Having topped 7440 ft. Soldier Summit, a Union Pacific engineering special heads east toward a crew change at Helper, Utah. With an unusually wet and cool spring season, the summer wildflowers are... (more)
A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails at Gilluly. Maintenance of Way personnel are rebuilding main track 2 from Rio to Lynn and... (more)
A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. This sharp curve at milepost 673.75 was a... (more)
A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails at CP RG677, Rio. Passing 'monsoon' moisture from the southwest has left behind a few clo... (more)
A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails near the ghost town of Thistle, Utah. The 6936, an EMD DDA40X is iconic to the UP, and lo... (more)
UP's DD40X and Rio Grande Heritage unit lead an engineering special northbound on the Omaha Sub past flooded farm fields from the over flowing Missouri River at Crescent Iowa.
UP 6904, RI 349,347,351,279 head east out of North Platte with 109 cars at 1:40PM. The Rock was on it's last legs at the time but still rated a run through job with UP out of Council Bluffs. The b... (more)
UP 6922 sits under a beautiful blue Summer sky in North Platte...
one of UP's hot van trains was changing crews in Yermo, CA
UP 6936 races across the flat desert at Ferrum with a inspection special.
After a day of heavy rain, the sun comes out to illuminate the largest operatable diesel in the country, on display for Railroad Daze.
Union Pacific's DD40X 6938 stands guard at the front of the Jenks Locomotive Facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas
A westbound Van east of Summit in Cajon Pass
UP 6936 and the other locomotives and cars on display for Franklin Park Railroad Daze are waiting for clearance back into Canadian Pacific's diesel facility. It appears from the exhaust that CP... (more)
UP 6936, the one and only, operational DD40X, sits on display at Franklin Park Railroad Daze.
