Light snow and sun catch UP 8719 (SD70ACe) as it gets ready to enter the Hermosa Tunnels on the Transcon Line in Wyoming.

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4879 leads a westbound freight as it heads into a setting sun exiting the cut leading to the Hermosa Tunnels at Hermosa, Wyoming, on March 25, 2008.

A Westbound manifest freight with a single unit on the head-end is seen exiting the Hermosa Tunnels as it descends Sherman Hill toward Laramie. The original bore was dug in 1901 for the realignmen... (more)

UP 1943 leads a high-wide special movement over Sherman Hill on UP's Laramie Subdivision as it approaches the Hermosa Tunnels. The high-wide movement is a NASA rocket booster for the Artemis II ro... (more)

Approaching Hermosa Tunnels while climbing the grade to Sherman Hill is an eastbound Union Pacific stack train at Hermosa, Wyoming, on September 25, 2003. Trailing lead UP EMD SD70M No. 4363 is a ... (more)

Crossing Wyoming’s Sherman Hill on the afternoon of September 12, 2007, is a westbound Union Pacific stack train, passing through one of the Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2.

Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 and UP GP9 225 are seen leading a freight near Hermosa Wyoming on August 5th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The North Yard (Denver), CO to Green River, WY manifest train emerges from the famous Hermosa Tunnels on Sherman Hill. Traces of leftover snow from the previous snow storm can still be found on th... (more)

Eastbound approaching Hermosa Tunnels.

Coming off the iconic Tie Siding ...

Bending into the Hermosa Tunnels cut, UP 7868 comes into a brief sunny moment amid the smoky air from the Oregon fires of 2021.

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight passes under the signal bridge at Hermosa, Wyoming, while working over Sherman Hill, on the morning of September 12, 2007.

While climbing over Sherman Hill on May 28, 2009, two brand new Union Pacific GE ES44ACs power an eastbound intermodal train through the curves at Hermosa, Wyoming.

HERMOSA WY Oct 19 1977 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3202 and U-30C 2880 haul a live animal train west across the plains on approach to Hermosa Tunnel. If memory serves me correct the cars were loaded ... (more)

The sky is smoky from the fires in Oregon even as far east as Wyoming. However, the sun still lights up the nose of an Eastbound double stack train as it enters the West Portal Hermosa cut.