The profile is classic USRA but that fat stack says Union Pacific. Some 625 light 2-8-2’s were turned out for American railroads under control of the United States Railroad Administration during... (more)

Who else but Union Pacific could routinely muster 15,750-hp on the head end, and do it with only three units? On March 19, 1966, 8,500-hp turbine 19, a 2250-hp GP30, and a 5,000-hp DD35B are past... (more)

Union Pacific’s 10 SDP35s were originally ordered to replace aging E-units in passenger service, and they did, briefly. But by March 19, 1966, just six months after delivery, the 2500-hp units c... (more)

Wyoming’s ever-present wind drags Union Pacific 28’s exhaust across the prairie east of Laramie as the 8500-hp turbine single-handedly muscles a drag up the approach to Sherman Hill, March 19,... (more)

On April 8, 1966, a matched set of GP30s and GP30Bs sweep under the north-south runway at Denver’s Stapleton Airport with the KCLAX, UP’s Kansas City-Los Angeles hotshot. The train has been ru... (more)

Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and ‘35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)

With Denver’s skyline and the front range of the Rockies in the background, DD35A 79 is accelerating at East 88th Avenue on April 16, 1966, on its way to Wyoming and points west. The train, Kans... (more)

DD35A 83 is still climbing March 19, 1966, at it leans to the curve at the east end of Hermosa and begins the approach to the twin bores at Hermosa Tunnel and the summit of Sherman Hill. Together ... (more)

You had to stand at trackside to get the full effect: Union Pacific’s final class of turbines, the 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 Big Blows, were BIG, almost 166 feet long overall, 16 feet tall. And lo... (more)

Afternoon storm clouds are gathering as Union Pacific turbine 18 climbs Archer Hill out of Cheyenne with an eastbound extra. On June 22, 1965 the big blow is half way through its life on UP. One o... (more)

The presence of a company photographer, officials, and other supernumeraries tells us this is no ordinary train parked at Tenneco north of Denver. In mid-June, 1965, UP has dispatched a special fr... (more)

Coming and going at Cheyenne’s west end, outbound 8500-hp GE turbine 15 encounters an arriving extra behind GP35 749, two DD35Bs and a DD35A, a 17,500-hp combination. Union Pacific likes to do t... (more)

Three weeks into spring, winter still blankets the right-of-way along Colorado’s Joint Line as Fort Worth and Denver 751-A rumbles through Louviers, a few miles south of Denver. On April 15, 196... (more)

The curve at Palmer Lake had been a favorite with railroad photographers for decades, all the more so this June 27,1965, as traffic returns to the Joint Line after a massive series of floods wiped... (more)

The dwarf signal tells us that we are alongside Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at Union Station, where nameless Train 15, formerly the Kansas City Rocket, is just rolling in from Minneapolis-... (more)