A tour of the USSC shops where hard working shop crews stay busy.

A recently rebuilt Union Pacific SD40N No. 1783 rides the transfer table at the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. The former EMD SD40-2 has gone t... (more)

A tedious and thankless job that goes with every good paint job is all the work spent prepping and masking before applying paint. Here, several painters mask a portion of Union Pacific SD70ACe No.... (more)

Union Pacific No. 4141 (George Bush 41) was in the paint shop at UP’s North Little Rock’s Jenks Shop for some touch up work after installation of a new plow. At this point, the specially-paint... (more)

The first unit of 5 specially decorated units for Roy Hill Australia undergoes validation testing with CP AC4400CWM 8139 on the GE test track at Justin, TX. These units are adorned in a special pi... (more)

On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railroad, NC Operation Lifesaver, and NCDOT BeRailSafe and several other state agencies attended and witnessed a staged railroad crossi... (more)

A bad order traction motor is in the process of being changed out on Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6300 at the railroad’s locomotive shop in South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 14, 2017. Using... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4609 gets “sandblasted” and cleaned during prepping for a new paint job in the paint shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18,... (more)

A quartet of EMD SD40-2s power an eastbound Union Pacific freight at Hermosa on UP’s route over Sherman Hill in Wyoming in July 1984. The train is entering a cut that leads to the twin bores of ... (more)

Fifty years ago, May of 1968, SP ALCO Hydraulic #9151 led a Pacific Locomotive Association "Truckee Limited" from Oakland to Truckee and back. Held outside of Sacramento on the return tr... (more)

American Motive Power Inc. had a Trackmobile and their home constructed shop switcher, constructed from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5... (more)

Tthis coal train had alot problems climbing the .40% grade out of the Mississippi River Valley between Gladstone and Kirkwood. Eventually the train stalled here at Kirkwood and the crew is now out... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 is at the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility for an overhaul, with the new prime mover arriving from the staging area in the shop on September 14, 20... (more)

Union Pacific autorack ETTX No. 800477 and CNW covered hopper No. 490441 getting some finishing touches completed at the railroad’s car shop in De Soto, Missouri, on September 28, 2011. The auto... (more)

QNS&L SD70ACe 501: Engineer's view of the northbound mainline, waiting for a meet at Nicman, Quebec mile 36.2