A well powered Roseville to Kansas City manifest freight speeds through Gilluly with 66 cars on Sept. 29, 1996. The yard goats were likely en route to Grand Junction or to Pueblo to work.

A colorful assortment of EMD and GE units pull a 112 car Roseville to Kansas City manifest freight through Gilluly on Oct. 5, 1996. A pair of tunnel motors can be seen shoving on the rear of the t... (more)

UP train using KCT trackage rights Sheffield interlocking

A Union Pacific American President Line stack train ducks under a Herriman era signal bridge in Echo Canyon on Sept. 30, 1995.

Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada just never gets old for me. I have been going there for decades. This shot shows an empty, eastbound, iron ore train rounding the Loop. It is headed for Iron Springs... (more)

Grinding up the .82 percent to Hermosa Tunnel and the 8014-foot summit of Sherman Hill in late September, 1965, Union Pacific 418 leads a motive power consist that could be assembled on no other ... (more)

E8 925 was originally a C&NW E7 which was wrecked by UP in 1951 at Wyuta, Utah. UP then purchased it and sent it back to EMD for rebuilding. UP sold this engine to the Rock Island in 1969. Here it... (more)

A trio of Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead an Intermountain Power to Skyline coal empty through Spanish Fork Canyon on Oct. 8, 1997. The dramatic background is courtesy of 10,689 ft. Loafer Mountai... (more)

EMD power from Southern Pacific, Chicago & North Western and Motive Power Industries pull a 90 car MDVRO through Riverton on July 27, 1997.

Who else but Union Pacific could routinely muster 15,750-hp on the head end, and do it with only three units? On March 19, 1966, 8,500-hp turbine 19, a 2250-hp GP30, and a 5,000-hp DD35B are past... (more)

Wyoming’s ever-present wind drags Union Pacific 28’s exhaust across the prairie east of Laramie as the 8500-hp turbine single-handedly muscles a drag up the approach to Sherman Hill, March 19,... (more)

On the cusp of a beautiful Nevada sunset, Union Pacific rolls manifest freight southwest through the Moapa Valley over the Los Angeles and Salt Lake route.

Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and ‘35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)

Laramie was once a busy terminal, where eastbounds picked up helpers for the climb over Sheman Hill and westbounds dropped them off. But four years after the last Union Pacific steam engine tied u... (more)

And they're off!