This is the summit, 8,015 feet above sea level, accomplished by 7300's lashup (front and back). Now for the ~2,000 foot descent into Cheyenne.
Union Pacific's "Snow Bus" awaits the blizzards soon to come.
With frames, racks, and freight, NS train 224 is just leaving the Voltz Yard near KC. Here the train passes over the CP KC Sub at Birmingham. 224 shows to be an Inman Yard - Atlanta, GA, to Voltz ... (more)
Union Pacific's daily Salt Lake City to Denver manifest train is about to enter the upper end of Utah's Price River canyon. The grade steepens here to 2.4%.
A CP crew delivers this UP train into UP territory.