Looking two or three miles away, an eastbound empty autorack train bound for the Canadian National Railway rounds the sweeping curve just west of Pine Bluffs, WY. The Colorado Rockies can be seen ... (more)

With wind and rain blowing through Powder River Basin, DPU’s of a northbound BNSF coal train pass through Converse Junction, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014, passing another BNSF SD70MAC DPU on a trai... (more)

An SD70AH brings up the rear of this eastbound Lathrop, CA to Global III (Rochelle), IL stack train, as it heads through Archer just east of Cheyenne, WY. The train has just passed under US-HWY 30... (more)

With stormy skies over Cheyenne, a westbound Union Pacific freight heads for Speer on Track 3 for a trip over Sherman Hill, Wyoming, on the afternoon of May 25, 2011.

Under dark, rainy skies, a BNSF coal empty is westbound at Dutch, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 14, 2014.

An eastbound BNSF coal train swings through the curves approaching Dutch, Wyoming, on the morning of June 21, 2014.

Westbound freight of the Union Pacific over Sherman Hill on main 3 near Perkins with a trio of SD70M # 5097, 4730 and 4914.

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.

The Chicago & North Western Heritage engine heads East through the curves at Archer Hill.

The coal fields of Wyoming always attract the newest technology. The grades and adverse conditions in the Powder River Basin make it a proving ground for newest and the best locomotives. In 1996 t... (more)

A westbound BNSF empty coal train approaches East Coal Creek in Powder River Basin, Wyoming, on June 14, 2014, as rain and thunderstorms blow in from the west.

A Veranda turbine helps Big Boy 4020 with a reefer train over Sherman Hill. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.

BNSF #8943 reflects on itself in the polished railhead on this beautiful 4th of July in Wyoming. ***Photo taken from a public grade crossing of a train that was tied down and not occupied***

Heading up Sherman Hill on a Sunday afternoon.

A friendly wave from the conductor as a westbound empty coal train meets a loaded train on the high plains of Wyoming.