Tag: Union Pacific Railroad

London, Midland and Scottish Railway and The Transcontinental Railroad: It’s all the same!

Posted by Trainphilos on 28 August 2019 in Railroad History, Steam Locomotives, US Railroads |No Comments

Well, that is if one leaves it to the United States Postal Service. If my readers will remember, this May was the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first US transcontinental railroad. Brad and I went out to Utah to participate in the festivities. You can read my blog about it here. Historically, the […]

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Rail Pictures from Utah

Posted by Trainphilos on 28 July 2019 in Railroad Travel / Tourism |No Comments

Just a few of the rail related photographs we took in Utah which didn’t quite fit into the previous blog entries. Union Pacific Railroad’s 4014 and 844 at Ogden, Utah. The next morning both locomotives were double heading the UP train back to Cheyenne through the Echo Canyon.   UPRR’s 833 at the railroads museum […]

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The Golden Spike or the joining of two railroads. (Part 1)

Posted by Trainphilos on 5 June 2019 in Railroad History, US Railroads |One Comment

Just recently, the 2019 NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) convention was held in Salt Lake City, Utah. For quite some years Brad and I had decided not to attend these annual conventions. I shall be polite here and only say that these yearly gatherings just were not us. However this year was just a bit […]

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