Merger mania in Utah's Price Canyon: A trio of Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a stopped IPP train at Utah Railway Junction while a Union Pacific officer's special rolls by on the main, headed eas... (more)

At sunrise, a westbound UP pig train with back-to-back Centennials for power winds its way down No. 3 Track, which has a grade of 3.0 percent.

UP Centennial No. 6927 leans into the curve at Martinez Spur as it leads an eastbound manifest up Cajon's eastern slope.

for reasons that I do not remember, Union Pacifics hot LAZ is detouring over Santa Fe and has just been pulled backwards out of UP's East Los Angeles yard down the San Pedro Sub and is now heading... (more)

Union Pacific 6904 is the first in a long line of stored locomotives at Yermo Yard. The dry climate made for an excellent place to store locomotives. Photograph taken with permission.

A Union Pacific passenger special, run to commemorate the Idaho Statehood Centennial, zips east along the Salt Lake Sub at the Glovers Lane overpass in Farmington. The nine car train will be route... (more)

In those gas-guzzling, high horsepower-per-ton days of hotshot piggyback trains of the 1970's, this was the high-water mark of operation to Southern California on Union Paciifc: the westbound Supe... (more)

One of Union Pacific's iconic Centennials awaits minor repairs at North Yard prior to a return to service on the mainline. UP 6902's tenure would be short lived as it was retired from the active r... (more)

The unmistakable profile of a Union Pacific DDA40X glides through North Yard by the powerhouse in Salt Lake City. The 6923 was built by EMD for the UP in Dec. 1969, and would be traded back to EMD... (more)

Enjoying the High Life passengers aboard this Union Pacific passenger train are traveling in style and getting a great view of Puget Sound en-route to Seattle, WA.

The class unit herself 6900 with different font numbers, the first of 45 Centennials, has left Cheyenne and climbs eastward up Archer Hill, a favorite photo location on the elevated curve.

The corporate image of Union Pacific's might and power during the 1970s, half its fleet of stored DDA40X's returned to service for a short period in 1984 to cope with traffic increases. In one las... (more)

At appropriately named Joshua siding two UP Century DD40Xs almost have a westbound over Cima summit in California Mojave Desert between Las Vegas and Barstow.

Union Pacific DD-40X 6905 West crosses the Mojave River bridge at sunset after leaving the Yermo yard. Soon the train will switch onto the Santa Fe at Daggett and head up Cajon Pass.

Union Pacific's hottest westbound train, the Super Van, is stopped for a crew change at Milford, Utah. Two EMD DDA40X and a single SD40-2 'fast forty' will soon depart for the next crew change in ... (more)