Amtrak's westbound Sunset Limited crossing Southern Pacific's huge Pecos River Bridge (largest bridge in Texas!). Train was running 2 hours 30 minutes late. Train operated tri-weekly. You have to... (more)

UP Vice President, Engineering, W. E Wimmer, inspected ex-D&RGW line from Denver into Utah during his system marathon inspection trips. Mr. Wimmer tours the UP system yearly using 6936 when availa... (more)

Amtrak 59 still lettered for Washington Terminal passes Washington Union Station tower.

Snowed under - 32-inch snowfall - from Dec 29-30, 2006 blizzard. UP Salina to Limon Subd crew change point was paralyzed. UP rotary 900082 (UP 7211 East) found this scene. UP 6653 West buried afte... (more)

Only switcher in red and yellow - others now painted blue and silver. 996 works former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR main now owned by Union Pacific. Line will be upgraded in coming years to h... (more)

Omnitrax Switching Service (OSS) 4285 and SD9 4327 passed ex-ATSF 428 division superintendents 52-foot long business car (Pullman built April 1925) now owned by John Birmingham. He owns several pa... (more)

Ex-Milwaukee Road parlour car CEDAR RAPIDS, lounge WISCONSIN VALLEY and Super Dome 53 dive into UP/ex-D&RGW 6.2-mile long Moffat Tunnel under the Colorado Rockies. Cars headed for NRHS Portland, O... (more)

17th Street and Wynkoop Street side of Denver Union Station is lite for the 2004 Holiday Season. The clock shows 7:00 PM, but wasn't working since it was around 11:00 PM. This Denver landmark con... (more)

Smoking up the fields climbing a grade were Kyle 4264, 4262, 4252 and 4255. Units all ex-BN, eex-SP&S. Line is former Rock Island line to Limon, CO.

Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr had GP40X 9003. Amtrak F40PH 234 on Pioneer. DRGW was still operating the Rio Grande Zephyr in Colorado to SLC, but only for a few more days.

UP 844 with E-units 949 & 951 deadheaded 20-car Cheyenne Frontier Days Train from Cheyenne to Denver. Station was busy with UP train (two tracks) and Ansco Summer Ski Train on track two.

The Ski Train was using UP owned, DRGW numbered units in 1996. A late Amtrak train 6, The CZ, had P32-8BWH 509 Pepsi Can that cold evening.

Rocket Boosters from Ogden, UT, area head east on UP's Limon Subdivision. Old UP Strasburg depot is seen above train at town's museum.

4633 was coupled to newly acquired (rebuilt NRE Jan. 2004) USAX 4653 to work railhead (Ft Carson rail yard). Equipment returning from Iraq needed switching at unloading docks.

The Union Pacific's main line across southern Wyoming experienced a lull as thunderstorm rumbled south of this bustling city. Rock Springs is getting numerous loads of 24-inch natural gas pipe.