UP 1111 North leads a 9 car special, bound for San Luis Obispo, seen here passing thru Seacliff on it's journey up the Coast Line.

A UP Officer's Special exits the San Fernando Valley and enters Santa Susana Pass enroute to San Luis Obispo.

UP 1111 leads a nine car train of gleaming business cars off the flyover at Frost as it passes a slash and springs colors at this location, still holding on thanks to the rather enjoyable temperat... (more)

"Powered By Our People"...On A Different Railroad. Still less than half way into its trip from Las Vegas, NV to San Luis Obispo, CA, UP 1111 and its business car train find themse... (more)

UP 1111's First Coast Trip. Having just joined the Pacific Ocean for the first time, UP 1111, adorned in a special paint scheme honoring the employees of the railroad, belches smoke as the ... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special, train PLVSL-15, hustles through Frost, in California’s Mojave Desert, as it makes its way from Las Vegas, Nevada, to San Luis Obispo, California. The railro... (more)

Running solo and putting on a smoke show in the process, UP 1111 leads an engineering special around the infamous Chatsworth curve as it prepares to duck into Tunnel 28 and begin its assault of Sa... (more)

A UP passenger train led by the "powered by our people" locomotive glides thru the valley with the town of Morgan in the background.

UP 1111 leads a 9 car passenger train downgrade at Echo, Utah.

Fortunately the special encounter some traffic at Garfield so I was able to get one more shot at LM Bryon. He passed me here like a rocket ship.

After shooting my first shot of the officers special at Faust. I had plans for a couple other shots. Well after I got my first shot. The 3084 put the peddle to metal. I was on a country road going... (more)

I got the chance to catch a Yuma to Council Bluffs engineering special. Lead by a shiny SD70ACe-T4 3084.

UP 3084 leads a 3 car special Northbound on the Palmdale Cutoff at Canyon. The train will enter BNSF rails using the Silverwood connector for the run back to home rails at Daggett.

A UP Officer's Special arrives at ICTF. After dropping off their passengers, the train will wye and return east towards Council Bluffs, IA. On the left, PHL YPUP06 prepares to shove a stack train ... (more)