Western Pacific F7A type diesel locomotive #913 on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, CA. My wife & I visited the museum as part of a trip from Buffalo to Sacramento (o... (more)

The California Zephyr eases to a stop on 3rd Street, ending its 2,525 mile journey as families await the arrival of loved ones, excited children and other bystanders watch the event, most of them ... (more)

In a view from California highway 70, the westbound 16-car California Zephyr wraps around the hill at James, a few miles short of Oroville, where a crew and power change will take place.

A Western Pacific bay window caboose trails Union Pacific's SCPV into Provo Yard on Aug. 21, 1983. WP 452 was built by International Car for the WP in 1956 and was retired from service on the UP i... (more)

More than three years after the Union Pacific and Western Pacific merger, 13 former WP EMDs rust away near Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.

The Western Pacific Railroad acquired three SW1500s from EMD in May 1973. The 1503 served well into the UP merger, becoming the UP 1503, the UP 1317, and finally the UPY 1042 prior to retirement a... (more)

Western Pacific caboose 457 is pictured in new paint recently applied by the Union Pacific and assigned to work the Elko, Nevada wrecker in 1984. It was built new for the WP by International Car i... (more)

Happiness is finding a new Western Pacific GP40-2 in your hometown! The 3554 was built new by EMD for the WP in April 1980, from the carrier's final batch of new locomotives prior to merging with ... (more)

Western Pacific derrick 79 finds itself in Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City on Feb. 29, 1984. Any information regarding the builder of the WPMW 79 and its disposition would be highly a... (more)

Soon after the 1983 UP-WP merger, Western Pacific locomotives were scattered throughout the UP system. WP 3019, a Boise rebuilt EMD GP35, works the morning switch job in the joint UP/Utah Railway ... (more)

Photographed on Kodachrome more than two years after America's Bicentennial celebration, WP 1776 awaits servicing at D&RGW's Roper Diesel Shop in South Salt Lake. GP40 1776 was built the WP 3540 b... (more)

A workman has just finished washing recently delivered GE U23B No. 2258, and it gleams in the afternoon sun as water still drips off it.

Western Pacific GE 3055 has a lot of assistance from BN units as they tug an eastbound train up the Feather River at Pulga, Calif. on June 22, 1974. In the consist headed for Klamath Falls, Orego... (more)

2nd to last California Zephyr arriving at Marysville.

The 'last WP unit', 3559 was the highest number GP40-2, the last power ordered by the WP. Norhtbound on the Highline with a BN train to be interchanged at Bieber, CA, this line ran through some gr... (more)