On the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train passes a small, abandoned homestead just north of Reno Junction on June 30, 2002.

Rare Mileage on the Overland Route Rare mileage and Rolling under the famed Ex-Colorado & Southern BNSF Front Range Subdivision 126’ thru truss bridge Amtrak 5 has just left the Cheyen... (more)

A rare event yesterday saw the California Zephyr passing through Cheyenne, Wyoming and under the Colorado and Southern steel girder bridge. Heavy rains in Nebraska washed out the track on the nor... (more)

In the clouds, eastbound stacks crest the highest point on the Transcontinental Railroad.

Eastbound Stacks cruise through Dale Junction on track No. 1. Track No.3 can be seen curving off to the left.

After helping a train over Wyoming’s Logan Hill to Bill on the morning of June 23, 2018, a Union Pacific helper scurries back to Nacco Junction to wait for another BNSF or UP coal load that need... (more)

As a BNSF coal empty cruises over Logan Hill, another BNSF coal load heads downgrade toward Bill with a pair of DPU locomotives on the rear. The top of Logan hill is near, if not at, the road over... (more)

Climbing the grade toward the Altamont Tunnel at Ragan between Leroy and Spring Valley, Wyoming, is Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Northern No. 844 (along with EMD SD70ACe No. 8937) leading a ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbs Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2021.

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming is running northbound through otherworldly landscape along the Bighorn River between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 24, 2019.

The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion train is seen with 10 cars near Harriman Wyoming on June 3rd 1967. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The National Railway Historical Society excursion train is seen near Harriman Wyoming in 1963. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Crossing Wyoming’s Sherman Hill on the afternoon of September 12, 2007, is a westbound Union Pacific stack train, passing through one of the Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2.

BNSF’s local that operates south (east) out of Greybull makes a trip through Wind River Canyon on June 28, 2021, moments after passing through Tunnel 4 between Dornick and Piper, Wyoming. In 202... (more)

Fast moving clouds part just long enough to let the sun illuminate a northbound BNSF coal empty cruising over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 25, 2022.