Following the end of the 2013 season, the locomotive was taken out of service for boiler work necessitated by a change in the water treatment, spending all of 2014 in Cheyenne. In 2015, it was announced that 844 would be receiving an early 15-year inspection and is expected to return to service sometime in 2016.
To suggest that Union Pacific would scrap 844 is quite frankly ridiculous. It is one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world. UP are actually expanding their steam fleet, they are currently restoring Big Boy No.4014.