Having just joined the 'Overland Main' at Speer Junction the annual CFD special drops down grade into Cheyenne with a trainload of passengers eager to attend Frontier Day's opening ceremony. For t... (more)
Situated between Fort Steele and Walcott Union Pacific's busy Laramie Subdivision cuts through a remote canyon, affectionately known by locals as Rattlesnake Canyon. Beneath the sandstone rocks at... (more)
A brief break in the afternoon's thunderstorm finds westbound grain loads struggling up 3-track at the west end of Harriman. Power on this day includes a current (UP 3663) and a former (NS SD70ACu... (more)
'Main line through.....Wyoming?' As a weather front begins to push in over Wyoming Union Pacific 1989, D&RGW heritage unit, has a hold of westbound tonnage dropping down grade from Pine Ridge into... (more)
Completed by 1953 Union Pacific's third main track over Sherman Hill, also known as the 'Harriman Line', traded 10 extra miles for an easier gradient for heavy westbounds on the busy Overland Rout... (more)