Happy 150th North Little Rock! I have held my tongue long enough! This project to get the UP 6938 repainted started a month ago. They had to use heavy equipment usually seen in action at derailmen... (more)

Union Pacific 6938 on display in front of the Jenks Shops.

A severe thunderstorm has moved off to the east, but the lightning continues to illuminate the sky over the Union Pacific Jenks shops and the impressive DD40X UP 6938 that is on display.

Lighting streaks over the top of DD40X UP 6938 as a severe thunderstorm clears North Little Rock and heads east. UP 6938 is on display in front of the Union Pacific Jenks Locomotive Shops.

UP 6936 still looks in good shape, but sister UP 6932 has seen better days as they both soak in the sun in Yermo, California. The rest of the stored DD40s can be seen in the distance to the left ... (more)

Westbound UP train on Santa Fe approaching Frost station.

Westbound UP hotshot entering Santa Fe trackage rights at Daggett, CA.

The Jacks Were Back when the grips of the early 1980's recession finally lifted and western railroads found themselves short on power. The issue was magnified when steamship lines started shippin... (more)

Run-through freight (CNW train 252, The Rocket) has just arrived from North Platte with UP 6907 leading. UP pulled 6907 and two GP38-2s off leaving CNW 6802 to head the train to Chicago. The UP li... (more)

This was the only time that UP's big Centennial ever visited the Twin Ports. It was powering an engineering inspection train and came up from St. Paul over BNSF and went south into Wisconsin over ... (more)

Two UP Century DD40A-X's are assisted by an SD24B and a GP30 up Cajon grade at Devore, Calif. on April 30, 1976. UP operates on AT&SF (new BNSF) trackage rights over Cajon Summit all the way to D... (more)

One of Union Pacific's famous DDA40X giants is on display at the appropriately named Rail Giants Museum. Parked across from Big Boy 4014 for a couple decades now, it's about to get a new stablemat... (more)

A eastbound Union Pacific Van seen just east of Cajon Pass summit on a hazy morning in the pass.

Power-starved UP had to pull everything off the shelves in the spring of 1984 and for a few months Centennials were back in service. Those few months were good ones for Kodak.