UP's Operation Lifesaver Special is en route from Sheldon to Mason City, Iowa, passing the old junction with the Omaha Road Branch to Sioux Falls, S.D. at Org.

Holy smoke! The UP Operation Lifesaver Train is halted in Chippewa Falls, Wis. as the crew works to extinguish the fire on 949.

UP E9A 949 heads an Operation Lifesaver Special making a round trip from Sheldon to Le Mars, Iowa on the old "Omaha Road." At one time C&NW E8s led the St. Paul to Omaha "North American" along thi... (more)

Departure. The 11:00 AM OLS special leaves Adams for Necedah.

The 9:00AM departure from Adams returns to Adams after making a stop and switching ends at Necedah.

A UP Operation Livesaver train with E9 949 on the south end and UP B-unit 963 plus A unit 951 on the back begins its trip back north splitting the signals on the old MoPac line in Momence near the... (more)

We got ahead of the special due to his stop in Chicago Heights....so we decided to head south for one last shot.....thanks to Paul Burgess for sorta showing us this shot.....

Its not everyday that you get to go back in the future. UP's OLS Special heads south through historic 21st St. Junction.....

UP's OLS Special passes over the Eisenhower Expressway southbound....

The UP Operation Lifesaver special coming around the 'Y' from BNSF's Union Ave. "B" plant, and entering Amtrak track 5 southbound on its way to Momence, IL.

UP's Operation Lifesaver Special enjoys a beautiful night in Chicago before a trip down the MoPac in the morning.

UP woos former CNW employees with this employee special.

On its way up from St. Louis, headed back to Council Bluffs, the officer's special winds its way around the Y at Canal St., past the new condo/lofts, and into Global One.

A year before they gagged trying to swallow the CNW, UP's business train makes an incursion nearing Clinton, IA on a bone-chilling January afternoon.