A pair of UP SD70Ms, led by UP 4419, trundles westbound along the IHB mainline out of Gibson Yard, seen here passing underneath the CP Columbia control point.
No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)
Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.