Testing at Speer Big Boy and the UPSteam Team conducting test runs all day for the upcoming trip.

Originally C&NW 8695, UP 9799 looks in great shape as the 31-year-old leader of a well-powered container train rolling downslope toward Cheyenne at Sunrise. The Borie Cutoff line connecting Denver... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight curves toward Borie, Wyoming, at milepost 518 on Track 1 following the original alignment over Sherman Hill. The stark snow-covered scenery doesn’t divulge that... (more)

The only sunlight I would get on a train all day … but not bad for a sunrise!

A heavy spring snowstorm doesn’t impede the westward progress of a Union Pacific stack train leaving Cheyenne at Borie, Wyoming on April 29, 2019.

A late season springtime snow blankets the the barren Wyoming landscape west of Cheyenne as an eastbound Union Pacific stack train drops downgrade on Sherman Hill between Borie and Wycon on April ... (more)

Coming off Sherman Hill an eastbound manifest is between Borie and Wycon on main track one with 'Olympic Torch Relay' SD70M 2001 bringing up the rear. Beyond the Dyno-Noble chemical plant can be s... (more)

Union Pacific GE C30-7 2451 with UP U30C 2810 and Norfolk and Western SD35 1531. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

As the last light begins to fade for the day, a westbound stack train led by Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8391 enters the shadows as it climbs up the grade towards Sherman Hill at Borie, Wyoming on M... (more)

The first of two westbound Z-Trains climbs up the grade to Sherman Hill during sunset along UP's Laramie Subdivision at Borie, Wyoming on March 17, 2017.

After getting a new crew at Speer, the hot Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah Z-Train eases down the Borie Cutoff and will enter the mainline here at Borie, Wyoming for the trip up Sherman H... (more)

Heading uphill in first light.

UP 7765 leads the westbound Z-KCBR near Borie, Wyoming.

UP 6631 leads an eastbbound manifest easing its way down Sherman Hill into Cheyenne, as a servere thunderstorm moves in from the west.