Better Days. While looking structurally sound, close inspection shows lots of needs to refurbish this late era D&RGW caboose. This was one of several cabooses in the yard, and I understand ... (more)

Getting Underway Big Boy and the UPSteam Team are just getting underway for testing to Emkay, WY.

Union Pacific E9 set of UP 949, 963B & 951 outside the Cheyenne, WY Union Pacific roundhouse on June 2, 1995. The 3 unit set of E9's had been running back and forth in the yard and were now sittin... (more)

Cheyenne Frontier Days Replica Union Pacific 4014 poses for me between the roundhouse and the Cheyenne Depot.

PNYNY South Union Pacific 1616 rolls west under the BNSF on its way to Denver.

A "chalk-free" Big Boy leads a passenger special to Denver in order to be in place for a run during what would have been the annual Denver Post CFD run. The noise leaving Cheyenne was p... (more)

UP 3806 (SD70M) leads a manifest train through the signal tower in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

When UP announced the singular trip for #4014 this year would be south to Denver on a Thursday, north to Cheyenne on a Saturday, right around the middle of July....all I could think of was the old... (more)

The industrial area of Commerce City, north of the Denver skyline, provides a gritty scene for the Union Pacific's 'BIG BOY' steam locomotive #4014 (4-8-8-4) as it runs back to Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 'BIG BOY' #4014 backs under the signal bridge in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after a long day of travel from Denver to the steam shop in Cheyenne.

Passenger special returns to Denver after passengers took in the wild wonders of the annual Frontier Days. While not advertised as such, today's round trip from Denver basically was the old Denve... (more)

Coming down into the sunrise, one of UP's older engines (actually built in 1994 at C&NW 8695) still pilots hotshots such as this eastbound passing through Borie. The Borie Cutoff line is visible b... (more)

Built in 1968 as a Canadian National SD40, this locomotive is now 57 years old, with a life that saw it upgraded to an SD40-2 for BN/BNSF. Now it moves various traffic for WAMCO road Swan Ranch Ra... (more)

No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)

Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.