A pair of CNW SD50s lead a UP train into Cheyenne. A hint of the merger to come a decade later.

EMD E-9 943 (187 on the number boards) leads a "B" and another "A" unit on the westbound passenger train. Photo by R.H. Kindig, A.J. Wolff Collection.

You can just feel the impatience of this scene: outbound crew is on board, waiting for the road foreman of engines to board (I don't know if that's him by the car, but I know the crew was waiting)... (more)

Union Pacific #96 is used to switch equipment around the shop area for the UP Steam crew in Cheyenne

ex MP 8008; MP 1404, then tried out with UP 1356 but it just wasn't enough for the fast pace at Cheyenne, so it sat forlornly near the museum pieces at the roundhouse.

Shhhhhh...don't tell anyone I was shooting SD40s back then! Even in 1985 the end was in the near future for the original SD40s on the "old" UP. Though the new paint looked nice, they started dro... (more)

A UP Eastbound Autorack Train is seen passing by a stopped Intermodal Stack Train at Control Point 511 on the Laramie Subdivision, just west of the UP Cheyenne Yard.

The action is pretty continuous at Cheyenne and the view off the bridge overlooking the depot is always worth a look as trains stop in pretty much the ideal position when changing crews. A uniform... (more)

westbound Cheyenne WY

Pausing only briefly for a crew change, suprisingly the next crew is not yet on board, but it won't be long and the 2nd of the afternoon fleet of 4 TOFC trains will be charging out of Cheyenne mak... (more)

3585 3702 3754 3414 power through Borie on the ascent to Sherman Hill with westbound piggybacks in September 1985.

Start on this day the 10-state South Central States Heritage Express Tour.

An SD40-2, SD40T-2, and Dash8-40B, pull a train up the hill. They're on track three and will soon be joining the other two tracks that will take them through the Hermosa tunnels. It sure was a fog... (more)

He was slowing down, and I was soooo hoping he would stop, and he did: gotcha! And then I realized that while I got one of my best rosters of a Jack, I sacrificed getting him on the "other side" ... (more)

Still in a state of disbelief that these were running again, and that I got another one on the point. All three of the 3 afternoon TOFCs from NP that day had them on the point.