Union Pacific Museum

Our museum features more than 150 years of American railroad stories told through unique artifacts and immersive interactive games. Admission is free.

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A.J. Russell stereograph photo of railroad bridge building in 1868. Green River, Wyoming. Plate No. 176.

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Check out this station! Next to it is the last car of a passenger train, named on the drumhead as the “San Francisco Limited,” from the F.M. Gill Collection, Album 2.

Do you know where this station is located?

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August 20 is National Radio Day!

With the advent of a ‘portable’ radio, people could listen to music in even the most scenic of places! Like Bryce Canyon National Park, circa 1925.

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Do you watch movies or binge some episodes of a T.V. series?

So did the folks in 1929! In this photo, the passengers on Union Pacific’s “Los Angeles Limited” passenger train, watching a movie, while the train IS IN MOTION!

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Sharing another photograph from the promotional campaign by Union Pacific’s safety department bulletin, circa 1955. Does anyone know what he’s doing wrong?

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A.J. Russell stereocard photograph of Bear River bridge in Corrine, Utah, c1869. Plate No. 505.

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A conductor uses the radio perched in this unusual caboose. Who knows the model? Whatever it is, they had a great view!

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Missouri Pacific’s diesel shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, 1955.

These locomotives were getting an overhaul.

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This railroad yard looks very different today!

This photograph was taken in 1877-78. In 2026, this is still an operating Union Pacific yard. Do you know where this is? HINT: It’s Mile 0 for Union Pacific!

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Union Pacific’s upper dining room of a domeliner dining car, in the 1950s. In that era, UP was trying to give travelers an ‘elevated’ experience, in more ways than one! Reportedly, the food wasn’t too bad either!

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We have a question for the audience!

Our records say that this photo of Union Pacific’s M-10000 Streamliner was taken during its National Tour in 1934. However, we don’t know where this was taken! Do you recognize this location? Leave a comment below!

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30 years ago today, July 20, 1996, Union Pacific locomotives, the “Challenger” locomotive, UP 3985, and the “Living Legend,” UP 844, posed outside the Steam Shop, Cheyenne, Wyoming, by Union Pacific photographer William W. Kratville.

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Do you stream music or podcasts while traveling?

Can you believe that so did the folks traveling in the 1920s?!

This photograph shows the first testing of an AM Melodrone radio inside a business car attached to UP’s “Overland Limited” passenger train in October 1924.

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Today is National Teddy Bear Picnic Day!

Union Pacific booklet cover from 1940, “the Swing is to Yellowstone.”

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121 years ago, on July 7, 1905, McKeen Motor Car No. 2 was being constructed in Omaha, Nebraska.

Curious about what McKeen Motor Cars look like when they’re in use? Check out our photograph archive with those and more! - https://t.co/ZWAM43nIMR

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Southern Pacific bridge across the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, October 1877.

This bridge was Southern Pacific Railroad’s first bridge across the Colorado River!

Bonus – name the bridge type in the comments!

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Trilevel enclosed autorack at the Mead Transfer, Long Beach, California,1976.

Do you recognize the make of any of those automobiles?

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June 23, 1999, photograph of the “Dynamite Gang,” replacing ties near Troy, California, working under foreman, Mike Graham.

Learn more about dynamite and how railroads use ‘blasting’ at the UP museum!

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Today is the Summer Solstice, and spring 2026 has officially ended.

Flowers, like the Columbine, often appeared in Union Pacific advertisement and as named train service. Menu from the Columbine service,1934.

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June 19, 1950, this photograph was taken of Eber Maxwell, the yardmaster of ‘C’ Yard at East Los Angeles.