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)
With a compliment of 87 soda-cans tied to the drawbar a heavy eastbound soda ash train meets a westbound manifest between Heard and Hermosa on the western slope of Sherman Hill.
As afternoon thunderheads move over the plains westbound tonnage heads west up 3 track, also known as the 'Harriman Line', at the east end of Speer. Here a hold out from the steam era still watche... (more)