This day that began with me watching the migrating Sandhill Cranes in 27ºF (-2.77ºC) predawn darkness, to photographing this Union Pacific westbound in 77ºF (25ºC) sun – a span of 50º (22.2... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific Railroad SD70Ms (4010 and, with flared radiators, 3903), split the signals are milepost 552.8 on UP's Yuma Sub as they haul their 9-car train westward to West Colton Yard. ... (more)

A Three-Fer…!

A pair of westbound intermodal trains, one from Union Pacific and another from BNSF Railway, sit on the Alameda Corridor awaiting clearance to proceed down... (more)

Crossing the Mojave River on one of the BNSF Railway’s two through truss bridges spanning it is a Union Pacific intermodal freight with ES44AC 5425 and SD70M 4491. Union Pacific has trackage ri... (more)

The power on a westbound Union Pacific freight has just cut off its train after arriving at UP's Dolores Yard. None of these locomotives are UP's: HLCX SD40 6401, CSXT SD60 8712 and, seen here, ... (more)

The engineer on a westbound Union Pacific freight waves to the conductor of a UP local who is performing a "roll by" inspection as the freight passes through the Mojave Desert behind SP ... (more)

A crew member on a westbound Union Pacific loaded coal train stands ready to inspect the upcoming eastbound Amtrak train it is meeting at Cajon, in the heart of southern California's Cajon Pass. ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight, led by UP SD40-2 3376, waits as it meets an eastbound Union Pacific freight with Chicago & North Western GP50 5091 on the headend, on UP’s busy Kearney Sub. A... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific piggyback train descends Cajon Pass headed for Los Angeles behind SD40 3111, DD35B 93B, DD35B 85B and a GP30B. (Cajon Pass, California – November 25, 1973)

As Union Pacific SD40M-2 2725 (ex-SP 8649, ex-MK 959, née-CNW SD45 959) and UP GP40M-2 1533 (ex-SP 7298, née-MKT GP40 175) switch intermodal cars at the railroad's ICTF, a westbound UP intermoda... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train rolls into East Yard, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles. A pair of General Electric-built diesels are pulling this train: C30-7 2439 and B23-7 182.
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Beginning its assault on Beaumont Hill is a westbound Union Pacific train, behind SD70M 4243 and Dash 8-40CW 9449, SD70 4224, SD70M 4xxx and SD60 2179 (with UP SD60M 2482 and SD40T-2 2941 [ex-SP 8... (more)

The fifteen-stall Lenzen Roundhouse was originally built in 1899 to serve the standard gauge San Jose-San Francisco rail commuter line and the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, replacing ... (more)

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)

Rolling past the old Santa Fe passenger station in Barstow in a westbound Union Pacific freight, led by DDA40X 6912, SD40-2 8038 and DDA40X 6931. This train hopped on to the Santa Fe's Los Angeles... (more)