Founded in the mid-1860s along the Overland State Coach Route, Laramie is today very much a railroad town. An Eastbound intermodal train is seen passing through the historic downtown.

Big Boy 4014 with 844 on their way back to Cheyenne, WY

Big Boy 4014 with 844 on their way back to Cheyenne, WY

Hollis & Eastern has made its way from Oklahoma up to the cement plant southeast of Laramie WY for its next life. Built as Illinois Central 9170, it was rebuilt into a GP10, and numbered 8170, a n... (more)

A string of flatcars loaded with rail is prepared for unloading at Union Pacific’s welded rail plant at Laramie, Wyoming, on March 25, 2008.

Wyoming and Colorado FP7s 1510 and 1512 await their next excursion from Laramie in 1994.

Eastbound Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 leading the 150Th anniversary of the Transcontinental special arrive in Laramie Wyoming on the way back home to Cheyenne.

Twelve thousand ton MNPSTB-27 rolls downgrade on No.3 track between Red Buttes and Laramie, WY on a chilly early spring day. Trailing the 9283 are SP 9337, an SD45T-2, the 8002, a patched B39-8, a... (more)

An unusual train to start the day in Laramie.

A trio of MoPac GEs leads an intermodal train through Laramie. Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

A pair of former Alaska Railroad F-units were brought into Wyoming in the mid-1980s to operate the Mountain Diesel scenic passenger train. The train is seen passing through the UP's yard in Laram... (more)

A pair of former Alaska Railroad F-units were brought into Wyoming in the mid-1980s to operate the Mountain Diesel scenic passenger train. Tom Golden photo.

Just as night falls over the UP yard in Laramie, an eastbound freight lights up Big Boy 4014 and 844 on their way home from a successful run to Ogden. Tomorrow morning, the train will make the tr... (more)