Running ahead of schedule the Union Pacific Passenger Special from Atlanta GA to Long Beach California approaches its final leg in Arizona as they fly on down the main toward the border town of Yu... (more)

UP 2718 and UP 9002 in fresh and clean paint fly through Blaisdell Arizona on a UP Passenger Train.

UP 951 charges thru Atchison, KS with an excursion train on a brutally hot August day.

UP ran a special from St. Louis to Council Bluffs. For this trip they actually got some decent power for the 12 car train. Here they poke around the curve at West Marshalltown prepared to crossove... (more)

A Union Pacific Directors' Special glides along Puget Sound on a partly cloudy spring morning at Steilacoom, WA. UP has trackage rights here on BN's former NP mainline between Tacoma and Portland.... (more)

Union Pacific Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe No. 1989 leads an eastbound Operation Lifesaver special east of Payne on Colorado’s North Fork Subdivision on June 14, 2009. Behind 1989 is UP E9B No. 9... (more)

Union Pacific's Cheyenne Frontier Days special leaves Denver behind as it heads North towards Cheyenne powered by the A-B-A set of E9's and Centennial DDA40X #6936.

On a Perfect July morning, UPs three E9s and DDA40X lead up the Cheyenne Frontier Days passenger special. The train had a good run up the Greeley Sub, arriving in Cheyenne shortly before 10am. Her... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger train is heading south on Union Pacific Mojave subdivision in Mojave, California.

A Oakland Bound Union Pacific 8992 Passenger train stopped at Union Pacific Aurant Yard for inspection.

After a visit to Spokane, Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Train climbs the grade between Scribner and Lakeside Jct. in Marshall Canyon. In less than a mile the train will re-enter UP trackage an... (more)

UP 960 heads up a Directors' Special through Steilacoom along Puget Sound on a blustery spring day in 1979. The train is headed from Seattle to Portland and points east and is running on BN tracka... (more)

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)