UP 6930 and UP 6929 lead a intermodal hotshot train down the 3% south track at Cajon siding. The track coming towards me is the north track heading to Sullivan's Curve.
It must have really been something to pace the world's largest diesel locomotive. By this time period all the high speed 8000 series SD40-2 locomotives have been returned to their normal gearing a... (more)
UP's hot Overland Mail West sweeps through the valleys east of the highest ridges of the Sierra Nevada, with the little town of Doyle in the distance. What a change in scenery this is compared to ... (more)
”Someday, This Will Be Mine!” An aspiring young engineer holds onto the handrail of one of the world’s largest diesel locomotives as he poses for a portrait. In a few short h... (more)
A Union Pacific officer special rolls along the Sacramento River on a summer afternoon. In 1997, the railroad was washed away here by floodwaters.
An inspection special rolls south on the Shasta Route.
UP 6936 leads a directors special thru Mount Pleasant, WI in May of 2008.
One of the Union Pacific custom-built EMD DD40X units leads two other UP and an SP unit on a westbound freight up Sherman Hill. Grey skies foretell a snowstorm that will occur after dark.
Hermosa WY Oct 19 1977 -- DDA40X 6937 leads an eastbound mixed freight on Sherman Hill. The train is crossing over a former UP alignment.
UP morning eastbound hot pig train out of Los Angeles has just topped over the summit of Cajon Pass and is starting the descent of the east side of the pass.
DDA40X on display at UP's Downing B. Jenks Shop.
"Big Jacks" Heading for Cajon ... And RetirementOn a bright April 1980 day, an eastbound Union Pacific freight climbs out of San Bernardino as it approaches the steep grades of Cajo... (more)
Retired DD40X No. 6938 makes a wonderful display outside of the Jenks Locomotive Shop in North Little Rock. The Union Pacific rostered 47 of these massive machines, which measure in at 98 feet lon... (more)
Westbound UP intermodal train using Santa Fe trackage rights beginning the climb up the east approach to Cajon Pass at Frost
Westbound UP intermodal train using Santa Fe trackage rights through Colton.
