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Skiers adjust their gear at Soda Springs, California, circa 1950s. What is your favorite winter/snow activity?

Plating shop, circa 1919, unknown location. Plating shops were where railroad silver and tableware was maintained and polished. Who knows what this employee was doing in her heavy leather apron?

Scene in Burke, Idaho, March 1951. Now that is service!

Santa Barbara, California, circa 1950. Who else is ready for spring?

Six women look across Death Valley toward Panamint Mountain Range from Dante's View at Death Valley National Park, California. Established as a National Monument in April of 1933, Death Valley became a National Park on October 31, 1994. What is your favorite National Park?

It’s April Fool's Day! But being safe around trains is no joke! Operation Lifesaver helps raise awareness for rail safety! oli.org/?gad_source=1&… Pictured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ,1949.

April is National Welding Month! Dedicated to an industry vital to the railroad, the act of joining metals with fire has been around since the Iron and Broze Ages. Union Pacific employee is welding at the shops in North Platte, Nebraska, circa 1975.

April is also recognized as Donate Life Awareness Month, dedicated to the donation of organs, eyes and tissue. Four nurses pose on the Armed Forces Blood Procurement Car in Omaha, Nebraska, November 14th, 1951. Give us a “heart” if you donate!

This week is also National Wildlife Week! Picture of a bear in Yellowstone National Park. If not friend, why friend shaped? Disclaimer: Please do not approach wildlife.

April 22 is Earth Day! Additionally, Keep America Beautiful, the national program dedicated to cleanup and beautification of public spaces is also celebrated in April.

The Union Pacific women’s basketball team group photo, April 1930. Union Pacific added athletic clubs and sports for their employees in the mid-1920s.

Safety First! The crew from Union Pacific Freight House, Kansas City, Missouri is celebrating “Five Years, No Accident!”, on April 29, 1953.

A group of equipment and 155mm guns, at Fort Benning, Georgia, on April 5, 1940. For more information about Union Pacific’s role during wartime, check out our Wheels of War exhibit: uprrmuseum.org/uprrm/exhibits…

“Central Pacific CP 1 and Union Pacific, UP 119 seen at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869. CP 1, on the right, was pulling Central Pacific president Leland Stanford’s special train to the ceremony.

Do you hold your breath when you go through a tunnel? Would you be able to hold your breath for 6.2 miles through this rail tunnel in Colorado? UP 7067 is exiting the famous Moffat Tunnel May 15, 1999.

Expanded summer hours are back again this year!! Starting Sunday, May 25th we will be open on Sundays! From May 25th to August 31st, we will be open our regular hours plus Sundays, noon to 6!

Chinese section hands laying rail in front of the personal train car of J.B. Silvis, the nomadic Union Pacific photographer, c1870, location unknown.

We are open today!! Today is the first Sunday of the Summer! Visit the museum on Sundays from 12 to noon all summer long!

Excursion train at Cape Horn, located about 3 miles above Colfax in the Sierra Nevada, California, circa April 1866. Alfred A. Hart, photographer. Part of the "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains" stereograph album collection.

Southern Pacific’s iconic “Daylight” service passing through a Louisiana bayou, May 1952.