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Pages in category "Union Pacific Railroad locomotives" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The U50 was built in response to the Union Pacific Railroad's requirement, issued in the early 1960s, for a 15,000 hp (11,200 kW) 3-unit locomotive intended to replace the turbines. The design was effectively two U25B locomotives on a single frame; each diesel engine and generator powered only the two trucks at the same end.
Development of the U50C was to the same UP specification that produced the EMD DDA40X "Centennial" units—a requirement for a high power locomotive for the railroad's high-speed freight trains. The span-bolster B+B-B+B design was not suited to this service, and the requirement for power at speed rather than low-speed hauling meant six powered ...
The Union Pacific class MK-1 was a class of 2-8-2 'Mikado' type steam locomotives that were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works originally for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N), [4] Oregon Short Line Railroad (OSL) [2] and Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1910 and 1911.
The engine and tender were loaded onto flatcars in Sacramento, and headed to Vancouver, via rail on a Union Pacific freight train. Once she had arrived in Vancouver, the locomotive and tender were unloaded, placed on the tracks and fired up in order to pass a safety test that would insure it was safe for the engine operate in Canada.
From the Union Pacific Railroad Folio Locomotive Diagram Book No. 200, issued in 1897 (courtesy Union Pacific Railroad). In August 1904 (different sources disagree on the date), the Union Pacific Railroad sold Locomotive No. 737 and a few similar 4-4-0s to either Charles Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company or the Texas ...
Union Pacific 1243 is a preserved 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive on display at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Built in October 1890 by the American Locomotive Company 's Cooke Works , No. 1243 is one of the oldest "Ten Wheelers" owned by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP).
Union Pacific No. 119 was a 4-4-0 American type steam locomotive made famous for meeting the Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. The locomotive was built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New ...