UP’s nameless passenger Train No. 70, operating between Kansas City and Salina, leaves North Topeka, Ks. eastbound with 8 cars behind lone E9 902 on March 27, 1965.

UP has pared its once-famous “City” passenger fleet down to a handful of trains and so March 4, 1965, finds westbound 106-112, the combined City of Portland-City of Denver, north of Brighton, ... (more)

Streamliners at Spencer

Operational E9 passenger diesellocomotive # 6051 of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Daylight paint scheme, built in 1954 by EMD in a batch of 9 engins. Allowed the dieselization of the Coast ... (more)

The Union Pacific Hinkle Special accelerates eastbound at The Dalles, Oregon along the Columbia River. The train is heading dignitaries to a grand opening celebration of UP's new hump operation at... (more)

Still waiting at UP Armourdale Yard awaiting repairs to the wheels. Hard to believe 3 weeks ago this engine was shoving N&W 611 into the roundhouse for restoration in Spencer, NC.

A crew member climbs up the ladder to the cab of UP 951, which made a stop in the Denver North Yard for servicing on it's way back to Wyoming. Given the height of the cab door you had to have a s... (more)

Southbound St Louis train making Joliet station stop

MARC E-unit no. 91 sits in Riverside Yard in Baltimore, just months after being retired from commuter service.

UP's Directors' Special from Seattle heads towards Portland and points east at Castle Rock, Washington on BN's double track mainline. UP exercises trackage rights on this former NP route, which wa... (more)

Reading the Illinois Central E unit was to lead the 2013 CN Holiday train I thought I should get out to see this train never knowing how long the 101 would remain. I spent the full day from Gilma... (more)

UP's Old timers' Special heads west on its climb over the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon having left La Grande. The train is en route to Portland. Snow conditions still prevail on this late Apri... (more)

A MARC E unit is photographed at Lander on the Metropolitan Subdivision.

CN 102, TAWAW, CHAMPLAIN, and CN 5279 was running this train through St. Boniface in Winnipeg for CN Family Days.

After a visit to Spokane, Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Train climbs the grade between Scribner and Lakeside Jct. in Marshall Canyon. In less than a mile the train will re-enter UP trackage an... (more)