UP's infamous coal turbine basks in the sun at Coucil Bluffs, Iowa. This locomotive operated from September 1962 through July 1963. It was operated between Council Bluffs, Iowa and North Platte, a... (more)

UP 26 sitting near the Ogden Union Station approximately 20 years after retirement and now part of the Utah State Railroad Museum.

Union Pacific GTEL turbine X-18 basks in evening sun on a display track at the Illinois Railway Museum.

A roster shot of UP's turbine 24.

This is why, six years after the end of steam, fans still head for Union Pacific’s Sherman Hill. On September 25, 1965, GTEL 11 leads a GP30-DD35-DD35B-DD35B combination – some 25,750 hp. in a... (more)

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'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.

UP's only coal turbine electric makes a test run as many officials look on. This locomotive was an experimental and didn't run very much as it was deemed a failure. A set of diesels was always in ... (more)

Here is UP's experiment with a coal turbine. They turned a PA into a control unit and an ex GN W1 electric into a coal fired turbine. If I remember right the unit ran only in the summer of 1962. H... (more)

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.

UP "Big Blow" Gas Turbine 18 sits on display at the Illinois Railway Museum, two of these engines still survive, one in Ogden, UT and this one in Union, IL

‘Tis the day after Christmas, 1965, as GTEL Big Bow 9 makes its noisy way past Tower A at Cheyenne’s west end with an extra for Laramie. The C&S overpass offes a fine view of the action, and, ... (more)

Eight miles east of Cheyenne, UP‘s Archer Hill offers the photographer less variety but a more convenient vantage point than sprawling Sherman Hill to the west. On June 2, 1965, the temperature ... (more)

You had to stand at trackside to get the full effect: Union Pacific’s final class of turbines, the 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 Big Blows, were BIG, almost 166 feet long overall, 16 feet tall. And lo... (more)