Since the Depression year of 1930, Train 17-18, the Portland Rose, has been one of Union Pacific’s classier operations, even boasting for a time its own individual china pattern (depicting, natu... (more)

Still Santa Fe’s elegant flagship and one of the last of the great passenger trains in February, 1969, the Super Chief, Train 18, slows for a meet with a unit coal train just south of Glorieta, ... (more)

A single E8 leads the 4 car remains of the Portland Rose at first stop since leaving Denver, Limon, Colo. on its 640 mile run to Kansas City. Rock Island crossing was still in service, its line t... (more)