Union Pacific's Park City Local departs Morgan with eight hopper cars and a caboose on July 25, 1980. On the point are A-B-A GP30s No. UP 831, UP 836B, and UP 876. The train will pick up covered h... (more)

An EMD GP9 awaits an assignment at North Yard in Salt Lake City on July 25, 1980. The UP 189 was built by EMD for the Union Pacific in April 1954 and retired from the active roster in October 1983... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's one and only high hood SD24 works the north end of Ogden's Riverdale Yard on July 24, 1980. The UP 448 was built as EMD demonstrator 5579 in July 1958 and was sold to the ... (more)

UP has pared its once-famous “City” passenger fleet down to a handful of trains and so March 4, 1965, finds westbound 106-112, the combined City of Portland-City of Denver, north of Brighton, ... (more)

Laramie was once a busy terminal, where eastbounds picked up helpers for the climb over Sheman Hill and westbounds dropped them off. But four years after the last Union Pacific steam engine tied u... (more)

Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)

With the emergence of remote control engineers, there appears to be no need to man the control tower overlooking the Union Pacific's North Yard - at least I have yet to see anyone up there. I bet... (more)

Derailment in the Feather River Canyon. Just after 3am on November 25th, 2014, a westbound grain train derailed near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. The train carrying co... (more)

Wrecked back in July in Sewickley, Pa, UP 5594 is finally being transported from Conway Yard to Curry Supply Company in Hollidaysburg, PA. It is still unknown what will become of this unit. Cano... (more)

UP 459 with fuel tank removed awaits final disposition at Denver's Stockyards in the 1980s.

On Sunday 5 October 2014 at 1:04 pm, a north bound Union Pacific train struck a semi at about 45 mph that had been high centered on the crossing for approximately 2 minutes. The truck was carrying... (more)

A UP manifest and a BNSF Doublestack train are headed down hill through Cajon Pass. The BNSF train is at Sullivan's Curve on the ex-Santa Fe main and the UP is at Canyon on the former SP main.

With the lead unit missing a numberboard (note the duct tape in its place) and the middle unit doing it's best impression of a steam locomotive, this Union Pacific manifest winds its way west on t... (more)

Rows of stored SD9043MACs sit idle at UP's massive Bailey Yard, seen from the Golden Spike Tower. They may be on the sidelines for now, but the non-stop work of the world's largest freight classi... (more)

JLCX now HZRX 8542, 8534 and 8555 have been parted out and handed over to the scraper and will soon meet their demise. A fourth 90 was cut cut a few weeks later.