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By:Rich Varner
Dates:1/1/1980 - 9/30/2025
Album Info:These photos were taken by myself or my railfan friends over the years.
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UP #616
Title:  UP #616
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Wes was on the wrong side of the sun for this shot, but none the less, it is a classic UP (Ex-RI) GP40 moving westbound thru St. Joe's terminal yard.
Photo Date:  10/14/1980  Upload Date: 10/20/2025 11:31:33 AM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 616(GP40)
Views:  492   Comments: 1
UP #862
Title:  UP #862
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Not the usual end that a GP30 gets photographed. This shows that the rearend of a GP30 looks just like any other EMD GP series. :-) Wes says this was taken at the St. Joseph Terminal engine yard on this date.
Photo Date:  2/4/1981  Upload Date: 10/25/2025 8:45:20 AM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 862(GP30)
Views:  354   Comments: 1
UP 2520
Title:  UP 2520
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. 3rd of 3 engines on an eastbound UP freight across the lower bridge at Santa Fe Jct.
Photo Date:  2/21/1981  Upload Date: 12/17/2025 11:40:50 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2520(C30-7)
Views:  109   Comments: 1
UP 2882
Title:  UP 2882
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Lead unit on a UP/MP run thru, eastbound over the highline bridge from the UP yard at Santa Fe Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  2/21/1981  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 8:35:21 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2882(U30C)
Views:  86   Comments: 1
UP #336
Title:  UP #336
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. A close in shot of this engine. In new paint & numbers at the St. Joseph Terminal RR. New to this site.
Photo Date:  4/5/1981  Upload Date: 10/9/2025 2:12:21 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 336(GP9)
Views:  615   Comments: 1
UP #491
Title:  UP #491
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP yard engine terminal.
Photo Date:  5/16/1981  Upload Date: 10/9/2025 2:19:14 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 491(GP20)
Views:  381   Comments: 1
UP 2950
Title:  UP 2950
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trying to hide under the sanding racks at the UP yard engine terminal in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  3/20/1982  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 8:52:41 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2950(U30C)
Views:  99   Comments: 1
UP 2436
Title:  UP 2436
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Follows a sister and GP9 (#329) on eastbound UP freight at Loring crossing.
Photo Date:  5/22/1982  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 1:51:03 PM
Location:  Loring, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2436(C30-7)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
UP 2535
Title:  UP 2535
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Leads a SD40-2, C30-7 & Milwaukee SD40-2 eastbound toward K.C. just west of I-35 toll booth.
Photo Date:  5/22/1982  Upload Date: 12/17/2025 11:45:48 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2535(C30-7)
Views:  112   Comments: 1
UP 2429
Title:  UP 2429
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Leads a MoPac SD40-2 & SD40 on a eastbound freight at eastward ready track yard in Bailey yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/1983  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 1:38:45 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2429(C30-7)
Views:  109   Comments: 1
UP 2435
Title:  UP 2435
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trails a GP35, SD40-2 and leads a C30-7 on an eastbound TOFC/COFC train at Poplar Street crossing on the east side of Bailey yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/1983  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 1:49:51 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2435(C30-7)
Views:  99   Comments: 1
UP 2499
Title:  UP 2499
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trails a GP35, CNW SD40-2 & 2 sister C30-7's on a eastbound TOFC/COFC train at Poplar Street crossing at the east end of Bailey yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/1983  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 7:51:37 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2499(C30-7)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
UP 2890
Title:  UP 2890
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trails a SD40-2 on an eastbound COFC train at Front Street crossing, on the west end of Bailey yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/1983  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 8:36:36 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2890(U30C)
Views:  62   Comments: 1
UP 2459
Title:  UP 2459
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Leads a sister on an eastbound freight through Loring late in the day.
Photo Date:  6/3/1984  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 4:30:06 PM
Location:  Loring, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2459(C30-7)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
UP 2935
Title:  UP 2935
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Spliced between a UP & MKT SD40-2 on a short freight thru Santa Fe Jct., moving from west to east thru the junction.
