Out of Portola early in the morning, the Feather River Special glides westward along the river.

Besides along Lincoln Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., where else do trains run so fast so close to private homes? Here was former UP E9 No. 912 racing Amtrak Train 770 at maximum authorized speed o... (more)

Parked my car in downtown Cheyenne hoping to take a shot of the nice old station, surprised to see a bus that says "Union Pacific Shop Tour," get on said bus and I go from never seeing any of UP's... (more)

Union Pacific's Old Timer's Special receives a little TLC prior to departure from Ogden Union Station. The UP 951 was painted in 'Preamble Express' livery for the American Freedom Train that toure... (more)

A ten car Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City officers special glides downgrade through Gilluly the evening on June 20, 2000.

A Union Pacific Operation Life Saver Passenger train rolls through the high country north of P-Burg on the ex-DRGW Craig Branch with 3 E-Units in push-pull configuration. It was a beautiful day fo... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger special coast downgrade along the Price River approaching Kyune.

A Union Pacific passenger special takes a tour of the former Rio Grande on the big Soldier Creek fill at Gilluly.

A Salt Lake City, Utah to Cheyenne, Wyoming UP passenger special takes the scenic route home via the D&RGW mainline. The UP 963B was coughing up plenty of exhaust on its eastward journey through t... (more)

Welcome to Coal Country! Union Pacific's classic E9s lead a passenger special west through Price Canyon near the Willow Creek coal mine at Castle Gate, Utah.

A Union Pacific Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City passenger special snakes through Price Canyon on the former D&RGW mainline to Soldier Summit.

A Union Pacific passenger special tackles the climb to Boulter Summit just west of Pehrson, Utah.

A westbound commuter train speeds through Berwyn, Illinois, in a panned photograph made on December 23, 1988. This Metra train is led by venerable Burlington Northern E9A No. 9907, originally buil... (more)

The blue-winged Union Pacific logo wraps around the glossy nose of E9A No. 949 inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013. In the background is sister locomotive No. 951. Out of th... (more)

Inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013, Union Pacific’s two E9As wait for another season of pulling passenger trains. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sen... (more)