Ever so often, something very bad would happen on the Santa Fe transcon. The main would get blocked, and Santa Fe was forced to run it's hottest trains over the Union Pacific. It was an awesome tr... (more)

AM At Armourdale | Forty minutes past sunrise on a windy Saturday, April 6, 2024, a westbound manifest train approaches Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, KS. Having just cros... (more)

Back when they were brands new. Union Pacific SD70M's 4734 and 4733 make their way through Lakepoint, Utah. The Oquirrh Mountains have been layer with fresh snow over night. UP 4734, 7433 could po... (more)

UP 5593 (ES44AC) leads a freight towards Laramie, Wyoming on the Transcon Line.

Weather and wind battered snow fences greet UP 2533 (ES44AC) as it leads a freight north of Tie Siding Wyoming on its way to Laramie.

UP 6533 & 5957 power a westbound intermodal train.

UP 6490 is on the rear of an eastbound loaded coal train crossing from main 1 to main 2.

UP 7919 & 7520 eastbound with, in UP lingo, a double coal.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1610 and B unit mate lead 114 cars east at 55 MPH near Alda Nebraska in 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

UP 5593 (ES44AC) runs a freight through the cut west of the Hermosa Tunnels on the Transcon.

A setting sun catches UP 2533 (ES44AC) leading a freight north on the Transcon towards Laramie, Wyoming.

UP 2533 (ES44AC) runs through the Wyoming open space north of Tie Siding as it heads for Laramie.

Sunrise is breaking as UP 5561 (ES44AC) leads a freight out of the Cheyenne Yard and under the former Colorado and Southern Railroad bridge (now BNSF).

UP 8834 (SD70AH) rounds the corner at Crescent, Colorado as it leads a train down the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UP 5593 (ES44AC) leads a freight towards the Hermosa Tunnels on the Transcon.