A beautiful assortment of historic locomotives is on display at Ogden Union Station.
A roster shot of UP's turbine 24.
A Big Blow turbine and diesel locomotives are ready for departure. Behind 23 are a UP SD40X and SD40, plus two SP SD40's. The SD40X was built on an SD35 platform.
Here a Big Blow runs up the steeper grade of Sherman Hill.
There are six GP9's behind this Turbine. No power shortage here.
Turbine 30 struts its stuff hauling stock cars on the front end.
UP Big Blow turbine 29 just came off Sherman Hill and is coming into Cheyenne with two GP35's trailing in the consist.
UP's Big Blow as the name they were known for, runs up Dale junction on Sherman Hill with a freight in tow. Number 23 here is just ten months old. Photo by Richard R. Kindig.
One of Union Pacific's Gas Turbine electrics is viewed here coupled to a GP9. Photographer is unknown as there is no info on the slide.
The nose of GTEL 59 points westward toward Sherman Hill and Lzramie on July 26, 1959, as the big turbine thunders under the C&S overpass at the west end of Cheyenne with an extra. Over on Highway ... (more)