A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads out of Las Vegas on the UP's Third Subdivision of the Utah Division behind a trio of SD40-2s, led by UP SD40-2 3604. Bringing up the markers, when that wa... (more)

Splitting the signals as it speeds eastbound across the original transcontinental railroad is a Union Pacific freight with a pair of the railroad's unique "Fast Forties" on the headend: ... (more)

Creeping out of the small Union Pacific yard in the Texas panhandle town of Dalhart is an eastbound freight powered by UP Dash 9-40CW 9427 and Canadian National Dash 9-44CW 2512. (Dalhart, Texas ... (more)

UP SD70Ms 4526 and 4527 lead an Officer Special, and the train is seen at the west end of UP’s East Yard (this end often referred to as "Spence Street"). Union Pacific can still assem... (more)

If you like old warehouses and other industrial (and repurposed) buildings? Head to Kansas City’s West Bottoms area, where Union Pacific SD70Ms 4996 and 5107, departing Armourdale Yard across t... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight, led by UP SD40-2 3376, waits as it meets an eastbound Union Pacific freight with Chicago & North Western GP50 5091 on the headend, on UP’s busy Kearney Sub. (... (more)

Ten miles out of North Platte, a solid set of Chicago & North Western power – C&NW GP50 5091 and SD40-2s 6915 and 6932 – hustle a Union Pacific freight eastbound through the crossovers at Keit... (more)

Union Pacific SD60M 6186, teamed with a Southern Pacific B36-8E (SP 8003), an SP SD40T-2 and a UP SD60M, rolls its eastbound intermodal train through the Amtrak station as it exits the Mojave Narr... (more)

A Union Pacific freight, with DDA40X 6945, SD40-2 3235 and SD40s 3002 and 3004 for power, crests Cajon Pass as it heads east. (Summit, Cajon Pass, California – March 5, 1976)

To commemorate the sixty-six Union Pacific employee/reservists who were called to active duty for "Operation Desert Storm," Union Pacific painted SD40-2 3593 (ex-UP 8084) into this disti... (more)

A quartet of SD45s – 2 from Union Pacific (3646 and another 3628) and 2 from Rio Grande (5327 and 5338) – grind up Cajon Pass with an empty coal train, headed back to Utah. Rio Grande SD45s w... (more)

In a haze of blue exhaust, an eastbound Union Pacific freight departs North Platte and begins to accelerate as it clears the big yard’s Yard Limit. UP U30C 2923 is teamed with a GP30, and the t... (more)

Once in a while, one of Union Pacific’s routes through the Los Angeles Basin gets shut down by maintenance, or a lack of maintenance, and some hot UP trains have to detour on the BNSF Railway. ... (more)