Three EMD locomotives in different stages of overhaul sit outside on the huge Downing B. Jenks Locomotive Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on the afternoon of May 19, 2015. GP38-2 No. 689 and ... (more)

UPY No. 610 sits in the sandblasting bay at the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. After all the desired paint and lettering is removed in th... (more)

A welder puts some elbow grease into it as he grinds fresh welds on repairs to the nose of Union Pacific SD40-2 No. 3071 at the Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 201... (more)

A painter (carman by trade) in the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, begins adding the classy, winged nose logo to UP GE ES44AC No. 5401 during th... (more)

Inside the main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, locomotives assemble for rebuild and overhaul on May 19, 2015.

Missouri Pacific owned over 300 SD40-2s, but the locomotive that really defined the MP in the 1970s and beyond was the EMD GP38-2 - The MoPac owned 264 GP38-2s (along with 6 GP38s). Built in Augu... (more)

A trio of Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (3205, 3215 and 3190) maneuver through the yard in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 2nd, 1983. Meanwhile, a coal train led by Burlington Northern C30-7 5006... (more)

Looking like a model railroader's kitbashing project, Rock Island GP40 4710 sits in the deadline in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in May 1985. The deadline is made up of former Rock Island and Wes... (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)

The Arkansas State Capitol building looms in the distance and across the Arkansas River as UP 844 rests before another day of Fall trips to Bald Knob.

Two EMD SD70Ms wait for work at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. No. 5090 has the “standard” SD70M cab, while sister No. 5155 is equipped with... (more)

Before a truck can be rebuilt, it must first be taken apart, as these men are doing in the truck shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015.

In the boiler shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, is a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully repairing a snow plow on May 19, 2015.

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 8576 rides the north transfer table behind a Rail King RK 300 mobile railcar mover (trackmobile) at North Little Rock’s Jenks Shop on May 18, 2015.

I found it amazing how fast a paint shop worker (carman by trade) could “stripe” a locomotive in the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Here, one t... (more)