In the mid -1960s, the Union Pacific’s Nebraska mainline suddenly blossomed with run-through power from almost a dozen different railroads. On October 2, 1966, for example, UP DD35A 80 leads a q... (more)

Union Pacific was seldom an enthusiastic Baldwin customer; most of its modern steam power came from Alco. But in 1952, the road acquired six AS-616 road switchers from Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. Valu... (more)

North Platte, Nebraska, was and remains the place to sample everything old and new running on the Union Pacific. On October 2, 1966, the new included Alco Century 855 61, parked at the fuel rack j... (more)

Screaming toward the camera at about 55 mph somewhere east of North Platte, Union Pacific’s westbound Big Blow 22, a member of the final class of 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 turbines, is about the m... (more)

By the early 1960s Union Pacific was looking around for a diesel model to replace its turbines, something that, run in three-unit sets, could produce 15,000 hp. GE’s answer was the twin-engine U... (more)

Somehow my wife was invited aboard an eastbound coal train just east of North Platte which got me invited as well. I was able to shoot a westbound before they departed.

An employee on the fuel tracks at Union Pacific’s massive North Platte yard slakes the thirst of another locomotive passing through on this busy servicing location on the Overland route through ... (more)

Various locomotives surround the diesel shops at the worlds largest railyard

With three SD40-2s providing a classic look to the scene, UP's North Platte to Grand Island turn crosses the North Platte River as they near the end of their workday at Bailey Yard.

The observation deck of the Golden Spike Tower Museum provides an excellent place to sit back and watch some great rail action. Bailey Yard, the largest yard in the world is the hub for the Union ... (more)

A North Little Rock, AR bound manifest waits Bailey Yard for a crew to be delivered to begin its journey east out of North Platte.

UP SD45 24 leads a pair of SD40-2's west out of North Platte, Nebraska. Photo by Joseph R. Quinn.

UP 6922 enjoys it's retirement by sitting on display at Cody Park in North Platte, NE.

UP 1930 & UPY 806 build a train from the eastbound classification yard.

Three of fifteen Helm GP38-2s visible from the Golden Spike Tower.