A UP powered high-priority stack train heads eastbound through rural northern Missouri, near the small town of Baring, on the BNSF Transcon.

Highest point on the transcontinental railroad
On the beautiful early autumn day of September 24, 2003, an eastbound Union Pacific freight crests the summit of Sherman Hill at Sherman, W... (more)

UP's Gas Turbines were around for a couple more years after this photo was taken in Sept. 67. To see the rear end, check photo 639382 and thanks to Rick Erben for the location ID.

Westbound past the old water tank at Harriman which still stands today

With a colorful consist up front and a threatening sky overhead westbound tonnage departs Green River, passing the old Green River depot.

Prior to UPs massive order of SD70M and SD70M-2s the locomotive fleet to a large extent subsisted upon weary Southern Pacific locomotives. Ex-SP SD40T-2 No. 8243 has been given a UP treatment as i... (more)

A battle-worn Southern Pacific SD40T-2 leads a 102 car MDVRO train through Price Canyon at Castle Gate on Aug. 26, 2000.

SP 358, a superior workhorse for the terrain, leads a coal train along the Arkansas River at Granite, CO on the now forlorn Tennessee Pass Subdivision, not long before the line succumbed to a fate... (more)

The SP years were the heyday for the Tennessee Pass route but things are about to reach an abrupt end in just a few months. Meanwhile the passing sidings are kept polished by meets such as is tran... (more)

An auto rack train diverges onto the Phoenix line at Picacho, AZ, framed by the distinctive SP searchlight signals

UP EMD SD24 No.403 with SD24B and an F9(A) near Salt Lake City, Utah June 1972. No photographer listed on slide.

With the impressive backdrop of the Wagner Mills elevators in Schuyler, NE, a five-pack of brand new ACs leads Proviso-North Platte symbol QPRNP into the sundown.

While a Union Pacific manifest rolls by underneath, a BNSF grain peeks out of the Oregon Trunk's Columbia River crossing.

A 67 car Salt Lake City to Denver manifest freight is wrapped around the Gilluly horseshoe on its journey east to Soldier Summit on Aug. 30, 1998.

Union Pacific 817 leads a trio of GP30s, including a rare GP30B, eastbound up the .82 percent approach to Hermosa Tunnel, apex of Sherman Hill and highest point on the railroad’s transcontinenta... (more)