A CNW C40-8 and SD60 along with a UP SD40-2 pull a train of gondolas through Dale Junction on Sherman Hill. Snow fences are common on Sherman Hill, placed to control snow drifts.

A coal train crests the hill on Sherman Hill. A trio of GE's handles this train with ease.

Union Pacific 3985 is spending the early morning hours resting in the Cheyenne Roundhouse. Photograph taken with permission.

UP 6880 brings up the rear on an eastbound manifest rolling into Cheyenne for a crew change.

UP 3201 has turbo charger issues as itself and another SD40-2 lead the west job (Wycon Switch) out west to switch Wycon/DynoNobel west of Cheyenne.

Challenger with elephant ears
Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger No. 3985 loads returning passengers on the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days train at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the afternoon of J... (more)

In honor of General Norman Schwarzkopf who passed away today (December 27, 2012), this shot shows top brass from nearby F. E. Warren airbase and the governor of Wyoming (Mike Sullivan, cowboy hat ... (more)

While changing crews on a cold, rainy April 1984 night, an eastbound Union Pacific freight pauses in front of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, depot. The new crew is on, and very soon, the train will depart... (more)

UP Turbine #21 at Cheyenne, WY in May 1968.

Another view of UP Turbine 3, at Cheyenne, Wy on May 11, 1968. Do not ask me why the coupler is freshly painted white --- I do not know. But I could suspect the locomotive or the tightlock ... (more)

UP Turbine 17, Cheyenne, Wyo. May 11, 1968. A glimpse of UP 3985 4-6-6-4 behind the switch target, and a another Turbine nose.

The class unit herself 6900 with different font numbers, the first of 45 Centennials, has left Cheyenne and climbs eastward up Archer Hill, a favorite photo location on the elevated curve.

Union Pacific’s Steve Lee carefully watches Challenger No. 3985 slowly backing into UP’s Steam Shop at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on October 9, 2008. The articulation of the 4-6-6-4 is quite obvious o... (more)

UP #844 leads the Frontier Days Special into Cheyenne.

UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.