Two GE U50’s, 31 and 33, hustle a westbound UP freight through North Topeka, Ks. on August 22, 1965. Note the passenger car in the small car shop at right.

Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and ‘35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)

Storming Archer Hill in a March snowstorm about to become a blizzard, U50 32 and a pair of GP30B’s head an extra out of Cheyenne for North Platte. Less than a year old in 1964, all three engines... (more)

An SDP35, GP9B, U50, GP30 run by with what looks like a turbo fire in the U50. Flames are visible behind the cab. No photographer name on slide.

A pair of U50's and a GP30B doing a good speed through Devil's Slide. Photo taken by Richard Kindig.

Here a U50 sits at Council Bluffs and it sure looks like it's seen better days. Photo taken by George Cockle.

UP GE U50s 31 and 33 lead 40-ft. box cars west out of Topeka, Ks. at Menoken Jct. in pouring rain and head to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.

Two UP U-50's, a GP-7B and another Geep are in the siding at Aikins, Kansas to meet an eastbound, headed for Kansas City while Nos. 45 and 43 are going to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.,... (more)

Two U.P. U-50s, 43 and 44 as well as a GP-30, bring a westbound freight through North Topeka, Kansas on May 23, 1965.

On November 25th, 1976, one third of Southern Pacific's big EMD and GE diesels are serviced at the railroad's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California. The Espee owned three U50s (represented here ... (more)

UP U50s #38 and 47 bracket GP20B #302B on an eastbound freight at Bailey Yard in North Platte on August 29, 1969.

One of SP' U50's sits on the sevice track at SP's LA area Taylor Yard engine facility. In their last years these units were used in "hauler" service between Taylor yard and West Colton in S. Calif... (more)

UP U50s #38 and 47 bracket GP20B #302B on an eastbound freight at Bailey Yard in North Platte on August 29, 1969.

Like a beached whale being picked apart by scavengers, one of Southern Pacific's three huge U50 diesels is dismantled at a scrapper at Pacific Terminals scrap yard in Long Beach, California. "Born... (more)

A "Baby Huey" in the Bull Ring... One of eSPee's three dual-engined U50s awaits its fate in the "Boneyard" section of the Bull Ring. It was delivered as #8502 in June of 1964 and retired in Januar... (more)