UP's only coal turbine electric makes a test run as many officials look on. This locomotive was an experimental and didn't run very much as it was deemed a failure. A set of diesels was always in ... (more)

Here is UP's experiment with a coal turbine. They turned a PA into a control unit and an ex GN W1 electric into a coal fired turbine. If I remember right the unit ran only in the summer of 1962. H... (more)

One of three Alco C855 built for the UP, two A's and one B. Here is one of them handling a train through Nebraska. These units put out 5500 hp versus EMD's and GE's offering of 5000 at the time. T... (more)

A train with U50 51 and three SD24B's are leaving North Platte's departure yard under stormy skies. On one of the adjacent tracks, a train is headed by what appears to be a U50C.

One of Union Pacific's Gas Turbine electrics is viewed here coupled to a GP9. Photographer is unknown as there is no info on the slide.

We are parked on the siding at Tenneco, just north of Denver. There’s no problem with one-year-old DD35 96B. The workman walking the length of the unit is one of two dozen workers and officials ... (more)

This is one of the GE motors were ordered by Russia but not delivered. Three went to the South Shore and the remainder was divided between the Milwaukee Road and the Paulina Railroad in Brazil.

UP experimental gas turbine 8080B was housed in former GN electric 5018 which has had most of its grills removed for one last fatal maintenance time, Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 3, 1966. 8-wheel tr... (more)

The experiment that didn’t work out: Alco PA 607 was selected as the control unit for Union Pacific’s coal-fired gas turbine 8080B which was formerly Great Northern electric 5018. A Fairban... (more)

Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)

One of a handful of the original full-carbody Alco-GE turbines still on the roster in March, 1964, GTEL 58 waits at the east end of the Cheyenne yards to take an extra to North Platte. In its rest... (more)

A UP U50C, SD24, U50C, and SP SD45, SD45T-2, SD45 pull a train through Echo Canyon Utah. No Photographer name on slide.

Alco's largest diesel engine. Only two A's and one B unit were built. All for UP. This loco had an output of 5500 hp which could have given an edge over GE's 5000 hp U50 and EMD's DD35. But Alco's... (more)

A nice roster shot of a C630 at Council Bluffs. Photo taken by K C Henkels.