UP 9339 and CNW 8558 lead a 69 car ASENP-22 (Seattle-North Platte) through the curves between Dale Jct. and "old" Dale on the climb to Sherman.

Sherman Granite Alpen Glow
5-8 minutes after the sun popped over Sherman Summit an eastbound fast moving manifest made a timely appearance for the camera. The great Rock Peopl... (more)

UP 6848, CNW 8821 and UP 8218 lead 105 cars of coal up the grade to Sherman as they near "Old Dale", a short distance east of Dale Jct. The train is passing a formation of Sherman granit... (more)

A Centennial EMD locomotive passes under an absolute cantilever signal under a beautiful Wyoming sky. Duplicate Ektachrome. Photographer: Jack Hawkins. John E. Troxler Collection

Track 3 near Perkins

Slow moving monster train negotiates the cuts and fills on the Harriman Cutoff between Harriman and Perkins.

Deep in the Harriman Cutoff

Through the cuts and over the high fills in Albany County, WYO. Westbound priority autos hurries through the Harriman Cutoff from Cheyenne with a gr... (more)

Surrounded in Granite

Negotiating the S turn around the Sherman Granite at Dale eastbound high stepping Z slips between the immense rocks on the western slope of Sherman Hill. ... (more)

Overland Route Sunset

Near Dale Junction a certain western magic lives in harmony with nature and the Transcontinental Railroad. A place of legends and mythos, a beautiful plac... (more)

Westbound priority Z flies through the tangents at the Sherman Granite near Dale, WYO. The fragile high altitude botanicals are in full bloom on this most famous of hills at Dale Creek Junction.

A trio of Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs power an eastbound grain train through Dale, Wyoming, while crossing Sherman Hill between Laramie and Cheyenne on May 3, 2007.

A westbound Union Pacific “K-Line” stack train passes by the unique rock formations at Dale, Wyoming, while crossing Sherman Hill on October 16, 2007.

As westbound tonnage works up grade towards Dale Junction on three track in the foreground an eastbound empty grain train in the distance has just hit the bottom above Dale Creek, the eastbound wi... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific “van” train, led by EMD DDA40X “Centennial” No. 6917, approaches Dale Junction on a desolate spring day on Wyoming’s Sherman Hill in April 1984.

Completed by 1953 Union Pacific's third main track over Sherman Hill, also known as the 'Harriman Line', traded 10 extra miles for an easier gradient for heavy westbounds on the busy Overland Rout... (more)

The familiar rise at Dale, Wyoming is captured in the reflection on the side of one of Union Pacific’s excursion coaches. Standing in the Dutch door was a fine way to see Sherman Hill.