The UP Steam Crew poses on the Big Boy after speeches by then-CEO Lance Fritz and former Utah Governor Gary Herbert at the Spike150 Ceremony in Ogden.

UP #844 waits for the Big Boy to roll in to begin the Spike150 Celebration outside Ogden Station in Utah. This ceremony commemorated the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Pro... (more)

This is a display of big power stationned at the railroad museum in Ogden.

Westbound Utah Central train on a quite Saturday afternoon.

Patriot Rail 1010 in fresh paint awaiting it's move to Colorado.

D&RGW train number 1, the Scenic Limited, is seen at Ogden Utah on July 30th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Electro-Motive Division built a total of 2,222 GP38-2s for 59 railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, making the model a best seller. Several hundred of them were customized to railroad specific... (more)

Union Pacific restored Big Boy #4014 as a PR tool for the railroad. As this view during a Spike 150 event shows, mission accomplished!

Quiet Saturday for the bomb pop train.

“Madame Queen” the diesel-devotees called her - or the “Queen Mary,” she was SF-1, under her original EMD (General Motors) serial number 744 of December 1937. She was 1800 horsepower, and ... (more)

Utah Central and Utah Railway power rest in the UCRY yard.

UP E9 939 and sisters have been relegated to MOW service on this cold winter early 1970s day in Ogden, UT. Kodachrome, Photographer: Keith Ardinger, John E. Troxler Collection

In 1954 UP took delivery of 15 more 4500-hp turbines numbered 61-75, made distinctive by their recessed carbody for an external walkway called "veranda" style, and their four-truck arra... (more)

Morning lineup outside the Ogden UP diesel shop, a GE Gas-Turbine 21, EMD E8(A) 629, GE U28C 2905 and EMD DD35A 78 on this September 07, 1966 view. Unknown photographer photo, from my slide coll... (more)