UP's Heritage Fleet... Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific, M-K-T, Rio Grande, Chicago NorthWestern

UP 1982                MISSOURI PACIFIC               Side Shot

                                The front of the unit has the "eagle" wing logo from the daze of   passenger
                                service, along with a baby blue color from the same era.  The cab sports the
                                 "buzzsaw" logo, with a giant, oversized 'modern' logo on the cab.  The more
                                modern dark blue covers the back half of the unit.  Overall ranking, 4 of 6

UP 1983                WESTERN PACIFIC                Side Shot (sorry, no sun at the time... )

                                Unit wears orange and green striping on the front, with large "WP" on the
                                front.  Huge, oversized feather logo on the side with gray covering the back
                                of the unit.  Overall ranking, 6 of 6.  Not sure where the gray came from, but
                                they used a lot of it.

UP 1988                MISSOURI-KANSAS TEXAS          Alternative Shot              Overhead Shot

                                Front of the unit bears the "Texas Star" logo on the front, entire unit is a
                                two-tone red stripe scheme.  This is a very sharp design, but its too bad
                                the "other" yellow and green scheme couldn't be incorporated (would
                                have been both ugly and almost impossible)  Overall ranking; 2 of 6

UP 1989                DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN           Alternative Shot    Side Shot

                                Includes a classic logo on the front, with an older classic paint scheme
                                with "artist's interpretation" of Rocky Mountains which also tie into the old
                                logo.  Unfortunately, they used a ton of gray in this, which doesn't have much
                                to do with the DRGW.  Due to too much artsy, and too much gray, this one
                                ranked 5 of 6.

UP 1995                CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN        Alternative Shot           Side Shot

                                This unit wears a classic "employee owned" logo on the front, with an over-
                                sized 'lightning stripe" on the cabs.  Behind the lightning, the unit sports a
                                yellow and green scheme similar to the 1970s "split cab" scheme, complete
                                with a large CNW logo.  The tribute doesn't fall far from the real CNW scheme
                                and isn't draped with 'overinterpretation,' so it ranks top out of the six.
 

UP 1996                SOUTHERN PACIFIC                Alternative Shot                  Side Shot            

                               A combination of "black widow" and "daylight" paint, the creativity of this
                               unit ranks it among the top three.  I haven't caught this one in person yet.
                               This one, and the CNW HU, look the least like "UP" locomotives in my
                                opinion.