UP 8080 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight around Blue Mountain and into Coal Creek Canyon on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UP 8080 (AC45CCTE) heads into the late evening sun at Tolland, Colorado as it heads west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

A crewman from UP 8080 does a visual check of the Winter Park Express Ski Train as it runs past the siding at Tolland, Colorado.

UP 8080 (AC45CCTE) leads an oil can train over Blue Mountain Road as it enters Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.

UP 8080 (AC45CCTE) leads an oil can train around the elevated curve at Tolland, Colorado.

UP 8080 (AC45CCTE) pulls a long oil train through Rollinsville as it heads towards the Moffat Tunnel's East Portal.

Rolling northbound thru the Ventura Amtrak Station at the Fairgrounds Union Pacific ES44AH no. 8080 leads the Guadalupe local.

A break in the clouds shines a light on the Gaudalupe Local one of the few trains left on the Santa Barbara Sub. Only 4 Amtrak Surfliners are still running and the Starlights are running reduced c... (more)

Pausing under the recently upgraded signal bridge. The UP 8080 awaits for its train to be uncoupled from the rest of its fellow locomotives.

Move over 1943, Here's your UP Lab LOCO! This franken-ALCO was a graveyard smash! It was spotted at the Bluffs in the Summer Of Love prior to being traded in to EMD in '68 for it's own 'monster m... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Clouds build in as the eastbound perishable train from Delano, California to Selkirk, New York (ZDLSKP 02) passes underneath the searchlights near Tie Siding at Hermosa, Wyoming on April 04, 2016.

Late afternoon finds the MWCRV manifest working around Sullivan's Curve at Canyon on the ex SP Palmdale Cutoff.

Sitting in your office chair on BNSF 9984 South at the beginning of Colorado’s Joint Line single track at Palmer Lake on May 2, 1999, the dispatcher advises you are waiting for UP 8080 North. ... (more)

Built in UP's Omaha shops in 10/61 as Coal Turbine units 8080 and 8080b. 8080 was originally Union Pacific Alco PA-1 #607; 8080B was originally Great Northern GE electric #5018, purchased by U... (more)