UP 1111's First Coast Trip. Having just joined the Pacific Ocean for the first time, UP 1111, adorned in a special paint scheme honoring the employees of the railroad, belches smoke as the ... (more)

Union Pacific special trains have run with many different diesel engines leading over the years but nothing ever looked better than the A-B-A set of E's on the head end. An example is this Union P... (more)

Running solo and putting on a smoke show in the process, UP 1111 leads an engineering special around the infamous Chatsworth curve as it prepares to duck into Tunnel 28 and begin its assault of Sa... (more)

A UP passenger train led by the "powered by our people" locomotive glides thru the valley with the town of Morgan in the background.

After shooting my first shot of the officers special at Faust. I had plans for a couple other shots. Well after I got my first shot. The 3084 put the peddle to metal. I was on a country road going... (more)

While Union Pacific never painted a locomotive for the American Bicentennial, they did, however, loan E9A 951 to the Preamble Express, a special train that was to be used in the final plann... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Office Car Special operating for the Board of Directors passes through colorful Red Canyon along the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on September 28, 200... (more)

UP 1943 (The Spirit of the Union Pacific) leads a 13 car officer special over the scenic Moffat Tunnel Line in August, 2019. Here, the officer special slows down to meet a loaded coal train at Rol... (more)

Traveling eastbound on Union Pacific’s North Fork Subdivision running out of Grand Junction is an Operation Lifesaver special between Payne and Rogers Mesa, Colorado, on June 14, 2009. Powering ... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific passenger train curves along the Colorado River in rugged Little Gore Canyon east of Radium, Colorado, on August 5, 2014. Powering the nine-car special is EMD SD70ACe No... (more)

The morning of June 27th an officer's special for the Union Pacific traveled from Las Vegas, NV through California on its way east to Council Bluffs, IA. I took advantage of a day off and start... (more)

City of San Francisco Takes to the Coast. The 1955-built dome car No. 9009, named the City of San Francisco in 1993, looks sharp as it brings up the rear of this afternoon's business... (more)

The return trip from San Luis Obispo for the Union Pacific 2 day excursion for the California Short Line Railroad Association from Burbank Ca. to San luis Obispo and return on the Santa Barbara S... (more)

With business car “Kenefick” bringing up the rear of the train, the sun graciously lit the scene as 4014 and train coast into a service stop in Laramie.

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of EMD E9s power an office car special eastbound on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision at State Bridge just east of Bond, Colorado, on June 6, 1998.