BNSF 3794 ES44C4 7-16-2021 1600

BNSF 6776 (ES44C4) leads a stack train that has come from Denver into the BNSF yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

70 years ago it would have been a common sight to see a Big Boy engine rounding the curve and the water tank at Speer, Wyoming.

UP 4014 (4-8-8-4) looks like its back in the 1950's as it heads back to the large yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The good looking Swan Ranch Railroad units pair up to move a cut of hoppers and coil cars in the yard at Speer, Wyoming.

UP 7608 (AC45CCTE) passes under a bridge as it heads towards Cheyenne on Track 1.

UP 7692 (ES44AC) heads towards Speer, Wyoming, passing the many windmills that are erected west of Cheyenne.

The Union Pacific's 4014 Big Boy engine passes a group of sunflowers as it moves out of the yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Speer
Another study at the Speer tank. Flowering natural high plains botanicals add some color to the steel and iron beast

The Union Pacific did a test run of the 4014 Big Boy engine. The team ran backwards between Cheyenne and Speer, Wyoming, then reversed direction letting 4014 lead the way home.

UP 7608 (ES44AC) leads a container train east towards Cheyenne, one of many such trains throughout the day moving merchandise.

Thanks to lucky timing a BNSF freight heading south to Denver passes over a Union Pacific westbound train leaving the Cheyenne Yard at dawn.

UP 4014 was given a test run today by running backwards from Cheyenne to Speer, Wyoming, and then running forward back to the massive Yard in Cheyenne.

Overland Route Artifacts
Home turf for the Big Boy.

Master of His Vessel
All the right moves and some supporting infrastructure.