Photo Date:  10/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 8:51:05 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2935(U30C)
Views:  84   Comments: 1
UP 3248
Title:  UP 3248
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trails a MoPac sister at "Old Cement Road" crossing at the old Amoco refinery in Sugar Creek, Mo.
Photo Date:  5/18/1985  Upload Date: 12/24/2025 5:36:46 PM
Location:  Sugar Creek, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3248(SD40-2)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
UP 3099
Title:  UP 3099
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. 3099 trails a N&W SD45 & SD40-2 on a westbound freight thru, then, one of our favorite places to railfan, Birmingham Jct. near K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  7/7/1985  Upload Date: 12/22/2025 2:34:32 PM
Location:  Birmingham Junction, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3099(SD40-2)
Views:  85   Comments: 1
UP 2507
Title:  UP 2507
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP engine terminal in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  7/27/1985  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 7:55:57 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2507(C30-7)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
UP #863
Title:  UP #863
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Must of been a snowy day in St. Joe that day. Wes caught this GP30 at the Mopac yard that morning.
Photo Date:  2/11/1986  Upload Date: 10/25/2025 8:51:21 AM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 863(GP30)
Views:  285   Comments: 1
UP #663
Title:  UP #663
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the Mopac yard in St. Joe.
Photo Date:  2/13/1986  Upload Date: 10/20/2025 11:42:08 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 663(GP40)
Views:  271   Comments: 1
UP #844
Title:  UP #844
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Not the UP #844 you would think of, this is a GP30, setting at the Mopac yard in St. Joe, Mo. on this date.
Photo Date:  2/13/1986  Upload Date: 10/23/2025 11:19:29 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 844(GP30)
Views:  284   Comments: 1
UP 2472
Title:  UP 2472
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP yard engine terminal in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  2/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 6:03:45 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2472(C30-7)
Views:  131   Comments: 1
UP #487
Title:  UP #487
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Awaiting its fate at the UP yard car shops.
Photo Date:  2/22/1986  Upload Date: 10/9/2025 2:18:21 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 487(GP20)
Views:  364   Comments: 1
UP #208
Title:  UP #208
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At MoPac's Neff yard in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  2/23/1986  Upload Date: 10/6/2025 9:22:16 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 208(B30-7A)
Views:  363   Comments: 1
UP #1409
Title:  UP #1409
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP yard car shops.
Photo Date:  5/4/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2025 1:49:58 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1409(SDP35)
Views:  216   Comments: 1
UP #209
Title:  UP #209
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. In bad shape, wrecked, at the UP yard car shops.
Photo Date:  5/4/1986  Upload Date: 10/6/2025 9:24:06 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 209(GP9)
Views:  492   Comments: 1
UP #850
Title:  UP #850
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Looking in bad shape. At the UP yard car shops in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  5/4/1986  Upload Date: 10/23/2025 11:20:29 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 850(GP30)
Views:  272   Comments: 1
UP #1717
Title:  UP #1717
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP yard engine terminal in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  5/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/21/2025 7:48:54 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1717(GP15-1)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
UP #1242
Title:  UP #1242
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At Ermin Brothers Scrap yard.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 11/1/2025 11:13:20 PM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1242(NW2)
Views:  226   Comments: 1
UP #167
Title:  UP #167
Description:  Scanned from a photo taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the Ermen Brothers scrappers in Turner. Ks.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 9/30/2025 2:36:51 PM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 167(GP9)
Views:  394   Comments: 1
UP #188
Title:  UP #188
Description:  Scanned from a photo taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the Ermen Brothers scrappers at Turner, Ks.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 9/30/2025 2:46:26 PM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 188(GP9)
Views:  370   Comments: 1
UP 2841
Title:  UP 2841
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the Irmin Brothers scrappers in Turner, Ks.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 6:20:45 PM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2841(U30C)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
UP 2866
Title:  UP 2866
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the Irmin Brothers scrappers at Turner, Ks.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 6:21:43 PM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2866(U30C)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
UP #36
Title:  UP #36
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. In bad shape, at the scrappers in Turner.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 9/29/2025 10:54:18 AM
Location:  Turner, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 36(SD45)
Views:  446   Comments: 1
UP #2284
Title:  UP #2284
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP engine terminal in Atchison.
