| Union Pacific 8500 GTEL Turbine X-18 pokes its bulldog nose out from behind a Milwaukee Road caboose at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL. From this angle, the turbine nose conjures up an image of sleek UP streamliners streaking across the desert, yet this unit was the pinnacle of freight power. UP X-18 was built in 1960, was retired in 1970, and was sold to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1992. |