Wide open space with a little snow and a Union Pacific eastbound from Shermann Hill, pulled by SD70ACe # 8500, C40-8 # 9309 and SD70ACe 9489, shoved in the rear by AC45CCTE # 7807.

UP Ge U50C 5012 leads another U50c and A DD35B west out of Cheyenne in the spring of 1974. Sadly these units were a total flop. The aluminum wiring was a main problem as they tended to catch fire... (more)

UP 844 leads the "Sooner Rocket" out of Cheyenne as it nears the top of Archer Hill on a late summer morning. 844 is on its way to Oklahoma to help celebrate the state's Centennial. Shot on Fu... (more)

Winter Solstice

The softness of beautiful winter evening light captivates the frozen steam from his majesty the Big Boy. Wasatch class 4-8-8-4 is nearly home after an astoundin... (more)

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of classy EMD E9s is preparing to depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, with a passenger train on the morning of July 10, 2009.

This attractive Webb Asset Management engine #4184 can be found working at an oil facility on the south side of Cheyenne, Wyoming. This engine was built in 1979 as an SD40-2 for the Missouri Paci... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight has stopped in front of the depot at Cheyenne waiting for a fresh crew as the old crew, grips in hand, steps off lead locomotive, EMD SD40-2 No. 3718, and heads f... (more)

Homage to Otto

Overcast and fog conditions grip Sherman Hill and the east slope to Cheyenne. The Big Boy is rolling in along Otto Road on the Overland Route.

During one of Union Pacific’s gracious steam shop tours 4014 gets some off season work next to 844. This was the last time I saw 4014 and with the current situation, there’s no telling when this b... (more)

On a cool September morning, the exhaust and whistle of a Big Boy was once again heard thundering beneath the now BNSF bridge at the west end of Cheyenne’s yard.

Challenger at Archer Hill UP Challenger #3985 is on the final leg of a tour to Texas and Arkansas which had lasted over a month and included 10 states. All that road time shows, as the loc... (more)

On July 4, 1999, a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe rumbles over the bridge spanning Union Pacific’s busy main line at Cheyenne, Wyoming. This location is on BNSF’s Front Range Subdivision ... (more)

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 In a Heavy Snow storm on Sherman hill in the the fall of 1984. Yes they really did many photo runbys on that day even in these conditions.

An eastbound stack train passes a 1949 Plymouth Deluxe which sits in a field west of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

BNSF 3491 (ET44C4) leads a long windmill blade train through the vast open prarie land southwest of Cheyenne, Wyoming.