 68 units were retired by UP prior to the December 1999 renumber plan; leaving 106 units to be renumbered to the new UPY series.

Notes:

1. SP 2459, 2468, 2469, 2470, 2472, 2477, SSW 2482, SP 2498, 2501, 2503, 2525, 2531, 2543, 2601, 2627, 2671, 2678, 2680, 2687 (19 units) were in August and October 1999 and sold to National Railway Equipment, stored at Mount Vernon, Illinois
2. UPY 1068 was retired by UP and was sold at auction; purchased by Juniata Terminal as their no. 9625.
3. UPY 1072 (ex UP 1072) was the first unit in this group to be renumbered, completed on 19 January 2000.
4. UPY 1072, as UP 1072 (ex SP 2466) was first retired on 29 October 1999; reinstated on 28 December 1999.
5. UP 1112 (ex SP 2526)
6. UP 1146 and 1172 were sold to Central California Traction Co., Stockton, California, numbers 54 and 55, on 1 July 1999.
7. UPY 1160 was built as SSW 2588 and relettered to SP 2588 prior to the UP/SP merger.
8. UPY 1178 sold to Central California Traction Co., Stockton, California.
9. UPY 1183, as UP 1183 (ex SP 2662) was the first unit in this group to be repainted to Union Pacific, completed on 12 December 1996; it was also the first former SP unit to receive UP paint and a UP number.
10. UPY 1211 was sold to Denver-Rock Island Railroad (DRIR), Denver, Colorado, as their Y1211.
11. UP 1214, as SP 2628, was first retired on 28 February 1999; reinstated on 8 March 1999.
12. UPY 1217 first retired on 31 August 1999; reinstated; retired again on 31 October 2002.

General Notes:

1. Purchased from Helm Financial as part of a unit exchange of five SW1500s (UP 1000-1003, 1059) for 19 former C&NW units.
2. Reconditioned for Helm and painted to UP colors by Metro East Industries, East St. Louis, Illinois
3. UP 1059 was assigned UPY 1059 in December 1999; renumbered instead to UPY 1084 for unknown reasons (the original UPY 1084 was assigned to ex SSW 2482, retired in October 1999).

General Notes:

1. UPY 1112 was renumbered from UP 1112 (2nd), which was delivered to UP on 1 February 2002 by Helm Financial to replace the retired UP 1009; UP 1112 (1st) was retired on 30 January 2002 and UP 1009 was retired on 28 February 2002.