UP Big Boy fulls a string of reefers over Sherman hill.

UP Big Blow turbine 29 just came off Sherman Hill and is coming into Cheyenne with two GP35's trailing in the consist.

UP's Big Blow as the name they were known for, runs up Dale junction on Sherman Hill with a freight in tow. Number 23 here is just ten months old. Photo by Richard R. Kindig.

UP's only coal turbine electric makes a test run as many officials look on. This locomotive was an experimental and didn't run very much as it was deemed a failure. A set of diesels was always in ... (more)

A mixed freight pulls into the Cedar Rapids station with farm supplies.

A Big Boy heads toward Hermosa on Sherman Hill with a long train. The train is running on the Harriman cut off which is now the number three track. This is the locomotive that is now on display at... (more)

A UP mail train pulled by a set of Alco PA's.

Big Boy 4019 leaves for Sherman Hill out of Cheyenne yard.

Big Boy 4015 rounds the curve at Harriman, on Sherman Hill.

A UP Big Boy hauling freight on Sherman Hill. Deemed the largest steam locomotive in the world, and envied by C&O Allegheny steam lovers.

Here is UP's experiment with a coal turbine. They turned a PA into a control unit and an ex GN W1 electric into a coal fired turbine. If I remember right the unit ran only in the summer of 1962. H... (more)

One of UP's doodlebugs on a local mixed train.

A UP Bullmoose helps out a trio of F units.

One of three Alco C855 built for the UP, two A's and one B. Here is one of them handling a train through Nebraska. These units put out 5500 hp versus EMD's and GE's offering of 5000 at the time. T... (more)

E8 925 was originally a C&NW E7 which was wrecked by UP in 1951 at Wyuta, Utah. UP then purchased it and sent it back to EMD for rebuilding. UP sold this engine to the Rock Island in 1969. Here it... (more)