By the late 1950s, there were just two places in the United States that still featured big-time steam operations: The Norfolk & Western in the Appalachias, and Union Pacific in Wyoming. Cheyenne ... (more)

Completed in 1887, the imposing Union Pacific passenger station looms large in Cheyenne, Wyoming's downtown in October 1958. The station is built from blocks of sandstone quarried and transported... (more)

A UP SD60M and C40-8 have crested the grade and will start its downhill run to Cheyenne. Shot on Ektachrome 200

a westbound UP manifest train is approaching the yard at Cheyenne, WY.

Last man standing. Less than 2 months after this photo was taken, DRGW 5371 would leave Cheyenne for Utah to spend the rest of its days on display as a museum piece.

A UP SD90MAC and an ex CNW C44-9W, still painted in CNW colors, gets a fresh crew and departs the depot in Cheyenne on P1 heading west.

UP 5997 and another GE drag 844 past the beautiful Cheyenne depot during a few break in runs before the trip to Omaha. The two GE's were used in dynamic braking to create a load for the 844 to pul... (more)

Westbound UP freight gets underway out of Cheyenne a few moments ahead of UP 844's departure back to Denver.

The Denver Post Train is getting underway as it departs Cheyenne for its southbound trip back to Denver, seen here crossing over at the west end of the yard at Cheyenne and passing under the BNSF ... (more)

A mere thirty minutes earlier, a huge summer thunder storm dumped dime-sized hail and a LOT of rain. The result was a lot of pools of water that formed along the main tracks in Cheyenne. This east... (more)

With an auto train making its consists before heading west, an empty BNSF coal train slowly moves along the BNSF line for a crew change.