Union Pacific/Denver Post Frontier Days train at Union Pacific Depot in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

It's just after sunrise as UP's North Platte, NE to Denver, CO manifest, led by UP SD70ACe no. 8740, slowly rolls into Cheyenne, WY after getting instructions from Cheyenne Tower to come on in.

Afternoon storm clouds are gathering as Union Pacific turbine 18 climbs Archer Hill out of Cheyenne with an eastbound extra. On June 22, 1965 the big blow is half way through its life on UP. One o... (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.

Westbound departs Cheyenne on track 3 headed for Sherman Hill

Westbound freight approaching Speer Track 3

Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)

With the roar and the smoke-blast of a jet plane, Extra 25 West storms out of Cheyenne and heads for Sherman Hill. UP is already at work raising the 8500-hp units to 10,000 horses, making them the... (more)

One of a handful of the original full-carbody Alco-GE turbines still on the roster in March, 1964, GTEL 58 waits at the east end of the Cheyenne yards to take an extra to North Platte. In its rest... (more)

The nose of GTEL 59 points westward toward Sherman Hill and Lzramie on July 26, 1959, as the big turbine thunders under the C&S overpass at the west end of Cheyenne with an extra. Over on Highway ... (more)

Storming Archer Hill in a March snowstorm about to become a blizzard, U50 32 and a pair of GP30B’s head an extra out of Cheyenne for North Platte. Less than a year old in 1964, all three engines... (more)

I arrived at Harriman just as the train arrived and this was a real grab shot. But it has a dramatic quality that perhaps offsets the considerable technical faults. I had taken a previous shot ar... (more)

Just in from the east, Extra 3949 eases through the Cheyenne yards past construction of a new yard tower. A high-railer paces the train on the adjoining track. Soon, a Big Boy will take over for t... (more)

"Big Boy" 4004 is not 4014, and will never get the chance to come alive. Since a few months, this "big brothers" are less than a mile apart, but 4004 we could see, while 4014 is hidden in the roun... (more)

In the Swan Ranch Industrial Park neer Speer, south of Cheyenne, we found this GP30M idling, built in 1963 and former running for the Yellowstone Valley Railroad. Since december 2011 she is switch... (more)