Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E9s are fresh from a rebuild at VMV in Paducah, Kentucky, and are now headed west at Benton Junction, Illinois, on April 26, 1993. The train departed Paducah in the ... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9s gather on BN/Metra commuter trains stored in the coach yard (Hill Yard) at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16, 1988.

Metra trains powered by Burlington Northern E9s assemble at Chicago Union Station in October 1983, waiting patiently for commuters to board for a trip home to the western suburbs.

Tom Golden photo.

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of classy EMD E9s is preparing to depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, with a passenger train on the morning of July 10, 2009.

On Burlington Northern’s triple-track main line from Chicago to Aurora, another commuter train, or “dinky” as they are called locally, heads west on Track 1 at Highlands, Illinois, on August... (more)

On an overcast day, an Amtrak lite engine move consisting of three E-units and an F40PH are seen at 21st Street Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk performs a photo runby at Madras on a fall morning in 1995. Central Oregon's iconic Three Sisters mountains can be seen in the distance.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk is returning to Portland from Bend in fall 1995. This spot at the confluence of the White River is the only place in the Deschutes River Canyon where the peak of M... (more)

A Union Pacific special train pulled by the a-b-a set of E units passes the old elevator at Verdon, NE.

Operating for the Union Pacific Historical Society, a train dubbed the “City of Yoder,” ran from Cheyenne to South Morrill and return on the UP Yoder Subdivision on July 10, 2009. Powered by U... (more)

Union Pacific special trains have run with many different diesel engines leading over the years but nothing ever looked better than the A-B-A set of E's on the head end. An example is this Union P... (more)

While Union Pacific never painted a locomotive for the American Bicentennial, they did, however, loan E9A 951 to the Preamble Express, a special train that was to be used in the final plann... (more)