For a number of years, a Western Pacific GP9 and caboose have been on display in the Elko Railroad Park. Located at 7th and Railroad Streets, the right of way once hosted the Southern Pacific main... (more)
More than three years after the Union Pacific and Western Pacific merger, 13 former WP EMDs rust away near Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.
The Western Pacific Railroad acquired three SW1500s from EMD in May 1973. The 1503 served well into the UP merger, becoming the UP 1503, the UP 1317, and finally the UPY 1042 prior to retirement a... (more)
In July 1983, the Union Pacific repainted a pair of Western Pacific F7s at North Platte for donation to railroad museums. The WP 917 went to the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association for display ... (more)
during WP's last year before suffering "yellow fever" and dying at the hands of UP the hottest train on the railroad, the auto parts laden "Ford Fast" was crossing the North Fork of the Feather Ri... (more)
High-hood GP20 No. 2007 idles in the late afternoon sun on the ready track.
GE and EMD power idles outside the shops at Stockton Yard.
EMD, GE, and a slough of Alcos team up to lift an eastbound manifest up the grade at James.
Two orange and silver Geeps undergo repairs outside the shops.
Workmen sand and refuel ex-Zephyr F-unit No. 915A.
A workman has just finished washing recently delivered GE U23B No. 2258, and it gleams in the afternoon sun as water still drips off it.
northbound WP Inside Gateway train a couple miles north of Keddie
U30Bs idle in the engine facility.
WP Inside Gateway bound train climbing out of Oroville on new track necessitated by the construction of nearby Oroville Dam
WP westbound waiting for a meet on the main line at Marysville, CA