The fifteen-stall Lenzen Roundhouse was originally built in 1899 to serve the standard gauge San Jose-San Francisco rail commuter line and the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, replacing ... (more)

Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)

Rolling past the old Santa Fe passenger station in Barstow in a westbound Union Pacific freight, led by DDA40X 6912, SD40-2 8038 and DDA40X 6931. This train hopped on to the Santa Fe's Los Angeles... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Railway freight crosses the Kansas River on the upper deck of the Highline Bridge. UP ES44ACs 8018 and 7399 (with a third ES44AC, 7464, as the rear DPU) is crossing from... (more)

Union Pacific DD35A 70 is teamed with an SD40-2 and two SD40s to bring a freight into Los Angeles. (Pomona, California – July 20, 1975)

Union Pacific SD40-2 3786 leads another SD40-2 and a U30C – a typical locomotive lash-up in the 1980s – on a westbound freight heading for Los Angeles. (Hesperia, California – December 6, 19... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific train descends Cajon Pass behind UP C30-7 2449, SD40-2 3377 and another SD40-2 on its way to Los Angeles. This piggyback train is traveling on the original 1885-built li... (more)

It is 4:40 pm (16:40) and, as happens so often in the Midwest, a thunderstorm is blowing into town. The first band of rain has let up as a trio of Union Pacific AC4400CWs (5921, 6807 and 6789) pu... (more)

To commemorate the Union Pacific employees who were also active military reservists, UP painted SD40-2 3593 (ex-UP 8084) into this distinctive camouflage scheme. A plaque listing all sixty-six of... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a Union Pacific weed abatement train is car Habco International car 214. HABX 214's heritage is fairly obvious, although the specific car is hard to pin down. This car, w... (more)

The Union Pacific's Anaheim Branch was in need of a little weed abatement, and the railroad sent a weed sprayer down to Anaheim and back to spray some weed killer along the right-of-way. The trai... (more)

An interesting freight train travels west on the Union Pacific’s Kearney Sub behind UP SD40-2 3345. (Gothenburg, Nebraska – August 20, 1987)

A heavy snowfall hit the mountains of southern California on January 28, 1979. Snow was falling in much of the San Gabriel Valley (I saw flakes falling in Pomona) and in the city of San Bernardin... (more)

Union Pacific GP50 5517, the former Chicago & North Western 5060; leads a westbound intermodal train at Dominguez Junction on UP’s Basin Subdivision. Behind the 5517 is C30-7 419 (ex-UP 2419) a... (more)

A quintet of Union Pacific SD40s and SD40-2s drag a unit train of export coal across the Southern Pacific at Colton Crossing in the late 1970s, not too long before Colton Tower (visible behind SD4... (more)