Ending the historic 2019 steam season on a snowy high-note Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 works its train upgrade through the Terry Bison Ranch on the Greeley 'main' from Denver on the final leg of it... (more)

The Great Race to the Southwest has just begun on this beautiful September morning as UP 4014 charges up the grade through Speer, WY and on towards Southern California on September 27th, 2019.

The Great Race has begun as the Big Boy and 844 Lift their train out of Cheyenne, and up Sherman Hill in the #3 Track Harriman Line.

With three North Little Rock SD40 rebuilds running point the westbound Laramie 'Laser' continues its westbound pull up Wyoming's Sherman Hill at Speer. In this view the Laser is wrapped around the... (more)

It was just another day's worth of switching duties for the crew of Webb Asset Management's Swan Ranch Railroad at Speer, Wyoming. The clean pair of EMD's got their fair share of attention before ... (more)

The "attention getter" of the year, possibly for the 21st Century as far as some people may be concerned. U.P. 4-8-8-4 Nº4014, one of 25 built during the latter part of WWll made it's d... (more)

A few miles out of Cheyenne the Ogden bound steam double header charges up Sherman Hill on the approach to Speer.

Making its first big show, the special to Ogden passes through the cut at Speer.

With a bit of indulgence for its first on-the-fly night photo, Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 #4014, affectionately chalked on May 3, 2019, as the "Big Boy" on the front of the locomotive by Ed ... (more)

On Saturday August 15th, 2015 three of the Swan Ranch Railroad's four motors take the weekend off while enjoying the morning sun. The colorful group is made up of three La Grange graduates of the ... (more)

Dressed in parent company Watco's sharp black & yellow scheme, Swan Ranch Railroad EMDs 4155 (ex-D&RGW SD40T-2 5395) and 4200 (ex-KCS SD40 625) switch a cut of tank cars inside the Swan Ranch Indu... (more)

The May, 1985 excursion from Denver to Laramie featured Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 on the round trip between Speer Junction and Laramie. The Denver – Speer Junction legs were pulled by Centennia... (more)

With the Swan Ranch Industrial Complex in the background westbound tonnage follows a trio of EMDs into the big curve at Speer, WY. Speer is the junction between Union Pacific's cross-country Overl... (more)

A UP grain drag rolls through Speer, Wyoming behind a trio of armour yellow motors

UP 844 drifts downhill at Speer.