UP turbines 14 & 16 A units are parked at Salt Lake City near the Union Pacific station. No. 14 was built in March 1960 and No. 16 was built in June 1960. Both were retired in February 1970 after ... (more)

UP 26 sitting near the Ogden Union Station approximately 20 years after retirement and now part of the Utah State Railroad Museum.

Union Pacific GTEL turbine X-18 basks in evening sun on a display track at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Blowing downhill

UP "Big Blow" Gas Turbine 18 sits on display at the Illinois Railway Museum, two of these engines still survive, one in Ogden, UT and this one in Union, IL

One of the two remaining gas turbine locomotives sit on display with UP 6936.

Part of Illinois Railway Museum's 60th anniversary was prominently displaying one of the two remaining gas turbine locomotives. Built in 1960, placed out of service in 1970.

It's quite the lineup at the west wye. UP 18, one of two surviving GTEL 8500 gas turbine electric locos and UP DDA40X 6936, the largest operational diesel-electric loco in the world, take in the s... (more)

Cabception. Looking through the windshield of being-scrapped UP 8 into the innards of UP 7 of a similar fate. Photo by Jim.

Front end detail of UP turbine #15 resting at Cheyenne, WY on June 1, 1968.

UP turbine set #15 resting at Cheyenne, WY on June 1, 1968

UP turbine #21 at the shop complex in Cheyenne alongside Frisco GP35 #708 || June 1968

UP turbine 28 is on the shop track at Cheyenne while 8444 is taking on oil in preparation for a fan trip to Yoder, WY on June 1, 1968. The trip originated in Denver and 8444 pulled the train to Ch... (more)

One of the two surviving GTEL 8500 gas-turbine electric locomotives, UP 18.

An awesome sight seeing one of these work Sherman Hill ...