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News photo: Union Pacific’s Super train

By Trains Staff | February 7, 2022

| Last updated on March 30, 2024

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Passenger train with two locomotives and yellow cars on bridge
Union Pacific’s Super Bowl special, symboled as PCBLB, is shown crossing the Platte River near the town of Plattsmouth about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5. Oliver Brehm

Union Pacific’s Super Bowl special, a 29-car train using its business train equipment, headed west on Saturday from Council Bluffs and Omaha for Los Angeles, the site of Super Bowl LVI between Cincinnati and the Los Angeles Rams. The game is set for Sunday, Feb. 13.

8 thoughts on “News photo: Union Pacific’s Super train

  1. The Super Bowl expedition is very nice but when trains are being annulled acct. lack of power or power is being stripped from revenue trains in order to catch up with previously held trains is this trip necessary.
    When it takes 12 hours for a train to leave a terminal acct. lack of rested crews is this trip necessary.
    Customers are desperate for service but come second for moves like this.
    The UP has to do better!!!

    1. How about either #844 or the Big Boy pulling the Super Bowl Special instead? ☺🇺🇸🚂🚃🚃🚃

    2. The way the extreme environmental regulations are in CA now a days, the smoke from either steam engine would be considered a cause global warming!

  2. Beautiful train but only for the wealthy mostly. Would be nice to see UP donate 10% of the cost of running it and the entertainment provided to foodbanks along the way– ala CP Holiday train.

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