For a couple years, UP deployed their E-units with the Centennial for the (then) annual Denver Post Frontier Days special. Here, the train is about 10 minutes from departure north.
Three Wishes I had three wishes and I got all three, Aspen Leaves in Fall splendor, Mountains in purple majesty, and that golden specular highlight high country Fall light. P... (more)
Union Pacific A-B-A E9s power a UP OCS (office car special) westbound on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision as they smoke it up fighting the constant grade and are approaching Tunnel ... (more)
While not pulled by the customary steam, this edition of the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days Special looked pretty spectacular.
UP's E-units didn't make a lot of trips to Wisconsin, so you did what you could to shoot them when they did make an appearance, even if it was after the sun had set. Here they are westbound at Oak... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific OCS (Office Car Special) operating for the Board of Directors follows the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff between Bond and Dell, Colorado, on September 28, 2000.
Tribute. In an event that attracted railfans from around the country, Union Pacific Railroad 1943 (Veterans Tribute, SD70AH) lead a office car special on May 31, 2018 (operating as Norfolk ... (more)
Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 1943 leads a westbound passenger train (office car special) on UP’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel route west of Rocky, Colorado, on August 21, 2019.
UP's business train passes through Gaviota in the late evening on a trip up the Coast Line.
Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E9s are fresh from a rebuild at VMV in Paducah, Kentucky. The train departed Paducah in the morning of April 26, 1993, and headed up the Illinois Central main line t... (more)
I can only imagine how fast they were going here. The stretch between Stockton and Faust on the Lynndyl Subdivision is flat and strait, a real race track. Not sure if the passenger speed in the la... (more)
Passenger special to Sweetwater TX
A Union Pacific excursion train rolls through the Columbia River Gorge. The train was returning from an overnight trip to Bend.
UP 1111 leads a northbound passenger special through Santa Margarita
