After the passage of a large thunderstorm on Wyoming’s Peru Hill, the late afternoon sun pops out and lights up a Union Pacific stack train heading west on the Evanston Subdivision on June 22, ... (more)

UP 6454 (AC4400CW) waits in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado before taking an officers special up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Nice and clean

UP 1995, wearing the iconic Chicago & North Western heritage colors, is in charge of a monster of a manifest heading for Fresno, California from Green River, Wyoming. They're approaching Portola, ... (more)

UP SD70ACe 8755 leads a westbound as it meets an eastbound near Pocatello at dawn.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads out of Las Vegas on the UP's Third Subdivision of the Utah Division behind a trio of SD40-2s, led by UP SD40-2 3604. Bringing up the markers, when that wa... (more)

An intermodal train heads south on the Shasta Route in spring 1999.

Before the SD70Ms started coming on line with the expansive UP wings on their nose, the little postage stamp shield predominated for some time. UP's new nose treatment is similarly (and appropriat... (more)

UPY 618 (GP15-1) was built in September of 1979 and can be found still working at the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

At Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, a group of UP EMD SD38-2s, along with two SD40-2s, are being used as power at East Hump and jockey for track space west of the hump. On ... (more)

A northbound manifest passes downtown Austin

A newer rebuild #6898 on the Beaumont helper set.

A Z train cruises west out of Smithville

UP 1357 is a 51-year-old GP40-2 that was built in 1972 for the Rio Grande railroad.

A westbound Union Pacific container train works upgrade through the milepost 823 signals between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023.