Due to a main bearing failure in one of the Ski Train's F40s (SKTX 289), UP 1989 made an appearance on the point of the Ski Train for two weekends in a row in early February 2007. Its first run was on Friday, 2-Feb-2007, and its last was on Sunday, 11-Feb-2007. The following weekend (Feb 16-18), SKTX 289 was returned to regular service, and 1989 went back on the Denver-Pueblo nightly manifests.