The scenic climb out of the Green River drainage begins immediately after leaving the yard at Green River, Wyoming. The ruling grade here is .82%, and this means high tonnage trains grind there w... (more)

A westbound Intermodal train climbs out of Green River, Wyoming on the famous Peru Hill. It must have been quite a sight watching a Big Boy pull the hill with full tonnage...... westbound trains i... (more)

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 and baggage car are set to pick up a short ferry train in the morning for Cheyenne. The locomotive was coal-fired at this time.

Four General Electric AC4400CWs glint the morning sun as they drop down Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on March 13, 2012.

A GE U30C pulls a westbound Union Pacific manifest into the Green River, Wyoming yard on July 27, 1980. The 2952 was built for the UP in September 1976 and traded to GE for a new C40-8W on Februar... (more)

The M-K-T painted Heritage engine along with UP SD70m 4720 struggle out of Green River heading Westbound with the barren Wyoming landscape in the background. The remains of the old wooden snow fen... (more)

A westbound grain train sand blasts of Peru Hill. It must of been an awesome experience to see a Big Boy crush this scene with thunderous sound and a heavy shower of cinders.....

Uniohn Pacific ES44AC 8017 is seen leading a westbound Z train up Peru Hill - 03/10/2014

UP SD70ACe 8731 and SD70M 4121 are seen passing leaving Green River, Wyoming on a westbound stack train after a crew change passing the disused Depot - 03/10/2014

Four clean burning C30-7's and one smoking SD40-2 haul a coal train west through Green River, WY. Photo taken by J.H. Lemke.

In a view between the gas pumps in front of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, a Union Pacific stack t... (more)

From inside a service bay of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town (west of Green River), Wyoming, the DPU of a westbound Union Pacific ... (more)

Silent sentinels
Railroad pole and code lines are getting more rare, but Union Pacific's right-of-way up Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming still has the silent sentinels lining the... (more)

Unit train sunrise
An eastbound unit potash train rolls toward Green River, Wyoming, over the Union Pacific on March 13, 2012.

The noisier end of a Union Pacific GE AC4400CW cast a distinct shadow in the late winter sun at Green River, Wyoming, on March 19, 2009.