Union pacific train

High quality photograph of Union Pacific EMD E9(A) # UP 951 at Pinecliffe, Colorado, USA.

High quality photograph of Union Pacific EMD SD70M # UP 5126 at Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA.

A Union Pacific passenger special exits Tunnel 18 east of Crescent, Colorado, on June 10, 2002. A lone, new EMD SD70, No. 4926, leads the shiny yellow train westbound through the “Tunnel District.”

Despite the sun, this was a very cold winter's afternoon down at the rail-yard. I had actually asked for and was given permission by some rail employees to get close and shoot these locomotives in action.... Honestly, I don't think the guys who told me it was okay to stand on tracks in front of moving trains coming right at me had the proper authority to do so. Been there and done this too many times to know permission is never granted by the railroads for this stuff... but I wasn't gonna…

See a restored Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive - the largest steam engine built in the USA - on its tour of the American West.

Union Pacific Shield Logo!

Union Pacific gas turbine X-18 is one of thirty 8,500HP locomotives built by GE. At 166 feet long and almost 850,000 pounds these are by far the largest locomotives ever built. You can see the tender which carried the bunker oil for the turbine curve off to the left in the image.

Union Pacific GEVO C45ACCTE # 7463

Train Engine Front