A short eastbound Union Pacific freight climbs through the sweeping “s curve” over Archer Hill, Wyoming, on March 26, 2008. A 4,000 horsepower EMD SD70M built in 2002 leads the way.
Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger No. 3985 thunders westbound on the approach to the top of Archer Hill, Wyoming, on October 9, 2008. Fireman Ed Dickens can be seen in the cab; Ed is now Manager He... (more)
A SD70ACe leads a North Platte, NE to West Colton, CA manifest heads to Cheyenne where a new crew will take over.
A Union Pacific stack train storms up Archer Hill at dawn, just east of Cheyenne, Wyo. on the morning of Friday, August 13, 2010.
Already up to track speed, the fruit reefers are leaving one super-elevated curve and entering another. Making haste for North Platte, the HF is about to go under US30.
UP 844 is eastbound at Archer Hill the Railroad Days Limited on its way to Omaha for Railroad Days.
EMD E-8 8 with 3 "B" units trailing heads the Eastbound near Archer, Wyoming. Photo by R.H. Kindig, A.J. Wolff Collection.
Just an otherwise normal spring snowstorm to liven up an otherwise perfect day chasing Centennials on borrowed time. Normally on this bridge you would be able to see Cheyenne in the distance, but... (more)
Some smoke for the photographers, some due to Archer Hill, it makes for a nice show on an otherwise gloomy day.
Just after Leaving Cheyenne for Houston and the Super Bowl, UP 3985 is cresting the hill at Archer and really starting to strech its legs.
