Union Pacific had a group of scale test cars stored at their yard in Winona, MN in spring 2023. They included a variety of designs and predecessor initials. CNW 263633 was in the group and seemed ... (more)

From time to time, some railroads get rid of surplus power, and other railroads pick up other roads' locomotives. In the 1980s, Illinois Central Gulf had excess GP38ACs and the Missouri-Kansas-Te... (more)

Idling away in the Union Pacific’s former Western Pacific yard in Oakland are UP SD40-2 3373 (built 3/77) and UP SD40-2 3916 (ex-MP 6016; née-MP 3232; built 8/76). Before long, these locomotiv... (more)

Snappy SD40N 1793 (rebuilt at Jenks Shop in NLR from an SD40-2 delivered to UP in May 1973) and a couple leased geeps are refueled.

Don't believe everything you read.

UP stored power consisting of mostly dash-9s and SD9043MACS. 9766 was formally CNW 8662 and was recently repainted.

A freshly painted UPY 415 sits in the UP's North Platte yard as a single unit brings in an empty coal train.

Here is an over/under shot as a BNSF freight heads into Cheyenne over the old C&S bridge while UP 8632 leads a freight out of the west end of the UP yard.

UP 5841 (AC44CWCTE) leads a freight through the signal tower on the west side of the large UP yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 1853 (SD40-2) pulls a string of freight for sorting in the large UP yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 7997 (ES44AC) leads an inbound sand train as another train exits the yard through the signal bridge on the east end of the massive complex. Sharp-eyed foamers will notice four 3GS21B units fol... (more)

Here is an over/under shot with a bonus. UP Northwestern Special 1995 was tail-end-Charlie on a container train heading west out of the Cheyenne yard. Check out the roached unit ahead of 1995...... (more)

UP 8448 (SD70ACe) brings a container train into the Cheyenne yard. It is amazing how many trains will pass through the yard in an hour.

UP 6631 (AC4400CW) shoves a sand train through the signal bridge on the east side of the UP yard in Cheyenne.

UP 8753 (SD70ACe) muscles a sand train through the east end of the UP yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.