Photo Date:  6/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/4/2025 8:16:22 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2284(GP38-2)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
UP #1400
Title:  UP #1400
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. At the UP yard car shops awaiting disposition.
Photo Date:  8/23/1986  Upload Date: 11/2/2025 3:04:01 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1400(SDP35)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
UP #561
Title:  UP #561
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Leads 2 Mopac SD40-2's & a BN C30-7 on a southbound Mopac loaded coal train at Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  8/23/1986  Upload Date: 10/18/2025 11:43:28 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 561(U23B)
Views:  266   Comments: 1
UP 3498
Title:  UP 3498
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. On a UP freight going thru Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  10/5/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2026 11:18:59 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3498(SD40-2)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
UP 3512, 2463
Title:  UP 3512, 2463
Description:  Scanned from a print I took.
Photo Date:  1/11/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2026 11:21:50 AM
Location:  Bonner Springs, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3512(SD40-2)
Views:  3   Comments: 0
UP 3051
Title:  UP 3051
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Trails sister engine #3070 at Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  1/18/1987  Upload Date: 12/21/2025 10:16:26 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3051(SD40)
Views:  109   Comments: 1
UP 3070
Title:  UP 3070
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Leads UP 3051 (another SD40) with a special train thru Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  1/18/1987  Upload Date: 12/21/2025 10:20:49 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3070(SD40)
Views:  121   Comments: 1
UP #1239
Title:  UP #1239
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. At the UP yard in Las Vegas. Heck with gambling, I'm going railfanning!
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 11/1/2025 11:12:11 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1239(SW10)
Views:  204   Comments: 1
UP 3128
Title:  UP 3128
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Stormy skies as UP 3128 sets in the UP yard in Las Vegas on this date.
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 12/22/2025 2:35:43 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 3128(SD40-2)
Views:  132   Comments: 1
UP #655
Title:  UP #655
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. I found these (#655 and UP #659) setting near downtown Las Vegas.
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/20/2025 1:13:54 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 655(GP40)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
UP #659
Title:  UP #659
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. I found these (UP #659 with #655) setting near downtown Las Vegas.
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/20/2025 1:14:46 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 659(GP40)
Views:  267   Comments: 1
UP #179
Title:  UP #179
Description:  Scanned from a photo I took. At the UP (ex-MP) Neff yard engine terminal in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  2/22/1987  Upload Date: 9/30/2025 2:43:10 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 179(B23-7)
Views:  376   Comments: 1
UP #1738
Title:  UP #1738
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. At UP/MP Neff yard in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  3/22/1987  Upload Date: 11/21/2025 7:51:05 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1738(GP15AC)
Views:  197   Comments: 1
UP 2414
Title:  UP 2414
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. At the UP/MP Neff yard in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  5/10/1987  Upload Date: 12/14/2025 11:26:22 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2414(C30-7)
Views:  131   Comments: 1
UP #244
Title:  UP #244
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Leads a UP freight westbound thru Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo. Armco steel plant in the background.
Photo Date:  5/10/1987  Upload Date: 10/6/2025 9:44:04 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 244(B30-7A)
Views:  385   Comments: 1
UP 3237
Title:  UP 3237
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Rolling thru Sheffield Jct. with a UP freight.
Photo Date:  5/10/1987  Upload Date: 12/24/2025 5:33:34 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3237(SD40-2)
Views:  73   Comments: 1


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