Engineer Ed Dickens moves the Big Boy in the Union Pacific Yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Union Pacific's monstrous Big Boy 4014 slides south onto the Greeley Subdivision en route to Denver for its only scheduled service weekend for 2022.

Stretching out across the beautiful plains of Wyoming, is one of many Union Pacific trains that haul loads of coal out of the Powder River Basin. This train races at track speed with empties for ... (more)

The mighty Cheyenne Frontier Days special is about to roll into the depot in minutes.

Of the numerous times I shot the return leg from Cheyenne to Denver, this was one of the few there was no storm...and even fewer times there was no other rail traffic waiting at the signals eastbo... (more)

2015's version of the Cheyenne Frontier Days/Denver Post special looked like this, arriving in town with revenue freight right along with it. A pretty fluid operation up there.

UP 4014 (4-8-8-4) runs east of Cheyenne, Wyoming and muscles through Archer Hill. It was just announced that instead of the longer run to California this year, the Big Boy will make a run to Denv... (more)

A trio of former Utah Central switchers sit outside the former Union Pacific roundhouse in Evanston, Wyoming, which has been restored to its former glory by the city after serving for years as a t... (more)

The clouds on Sherman Hill finally opened up enough to allow a fully lit view of a 54=car eastbound TOFC train at Dale Junction, Wyoming.

While the scattered clouds provided an interesting sky, they also made the passing of every train a nail biter during our visit to Dale Junction, Wyoming. Here a 78 car eastbound grain train skirt... (more)

A seventy-five-car westbound Union Pacific train approaches Dale Junction, Wyoming on a spring day with a schizophrenic sky.

With Colorado snowcaps in the distance, three Union Pacific SD40-2’s lead a westbound train at Dale Junction, Wyoming. The first 26 of the train’s 52 cars are auto racks.

101 empty hoppers roll west on the Union Pacific at Dale Junction, Wyoming. Three UP GE’s and a Chicago & North Western SD40-2 are pulling them over Sherman Hill.

Big Boy #4014 makes the final push towards Ogden for the Spike 150 celebrations in May 2019. Despite the snow squall, the Big Boy put on a memorable show!

Big Boy 4014 gets an early start out of Evanston on its return trip to Cheyenne.