Union Pacific GE U-50's 46 and 50 along with two GP9's are being serviced at the Omaha shops. The end is near for the three ALCO switchers in the yard. Photo by Ken Crist, from my slide collecti... (more)

Long bumped from the hot intermodal service for which it was built, BNSF Dash 8-40BW 556 (ex-Santa Fe 556) is working with BNSF GP30 2828 (ex-Burlington Northern 2828, ex-BN GP30 2219, née-Chicag... (more)

After an employee's only event, UP 1979 was moved to the display area at Home Plate.

CEO Lance Fritz addresses the crowd at an employees only event in Omaha featuring UP 1979.

UP 6941 sits with MKT 213 and other various UP locomotives at the Union Pacific Omaha diesel shops. There were also Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific diesels at the shops, as well as the UP 951 E... (more)

The Powder River coal boom resulted in many cooperative arrangements between companies that were more typically competitors, as illustrated by this scene of BN and C&NW power being combined at the... (more)

A spotless rebuilt SW9 tows biz car 101 toward the Mississippi River and Council Bluffs beyond. 101 is the oldest car in the fleet, but now wears name 'Selma'.

That caboose is pristine, as is the SW14 up front, but biz car 101 - perhaps fresh from being refurbished - is the star. Built by Pullman in 1912, I believe it was renumbered a couple times, then... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest is about to enjoy its brief trackage rights on the Union Pacific in Omaha.

Chicago Great Western F7(A) 156 and CB&Q E8(A) 9942B at CB&Q's Omaha Passenger Station in August 1964. A Lloyd Keyser Photo from my Collection.

Union Pacific special trains have run with many different diesel engines leading over the years but nothing ever looked better than the A-B-A set of E's on the head end. An example is this Union P... (more)

A pair of Oakway units are on an empty Burlington Northern coal train as it begins the climb out of downtown Omaha.

Union Pacific inspection special IVBCB passes Tower B and also by the rear end of BN's Bayard local.

Looking west from 12th St, it's roughly 7pm on a summer evening as UP's YCB78 job shoves towards the Omaha World Herald dock to pull empties before spotting the loaded newsprint to the dock on Cap... (more)