I'm unsure as to whether this is Amtrak or a UP special train with the undiluted set of E9s and UP consist at this date - probably the latter. The train is eastbound at the Cheyenne depot. The tra... (more)

For some time Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr, Nos. 5 and 6, made a stop in Cheyenne, WY on their route between Denver and Ogden. This necessitated a runaround move at Cheyenne, as the trains came i... (more)

Inspecting the Western Pacific before purchase. A Roger Puta Photograph

It’s been several years since Union Pacific F-units have appeared in Denver. But suddenly in the fall of 1968 a group of F9’s transferred from the road’s Northwestern District have started s... (more)

UP #951 skirts the Missouri River with an excursion train in August of 1994.

UP 951 has just started its' journey as it leads a passenger excursion from Omaha to Saint Louis on a brutally warm summer day in 1994.

Union Pacific EMD F9(A) 535, and 522B in Spokane, Washington. Both units were sold to Rock Island in 2/72 and renumbered as shown: 535-RI 4165, 522B-RI 4103. No photographer name on slide.

A UP officer's special from Silver Bow, Montana crests 5432 ft. Apex, Montana (north of Dillon) on Oct. 11, 1993. After navigating the entire 255 mile Montana Subdivision, the 11 car train will ti... (more)

In modern times Union Pacific has seemed at a perplexity over its Denver-Kansas City line, the historic Kansas Pacific. In passenger days, the KP hosted the City of Saint Louis and the Portland Ro... (more)

UP's beautiful E9s pull a Los Angeles to Council Bluffs passenger special up the 1.14% grade through Echo Canyon on August 23, 1993.

A 16 car National Railway Historical Society passenger special arrives at Backman's Curve in Provo on June 25, 1997.

With the National Railway Historical Society convention being held in Salt Lake City, a 16 car UP passenger special is ready to travel a giant loop through central Utah the following day with soci... (more)

A UP special runs around a Santa Fe freight through Hesperia. E9 960 will be retired in less then a year. Photo taken by Richard M. Panek

UP's Old Timers Special operated for retired employees of the railroad heads west at Oxman, OR en route to La Grande and Portland behind a quartet of E9 locomotives, covering territory once the ho... (more)

On Sunday, March 30, 1980, Roger Puta photographed the Union Pacific Director's Special touring the Western Pacific after the UP announced its intention to purchase the WP. Senior board member Ha... (more)