Working at UP
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Kearney, Nebraska
My family and I moved to Kearney, Neb., in November 1966. My dad was the local agent for the Railway Express Agency ther...
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Harter Yard Memories
My railroad career began almost 45 years ago at what today is Union Pacific’s Harter Yard in Oklahoma City. The Rock I...
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The Lambert Railroad Family.
As far back as I can remember, my grandfather, my father, myself and my son have worked for the railroad. First with t...
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
My dad was a fireman on the extra board and had to go to Cheyenne, Wyo., to work on account there were no positions with...
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Big Boy Locomotives Steam in Denver, Colorado
My dad had fired a Big Boy Steam Locomotive from Laramie, Wyo., to Denver, Colo. He arrived home to my mother and me, ...
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Timing
I was very fortunate to be hired by Southern Pacific in Denver in 1995. As a divorced single mother of three, I needed ...
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Brave New World
One of my earliest memories of working for the Missouri Pacific railroad was being on call for temporary vacancies that ...
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UP Changed My World and Maybe Yours
I did not grow up around a railroad, have no family ties and didn’t even know anybody that worked on the railroad. I...
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Cliff Guild, Retired After 40 Years Service
My Grandfather, Morris Marlow, also worked for Union Pacific back in the 1950s. I started working on the Railroad Octobe...
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Hancock
I come from a very big railroading family. Both of my grandfathers work for the railroad - one as a conductor, the othe...
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The railroad has fed me my whole life
My Dad hired on with Southern Pacific in October 1972 as a sheetmetal worker. I was born in August 1975. The summer righ...
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Omaha Shops
Officially, I started my 16-year railroad career on Halloween 1973, as a new Machinist Apprentice. However, my earliest ...
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The Calm Before The Storm
The year would be 1986, and the location would be the UPRR, North Platte Bailey Yards, North Platte, Neb. Steven M. Str...
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Railroaders - "Good People"
As a young boy, I was what we call in the industry, a “foamer.” I loved trains. This fascination probably was a res...
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Railroad Career Starts in High School
I joined the railroad as a way to save money for college, but in the process was building a legacy that began with my gr...
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The MoPac Eagle
I recall traveling by passenger train in the 1960s. Mom would often take my sister, brother and me on the Missouri Paci...
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From Displaced Person to Section Hand and Weed Burner
My father, Herbert Tast, and his family emigrated from Germany to the Yutan area in mid-1952 to start a new life in Amer...
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Railroad careers and heredity
A few years after being hired at Union Pacific in Omaha, I discovered my Great-grandfather Henry Steinbeck had worked fo...
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No Greater Job
In 1929, Robert (Bob) L. Marks began his UPRR career, and until his untimely death in 1971, Bob demonstrated his profoun...
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Railroad Brat
My Great Grandfather, John W. Hamilton was a switchman for the MOP in 1900 and lived in Thebes, (Alexander County), Ill....
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Signal Inspector
My grandfather, Elvis P. Robinson, was a bridgetender on the railroad (Cotton Belt). My father then started with the Cot...
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Peter Krauss, 51 Years of Continuous Union Pacific Service
My brother, Jack, and I were fortunate to grow up in a three-generation household in Ogden, Utah. Ogden was a bustling r...
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Building Track in Downtown Omaha and the Zoo, 1970
In 1969, I was 18 years old. My father arranged for me to work for UP during one summer through our neighbor, who I was...
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Fond Memories Of Days Gone By
Having just been hired to work as a switchman in the Omaha yards, I worked the midnight shift, extra board. I remember h...
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My Father, A True Union Pacific Man!
I am proud to be the son of a great Union Pacific father! My daddy, Overton Zinn, worked at the Ogden Yard Office in m...
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All the folks I worked with.
All the folks I worked with at Union Pacific, just great people. I learned a lot and had many friends. I am retired no...
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It's a Small World
Union Pacific is a big railroad, but it is a very small world. My first year in Omaha, I attended a UP Softball Tournam...
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MY FAMLY WORKED FOR UP
My father and my uncle both worked on the UP. My dad worked in Kellogg, Idaho, and my uncle in Spokane, Wash. I remember...
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HAPPY RAILROADER
I started work on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, St Louis, Mo., in June 1956, in the Car Accounting department. I worked...
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The secret message
The RAILROAD WAS MY DESTINY! When I was two years old, my Dad gave me a toy train for Christmas . It made sparks and ca...
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Tribute to My Father
My father Louis "Eddie" Nave, started working for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1950 in Las Vegas, Nev., running from La...
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Union Pacific Fans in Massachusetts
Growing up in Fall River, Mass., in 1958, we Boy Scouts were big Union Pacific train fans. Of course, there was no UP p...
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An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Edd Bailey
Edd Bailey was my Great-Great Uncle, whom I just recently learned was an integral part of your organization as President...
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Who would have thought
When I was 10 years old, I use to sit on the wall at the back of my house with my friends, and wait for the train, just ...
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