EMD SD70 series
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The EMD SD70 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives manufactured by Electro-Motive Diesel. This locomotive family is an extension and improvement of the EMD SD60 series. Production commenced in la
UP 1996, an SD70ACe wearing a Southern Pacific Railroad heritage livery
Illinois Central SD70 No. 1004
Union Pacific SD70M No. 4352
Canadian National SD70I No. 5619
Union Pacific Railroad
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is th
EMD SD70 series
…began (the EPA's Tier 2 regulations went into effect on January 1, 2005). A total of 1,609 SD70Ms were produced. The vast majority were purchased by Union Pacific, but some were bought by New York, Susquehanna & Western (NYSW; part of EMDX order no. 946531), Norfolk Southern, and Southern Pacific. In 2000, Union…
UP #2723, a GE ET44AC, leading an intermodal train eastbound near inland California.
The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University
The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill (1881)
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad gather on the 100th meridian, which later became Cozad, Nebraska, about 250 miles (400 km) west of Omaha in the Nebraska Territory, in October 1866. The train in the background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives.