Union pacific train

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

Union Pacific Passenger Locomotives of the Streamlined Era Poster - A-Trains.com

Union Pacific Shield Logo!

A wide-angle HDR image of legendary Union Pacific diesel locomotive 942 as she sits awaiting another run in Barn #4 at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California. According to the OERM.org website, she was built by Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors Corp. in May 1953, and was eventually upgraded to 2,400 horsepower. Notably, she was one of several engines to pull the famous streamliner "City of Los Angeles" on runs between Chicago and Los Angeles, carrying…

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

Here we see Union Pacific train, engine number M-10006 Pulling Train #112, City of Denver Photographed by Otto Conrad Perry in Denver's Union Station on March 27, 1937 Denver Public Library Digital Collection

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.

Train Engine Front

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…