As a UP coal load heads for Cajon Pass, Amtrak No. 4 takes on passengers at the Barstow passenger depot.

UP 3950 & 5195 with a westbound manifest.

A UP eastbound empty ballast train takes the sweeping curve, about cross the Deschutes River,at MP 99 west of Biggs,OR on October 24, 2012.

An eastbound UP rock train passes m.p. 99, a couple miles east of Celilo, OR.

A westbound load of Utah coal meets an eastbound BNSF intermodal train departing Barstow Yard.

Challengers 3955 and 3950, along with those immediately behind, have most likely put in their final miles and are sitting cold waiting for disposition. For more color views from that day, click <... (more)

These Challengers have been deactivated and sit in the service tracks waiting for the inevitable. The UP shield is already gone from 3955. For more color views from that day, click Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-6-4
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: UP 3950
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: September, 1957

NS 274 hustles south into West Virginia with a consist of eleven cars.

Late afternoon light bathes westbound intermodal with auto fill down San Timoteo Canyon with snowy peaks looming over beyond and a trio of matched EMD's.

A loaded UP coal train meets an eastbound BNSF intermodal train at the old yard.

Uncle Pete is everywhere! UP 3950 hauls autoracks, doublestacks, and piggybacks from Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard in Atlanta to Rutherford, PA.

CSX Q216 has both versions of UP SD70Ms leading today

Two clean UP units are in charge of wayfreight Q640 just east of Pittsburgh. The vacant land in the background was previously occupied by a tank farm and an old railroad bridge.

New UP 3950 & 3951 ae spliced by ex SP SD70M now UP 3995. Brand New 3950 & 51 are ready to depart UP's huge Global III Yard on their first revenue run.