Eastbound, coasting downhill after cresting Sherman Summit, a GE "heavy" holds back a freight as it heads toward a crew change in Cheyenne. The temperature is -8 degrees.

Rolling downhill, UP 2681 holds back an eastbound.

Loading at Granite. If one imagines hard enough, the train in the foreground is the eastbound City of San Francisco with an 800 class FEF-3 ripping downslope toward Cheyenne, while a 9000 c... (more)

A pair of locos manages the reload of Herzog ballast hoppers at Granite, WY. The plant in Granite has been the primary source of ballast for the Union Pacific in Nebraska and Wyoming since 1944, a... (more)

UP 5830 (ES44AC) leads a freight past its reflection at Granite, Wyoming on its way to Cheyenne.

An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The wind fence and open plains make for a classic Wyoming scene.

An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)

An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)

UP 1995, the Chicago & Northwestern heritage locomotive, is the DPU of the hot ZG2BRB as it charges hard up the grade of Main 2 at Granite.

The second section of the Global II, IL to Brooklyn, OR Z-train waste no time climbing the 1.55% grade of Sherman Hill near Granite. This was location was the site of the 2018 runaway train where ... (more)

Everybody pull! Four units on the point and two mid-train DPUs, all on-line and all chuggin', work together to lift this doublestacker of mostly domestic containers west out of Cheyenne.

Deadman Creek

Deadman Creek and the Sherman Granite near Albany County County, WYO play host to a heavy manifest on the Harriman Cutoff on track 3. 3 Flags in EMD legacy march ... (more)

UP 4014 & 844 head east at Granite along the I80 service road on their way back home to Cheyenne.

UP DDA40X 6913 with SD40-2 3485 heading west near Granite, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

Nearly 4 months after the fatal derailment near Granite, crews are still working to clear up the remnants of 3 locomotives. 2 crew members lost their lives, a reminder of the dangers involved in r... (more)