The great onslaught of SD70Ms had not yet replaced the SD40 generation in this scene from early 2000 as a then typical brace of SD40-2s leads a North Platte to Pocatello manifest out the Sidney Su... (more)

Through the bleak landscape of a winter afternoon, UP 8305 leads a former MKT SD40-2 with a North Platte-bound manifest, about to pass beneath US Route 30 in Logan, IA. Ektachrome.

In the south eastern corner of Wyoming is a abrupt escarpment of sandstone and rock that rises from the farmland along the Platte River to the high plains. The Union Pacific's Yoder subdivision ... (more)

UP 3691 leads a manifest through Rainbow Canyon, Nevada, in October 2000.

Running left-handed like a C&NW locomotive should, a Canal Street (Chgo.)-Oakland Z train is smoking out the Sidney Sub. At this time the railroad was handling about 75 daily trains, and this was ... (more)

For a couple of years UP experimented with using fuel "tenders" to reduce fueling stops. Four tank cars were modified and ran between two unit sets. The program did not succeed as the fo... (more)

Bringing up the markers on a Union Pacific freight is CA-8 class caboose 25513. (Verdemont, California - April 1980

Thunderstorms are building over the high plains as a westbound double-stack outfit sails through Julesburg, Coilorado on a summer evening. The lead unit has not quite given up upon its C&NW herita... (more)

Former C&NW SD40-2 No. 6817 now wears a UP shield as it leads another former C&NW SD down the Boyer River valley, about to pass beneath the US 30 overhead bridge in Logan, IA. Only recently had th... (more)

If bleak it is nevertheless a relatively mild winter day as a double-stack train gets underway after a crew change in Missouri Valley, IA.

UP 1989 leads loaded coke train ORPIK down Knapp Hill.

Today at Cajon Summit, with the addition of the third BNSF track, it is much easier to see three trains passing each other at the same time, but back in 1982 it was much more difficult. Here UP 3... (more)

Snaking its way through the may curves between Rowen and Woodford, including a horseshoe curve, UP 8132 leads a heavy manifest bound for West Colton up Tehachapi. The head-end power and a number o... (more)

Shortly before the bottom fell out of the economy, never to fully return insofar as rail traffic, UP 4668 has re-crewed and is preparing to head for North Platte.

UP 7074 West has a relatively short string of reefers as it clears the control point at CP49, Best, on a summer afternoon. Descendants of the once ubiquitous orange Pacific Fruit Express ice bunke... (more)