I used to go to the Union Pacific yard, near the City of Commerce Ca., just outside L.A. with my sons, and we would watch the yard action.
Also there was a small siding and switching office in the City of Industry, where we would go and then watch some industry switching action.
This was back in the 80’s when there was UP, SP and Santa Fe.
Each road had its own charm and manuevers.
Loved watching them switch and see the Mainliners with four Locos highballing
down the track.
Hey Vampire
Is that the one at the NHRA track in Pomona?
would the UP really be considered a Western railroad, because their HQ is in Omaha Nebraksa, and the UP has a strong presence in the midwest after the take over of the cnw
hello fellow UP fans and especially Pennfan… i model the UP i like them coz of their heritage and how well they look after their locos hehe
on another topic the westernrailforum is pretty good… the members are pretty good 
theres some good discussion in there
OZJIM
Thank you and Gusso, is that you?
yes it is mate[:)]
I am a fan of the Mighty UP, its kinda funny cause i belong to a club of promanently SP so I always receave crap, but the way i look at it is Im not modeling the actuall railroad just a small version of the rail road. I definently disagree with the way UP behaves. but I have always liked there paint schem and all there famous Locomotives from the 4-12-2, Big Boy, Challenger, FEF’s to there turbine locos and the mighty Centenialls,. now those were cool. I do some times wonder if things would have been better if SP would have baught UP in stead of the other way around, well I guess will never know.
After reading some in this forum the railroad companies would go out of their way and have model companies tout their roads on the models.
Its a kind of PR for the railroad so they paid.
what goes around comes around I guess.
I like the UP but it does bugger me the profit motive in the useage of the models and logos for a RR, but I dont know how big of a profit that can really be off of models that a kit may be 5-10 bucks, which could only really be some pennies.
Well I own Bowser’s Big Boy and 2 Challengers, but not directly modeling the UP, but I will be able to run the engines.