exUP Amtrak 420 was at the Santa Fe Cleburn shops

SP 6051 sits on display during National Train Day 2013 at the California State Railroad Museum

BN 3 has just dropped off its passengers and will soon head west to tie up for the day.

Union Pacific eastbound freight prepares to depart Topeka Yard after making a set out and pick up. Leading the train are passenger units E9A 910, B-units 957B-910B-955B-962B, and Geep 229.

The Union Pacific E9 A-B set have been summoned from Denver and take over for the damaged 4-8-4 8444. The excursion train gets out of Cheyenne just before 4:00 p.m..

Union Pacific E9 units 960 and 974B sit in Denver after having brought the excursion consist for 4-8-4 8444 down from Cheyenne.

A southbound Union Pacific passenger train powered by A-B-A E9s curves past the grain elevator at Verdon, Nebraska, on September 2, 1995, on UP’s Falls City Subdivision between Omaha and Kansas ... (more)

Just try to imagine the number of times this Mars light has gone side / up to side / down.

She's not the prettiest, but she runs! Built in 1961, retired in 1978.

Union Pacific E9A 951 within the roundhouse at Cheyenne.

Generations of passenger power are seen here as SP 6051 and AMTK 281 greet visitors to the California State Rail Museum on National Train Day 2013.

Amtrak #1 at the El Paso, Texas Union Depot. This locomotive had been a regular on the "City of Hinkle" prior to Amtrak taking over passenger service. I got to see it once again while in Texas a... (more)

Out of Portola early in the morning, the Feather River Special glides westward along the river.

Besides along Lincoln Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., where else do trains run so fast so close to private homes? Here was former UP E9 No. 912 racing Amtrak Train 770 at maximum authorized speed o... (more)