Two Centennials and a DD35B provide plenty of power for this merchandise freight passing through Laramie, WY.

Note the 8444 simmering down the track with an excursion special. Year un... (more)

From the window of an 8444 Excursion Special in probably 1968, an eastbound UP passenger train, either the City of Portland or, due to its length, maybe the City of Everywhere combin... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 No. 3202 idles on one of the yard tracks in Laramie, Wyoming on October 25, 2015. Tracks 1, 2, and 3 are in the background.

Clouds build up in the Colorado and Wyoming skies as a westbound manifest led by Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8343 rounds the s-curve on Track 3 just outside of Laramie, Wyoming on October 25, 2015.

E8 925 was originally a C&NW E7 which was wrecked by UP in 1951 at Wyuta, Utah. UP then purchased it and sent it back to EMD for rebuilding. UP sold this engine to the Rock Island in 1969. Here it... (more)

Starting in the mid-1960s one might encounter power from almost any railroad on Union Pacific’s Wyoming mainline. Still it was a bit unusual to find a single Burlington leading on all-UP consist... (more)

What could be finer than lunch in a dome diner as Union Pacific’s “City of Los Angeles” Train 103 passed through Laramie, Wyo. and an 8500-hp gas turbine was idling in the yard. This was M... (more)

A Union Pacific double stack, lead by an SD70ACe, passes the Laramie depot and yard after battling Sherman Hill during a spring snowstorm that made the pass a mess with several inches of snow and ... (more)

An eastbound manifest freight train cruises through as morning light rakes across the rail yard in Laramie, WY on March 30, 2015.

The buildings of downtown Laramie, WY bask in the afternoon light as an eastbound manifest freight train rolls through on March 29, 2015.

An eastbound intermodal train blasts smoke into the air as it gets under way after waiting for a westbound train to pass in Laramie, WY on March 29, 2015.

Who else but Union Pacific could routinely muster 15,750-hp on the head end, and do it with only three units? On March 19, 1966, 8,500-hp turbine 19, a 2250-hp GP30, and a 5,000-hp DD35B are past... (more)

Union Pacific’s 10 SDP35s were originally ordered to replace aging E-units in passenger service, and they did, briefly. But by March 19, 1966, just six months after delivery, the 2500-hp units c... (more)

Wyoming’s ever-present wind drags Union Pacific 28’s exhaust across the prairie east of Laramie as the 8500-hp turbine single-handedly muscles a drag up the approach to Sherman Hill, March 19,... (more)