A railfan friend of mine sent me these pics. One of his friends took all of these photos in the 1950's. They photographer is Alan K. Weeks. Some great color pics! Enjoy! Matt
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Those are some great UP machines....cant help but wonder where they all are now ?
Great photos. Some nice shots in there of the 4000's and the Verandas....excellent. 
Chris
Cool
Thx for posting
Joe S 
Very nice photos.. but, the gem, for me, is the first one. That's 4018, which is part of our railroad museum, formerly at Fair Park in Dallas, now in Frisco. Nice to see it in action - thanks!!
Beautiful Pictures... How often do you see such great color photography for 1950's images.
The picture below appears to be a GE Gas Turbine. Is that correct. Does anyone model this?
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great stuff!!
Lots of U.P. photos in this here slide show. All taken in the mid-sixties. Make some popcorn and enjoy.
Originally Posted by Wood:
Beautiful Pictures... How often do you see such great color photography for 1950's images.
The picture below appears to be a GE Gas Turbine. Is that correct. Does anyone model this?
UP veranda is one if my favorite locomotives, immense and impressive. Lionel and MTH
makes models of these & they were certainly loud.
Nice video. Here's a screen shot from it. That's the cab ride I want!
Nathan
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Originally Posted by neuefruhling:
Nice video. Here's a screen shot from it. That's the cab ride I want!
Nathan
Nice! I really enjoy the Big motive power of the UP In its glory days of the 1940's- 60's..
That slide show absolutely KICKS ! This is what I wanted to be doing in that time frame, but who was I kidding with a Kodak Instamatic !!!
Originally Posted by Wood:
Beautiful Pictures... How often do you see such great color photography for 1950's images.
The picture below appears to be a GE Gas Turbine. Is that correct. Does anyone model this?
Wood,
MTH models it. Matt
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Thanks Matt, There is a thread currently running about the Veranda and it simply didn't click when I was reading this post. They are BIG - O72 curves and I do not have O72, but I am looking at some space to remodel and maybe... This engine is an eye catcher and so unusual. I've definitely got a taste for this one????
Once again thanks for posting these beautiful photos. It was also fun looking at the right of way and seeing all the "real life" detail of that period.
It looks like pretty light rail to hold those big boys. Does anyone recall the weight of the rail back then on the main line?
Originally Posted by Quick Casey:
Lots of U.P. photos in this here slide show. All taken in the mid-sixties. Make some popcorn and enjoy.
Quick Casey, I can not open this site..
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Originally Posted by Quick Casey:
Lots of U.P. photos in this here slide show. All taken in the mid-sixties. Make some popcorn and enjoy.
Quick Casey, I can not open this site..
Others here did. This is the only link to it I have. I do use Firefox as a web browser. Can anyone here help?
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Originally Posted by Quick Casey:
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Originally Posted by Quick Casey:
Lots of U.P. photos in this here slide show. All taken in the mid-sixties. Make some popcorn and enjoy.
Quick Casey, I can not open this site..
Others here did. This is the only link to it I have. I do use Firefox as a web browser. Can anyone here help?
Thanks. It works on my PC with MS Explorer, when I was away it would not work with my Ipad. There are many interesting photos " the twilight years for many of these engines and railroads".
The Veranda Turbine is doing well in all scales right now. There's the Athearn and MTH (old Lionel ) in HO scale, and the new MTH O gauge version. Lionel also made this loco in O gauge some years back as well. Have fun! .....at least you guys with large radii !
Thanks for posting.
Along side of the PRR, the UP has always been my second favorite!
AF
