The morning sun has just cracked the horizon at 5:46 a.m. on June 26, 2022, as a northbound Union Pacific coal empty rolls upgrade out of Bill toward Logan in a vast Powder River Basin.

Turbulent weather continues to flow through Powder River Basin in Wyoming on the afternoon of June 24, 2022, as a southbound BNSF coal train, just beginning its climb of Logan Hill, rolls through ... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (4-8-8-4) makes its way through the Cheyenne, Wyoming yard towards the depot, where it will lash up with the passenger cars for the run to Denver, Colorado.

Videographer Bruce Brackley has a front row seat as Big Boy UP 4014 (4-8-8-4) runs through Speer, Wyoming on its way to Denver., Colorado.

Chicago and North Western 401 is an F7(A) unit built in 1949. It served the CNW for 47 years before being retired in 1996. It now sits in the yard at the Union Pacific's roundhouse in Cheyenne, ... (more)

UP Big Boy 4014 runs through the cut at Speer, Wyoming as it begins the journey towards Denver, Colorado where it was displayed for a day at Denver's Union Station.

Ed Dickens, Union Pacific Engineer and Senior Manager of Heritage Operations for Union Pacific Railroad, works in his office on UP Big Boy 4014 as it runs through the clouds in Cheyenne, Wyoming. ... (more)

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

Engineer Ed Dickens moves the Big Boy in the Union Pacific Yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Union Pacific's monstrous Big Boy 4014 slides south onto the Greeley Subdivision en route to Denver for its only scheduled service weekend for 2022.

Stretching out across the beautiful plains of Wyoming, is one of many Union Pacific trains that haul loads of coal out of the Powder River Basin. This train races at track speed with empties for ... (more)

The mighty Cheyenne Frontier Days special is about to roll into the depot in minutes.

Of the numerous times I shot the return leg from Cheyenne to Denver, this was one of the few there was no storm...and even fewer times there was no other rail traffic waiting at the signals eastbo... (more)

2015's version of the Cheyenne Frontier Days/Denver Post special looked like this, arriving in town with revenue freight right along with it. A pretty fluid operation up there.

UP 4014 (4-8-8-4) runs east of Cheyenne, Wyoming and muscles through Archer Hill. It was just announced that instead of the longer run to California this year, the Big Boy will make a run to Denv... (more)