Big Boy 4014 steaming right out of Heaven, Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 double-head into Granger Junction on a cold, spring morning.

On the home stretch into North Platte's receiving yard, symbol MKSNP-15 out of Kansas City slips through the control point at Keith, NE on a late winter afternoon. The newly installed third mainli... (more)

UP DDA40X 6913 with SD40-2 3485 heading west near Granite, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

A UP only A-B-A set of power leads an eastbound train through Colton, CA, on Santa Fe trackage rights.

The Union Pacific's newly restored Big Boy is a marvel of engineering. They made a test run last night to break her in. From the crowds at the yard it looks like 1/2 of the train loving world wi... (more)

Valley Park, MN to North Platte manifest MVPNP-8 rolls past Wagner Mills in Schuyler, NE on an early spring afternoon. Those yellow Union Pacific Fruit Express reefers still proliferated, as well... (more)

A westbound 'shooter' drifts down grade through the searchlight installation at the west-end of Hermosa, led by Chicago & Northwestern 'heritage' unit #1995. This searchlight installation is one o... (more)

The daily North Platte-West Colton manifest comes rip roaring through the one (flashing) traffic light town of Brule, NE on an early spring afternoon. The space between the mainlines was once occu... (more)

Out in the vastness of central Wyoming, the 9731 East is climbing the grade toward Percy as it passes the control point at Walcott, WY. Fuji Provia.

North Platte to Pocatello manifest MNPPC-09 is rolling along the UP Trail just west of Chappell, NE on an early March afternoon.

A venerable SD70MAC, UP 4166, brings up the rear of a West Colton-bound manifest at Ilmon as its train slowly approaches the "narrows" where it will stop to wait for the northbound ZLCLT.

UP 8448 (SD70ACe) brings a container train into the Cheyenne yard. It is amazing how many trains will pass through the yard in an hour.

When this portion of the railroad was handling 70-90 trains daily, yet another westbound highballs Ogallala, NE. Fuji Provia.

Following the Truckee River westbound from Reno, a Union Pacific Mixed Manifest is just outside of the Town of Truckee. Ahead waits the real climb to the Summit at Norden.

On July 4, 2005 UP put on a show at Big Ten above Denver as its westbound manifest took on the Front Range with no less than eight locomotives including one still in SP paint. Here it is in the lo... (more)