Union Pacific E-9 #949 makes a rare appearance out on the mainline as it tows passenger car Howard Fogg and is seen here accelerating over the South switch at La Salle.

Normally stored at the UP Steam Shop and Roundhouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming, UP 949, one of three E9's left on the UP roster lead a test train down the Greeley Sub in Brighton, Colorado. They will ho... (more)

Wayback Machine Time! This is what it must have looked like in the early 1970's at the UP North Yard in Denver - an E9A waiting for service and a MP15DC doing yard duty. UP 949 looks great even ... (more)

After meeting the Denver, Colorado to Green River, Wyoming manifest at Brighton, the "Test" train led by UP E9A no. 949 races along US-HWY 85 near Henderson, Colorado. What I assume is t... (more)

The blue-winged Union Pacific logo wraps around the glossy nose of E9A No. 949 inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013. In the background is sister locomotive No. 951. Out of th... (more)

Inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013, Union Pacific’s two E9As wait for another season of pulling passenger trains. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sen... (more)

On a rare move, Union Pacific's Aksarben train is southbound on the Falls City Sub crossing the drought striken Platte River in Plattsmouth Nebraska.

The A-B-A set of E9's goes through a bit of load testing at the shops before being sent out with the 844 to North Platte where they would be cut off.

Union Pacific's executive passenger train pulled by a A-B-A set of E-Units curves through Tunnel 29 and smokes its way toward Pinecliffe, Colorado.

UP's E9s depart San Antonio for Houston on the famed Sunset Route. Photo taken on the restored Hays St. Bridge which now affords pedestrians and bicyclists a nice view of the San Antonio skyline ... (more)

UP's E9s pinch hit for the injured 844 as they cross the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, TX. In just a minute, they will make a whistlestop at the local railroad museum. Only minutes after thi... (more)

The SMESH-14, led by UP 949, is seen passing through the town of Fordyce, AR while on its way to Shreveport, LA.

UP Special is going past the former SP station that is now a Mexican restaurant. The Phoenix Metro light rail tracks are to the right.

UP Special is going around the west leg of the wye at Picacho, Arizona showing off the newly completed double tracking project here.

As a KCS Crew gets ready to take their grain train from the CP south, UP Train SCBSP 21 cools its heels waiting on the outbound crew to show up at around 0230 in the morning at Air Line Jct.