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The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.
Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 844: December 1944 American Locomotive Company (ALCO) FEF-3 4-8-4 Operational Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 1242: T-57 4-6-0 Static display 1243: October 1890 T-57 4-6-0 Static display 2005: April 1911 Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) MK-1: 2-8-2: Static display Ross Park in Pocatello, Idaho ...
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
The M-10000 was an early American streamlined passenger trainset that operated for the Union Pacific Railroad from 1934 until 1941. It was the first streamlined passenger train to be delivered in the United States, and the second to enter regular service after the Pioneer Zephyr of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
One of the M-10003-6 trains (center left) along with EMD E6 locomotives and other streamlined cars. The Union Pacific Railroad's M-10003, M-10004, M-10005, and M-10006 were four identical streamlined 2-car power car diesel-electric train sets delivered in May, June, and July 1936 from Pullman-Standard, with prime movers from the Winton Engine ...
In early June 1935 the Union Pacific transferred the heavyweight coaches and tourist sleeping cars of its Los Angeles Limited to a second section, the Challenger.The new train met with such success that the UP ordered 68 cars rebuilt, including 47 coaches, 16 Pullman sleeping cars, and 5 dining cars.
The Union Pacific used the Pacific series on various overnight streamliners in the 1950s and 1960s. [4]: 50 One car, Pacific Empire, was written off after a rear-end collision at Wyuta, Wyoming in November 1951. [citation needed] The Milwaukee Road purchased five from the Union Pacific in June 1969 in order to equalise the per diem payments on ...
After the Union Pacific exited the passenger business in 1971 it sold two of the dome coaches (#7004 and #7008) to the Alaska Railroad for use on its AuRoRa streamliner. [ 3 ] : 211 UP retained dome coach #7006 and dome lounge-observation #9004 for company use and donated dome diner #8003 to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin ...