UP E9 No. 960 and E8 No. 928 face off in the late evening hours of June 22, 1978. No. 960 will be part of a quartet of E9s the next day pulling the Hinkle Special train out of Portland to celebrat... (more)

An officer's special from Houston to Oakland heads through Van Nuys at high speed as my one-time-railfan son watches it pass.

Union Pacific SD70ACe #8795 leads an Employee Appreciation Special into Truckee upon arrival from Sparks, NV. Here, the ES44AH on the other end (UP 8151) will take over and lead the train back to ... (more)

The annual Cheyenne Frontier Days special races through the town of Fort Lupton, CO along the former Denver Pacific route between Denver and Cheyenne. Normally this train is powered by UP no. 844 ... (more)

A Union Pacific Special rolls through the Santa Barbara Subdivision.

Brand new SD70AH UP 8854 and older (but spotless) UP 8732 pull the impressive Board of Directors Special alongside a field of beautiful California Poppies a couple miles railroad north of Aromas, ... (more)

Passenger excursion running during Railfest.

A southbound Union Pacific passenger train powered by A-B-A E9s curves past the grain elevator at Verdon, Nebraska, on September 2, 1995, on UP’s Falls City Subdivision between Omaha and Kansas ... (more)

A Union Pacific Employee Family Day special is just leaving the Union Pacific "Argo" yard in south seatle for a short trip south. Leading the train is an E8A and E8B. On the rear of the train is... (more)

UP 1988, the KATY heritage unit, leads a short passenger train.

The Union Pacific 150 years museum train is seen on display at Boise depot.

On their trip home to Omaha after a thorough rebuilding at Paducah, Kentucky, Union Pacific’s set of E9s curves into Hermann, Missouri, on April 27, 1993.

View of three other UP domes from the "City of Portland"

The morning fog burns off leaving the UP special in brilliant morning light, passing the old CNW mainline coal chute at Clyman Jct.

Welcome to California UP 1996. The Southern Pacific heritage ACe has just crossed the Colorado river as it rolls through the California side of Yuma. The 6 car special is on its way to Portland, O... (more)