The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 is featured in a video shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2017 Union Pacific Days. The model is from the collection of museum volunteer Joel Naegele. […]
UP has created this new 150th anniversary logo celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869. Union Pacific OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific is launching a two-year-long celebration commemorating the great race to complete the Transcontinental Railroad nearly 150 years ago. During the next two years, the railroad will host a traveling exhibit, […]
Ten hoppers coupled to the Big Boy consist in January 2014 were used for additional braking power. Steve Sweeney Q Why was there a string of hopper cars in the consist moving Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., in January 2014? – David Tritenbach, Kerrville, Texas A Although Union […]
HOUSTON — A 53-foot intermodal container aboard a Union Pacific train caught fire and exploded April 23 just north of downtown Houston. Local media reported that the container was carrying lithium-ion batteries in a train from the port of New Orleans to San Antonio, Texas. No one was injured, but the blast blew out windows […]
Dick Kitz started this layout in 1970. It has been moved once to the present site. The primary railroad is Union Pacific, but he also has Southern Pacific. The railroad scenery is Colorado-based with narrow, as well as standard gauge. It’s in HO and HOn3, DCC. Most of the rail is hand-laid, although the newer […]
Dick Kitz started this layout in 1970. It has been moved once to the present site. The primary railroad is Union Pacific, but he also has Southern Pacific. The railroad scenery is Colorado-based with narrow, as well as standard gauge. It’s in HO and HOn3, DCC. Most of the rail is hand-laid, although the newer […]
Grates from the firebox of Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 are going to use in the firebox of Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261. Though of different size and design, they were both built by the American Locomotive Co. in the 1940s and can share certain components. Erik Hoofnagel MINNEAPOLIS — In an example […]
Locomotives lined up in East St. Louis, Ill., to become mother-slug sets for Union Pacific. Kevin Burkholder EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Union Pacific is embarking on a program to modernize its hump yard locomotives system-wide as the first in a new generation of mother-slug sets take shape. The railroad already uses two SD38-2s or […]
Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific rotary snow plow SPMW 207 is back to work sending snow skyward over Donner Pass in California on Feb. 25. The plow last operated over the pass in 2016, when it returned from rebuilding. Mike Haire SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Union Pacific’s route through the Feather River Canyon is still closed […]
An ongoing chase into Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Range leads Charlie Conway to various mountain canyons. That’s where he discovers Union Pacific freight, long-distance Amtrak trains, and snow-covered roads winding along the Colorado River. […]
An ongoing chase into Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Range leads Charlie Conway to various mountain canyons. That’s where he discovers Union Pacific freight, long-distance Amtrak trains, and snow-covered roads winding along the Colorado River. […]
Charlie continues his chase into Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Range. The destination for Day Two is the historic Moffat Tunnel, where Union Pacific and Amtrak trains take turns powering through the East Portal. […]
