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.

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)

The mighty Cheyenne Frontier Days special is about to roll into the depot in minutes.

2015's version of the Cheyenne Frontier Days/Denver Post special looked like this, arriving in town with revenue freight right along with it. A pretty fluid operation up there.

Union Pacific’s shiny A-B-A set of EMD E9s power a passenger special into Grimsby, Illinois, on April 26, 1993, just after completion of a complete rebuild at Paducah, Kentucky.

After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)

Photo taken at night of the UP "Pacific Northwest Special" from Council Bluffs to a series of public relations stops in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

Photo taken at sunset from the dome car "Walter Dean" looking forward at an E9 A-B-A engine consist leading the UP "Pacific Northwest Special" from Council Bluffs to a series o... (more)

Entering Illinois from Kentucky, a Union Pacific passenger train led by three freshly-rebuilt E9 A-B-A cab units, crosses the enormous Illinois Central bridge over the Ohio River at Metropolis on ... (more)

For a couple years, UP deployed their E-units with the Centennial for the (then) annual Denver Post Frontier Days special. Here, the train is about 10 minutes from departure north.

Union Pacific A-B-A E9s power a UP OCS (office car special) westbound on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision as they smoke it up fighting the constant grade and are approaching Tunnel ... (more)

While not pulled by the customary steam, this edition of the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days Special looked pretty spectacular.

UP's E-units didn't make a lot of trips to Wisconsin, so you did what you could to shoot them when they did make an appearance, even if it was after the sun had set. Here they are westbound at Oak... (more)

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E9s are fresh from a rebuild at VMV in Paducah, Kentucky. The train departed Paducah in the morning of April 26, 1993, and headed up the Illinois Central main line t... (more)

UP 951, in it's Preamble Express paint scheme. Heads eastbound up Weber Canyon. Tom Ellis photo.