UP's E units leading an officer's special down Cajon Pass on my birthday on March 14, 1999. It was a pleasant surprise for me since I didn't know they were running that day.

An early UP passenger train leaves Denver, probably for Omaha.

UP's infamous coal turbine basks in the sun at Coucil Bluffs, Iowa. This locomotive operated from September 1962 through July 1963. It was operated between Council Bluffs, Iowa and North Platte, a... (more)

UP's Southern Pacific Heritage Locomotive #1996 leads Norfolk Southern Train 28J eastbound through Bremen, GA. on their way to Atlanta, GA.

A Union Pacific Officer Special runs towards the evening sun as it gets ready to enter the Moffat Tunnel at Tolland, Colorado.

Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

6000 Horsepower SD90MAC-H II 8525. They had a short life. I'm glad I made the effort to catch them. Second unit is a GE 6000 horsepower unit AC6000CW 7551. At least on these, the locomotives survi... (more)

OLATHE KS March 10 1979 — UP U30C 2959 leads a mixed freight. Note someone cleaned select characters on the nose. Maybe no connection but Wikipedia records, “U-29 was responsible for sinking t... (more)

COUNCIL BLUFFS IA Sept 28 1979 — UP U30C 2955 awaits an assignment. GE built the unit (b/n 40960) in October 1976. Utahrails.net records that the 2955 “was the last U30C on UP, retired on 19 S... (more)

A short passenger special of deadhead equipment is returning to Cheyenne, WY on a summer afternoon. The train has crossed the Loup River in Columbus, NE and is seen at MP 84.5 as it enters a stret... (more)

Freshly painted "snoot" and a nicely clean partner wheel and freight thru the north central Lone Star State. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection.

Lost among the ridiculous number of SD40-2s were a group of much more likable units.

Before the SD70Ms started coming on line with the expansive UP wings on their nose, the little postage stamp shield predominated for some time. UP's new nose treatment is similarly (and appropriat... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific GE Locomotives lead Norfolk Southern Train 246 eastbound through the curves at Douglasville, GA.

Norfolk Southern Train 246 heads eastbound through John Allen Road just to the east of Bremen, GA.