PAs on the Pony Express

PAs on the Pony Express

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Union Pacific Pony Express Alco

An Alco PA/PB/PB consist leads the Union Pacific’s Pony Express across the desert near Victorville, Calif., in the early 1950s. The railroad’s 14 PAs and PBs were assigned to passenger service in the West.
Donald Sims photo

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