Amtrak SDP40Fs 622 and 587 have just completed running around their train in Cheyenne and are preparing to tie back onto the headend of the train. This was how I spent my Thanksgiving Day in 1974... (more)
Facing west to head eastbound: Amtrak's eastbound San Francisco Zephyr is calling on Cheyenne, and is facing UP westbound. It will shortly leave town, heading south through Speer and onto... (more)
A pair of big haulers brace a Fast Forty, a common high speed high priority lashup in the 70s. They are preparing to continue east toward Council Bluffs.
UP 8444 stands at the Cheyenne passenger station coupled ahead of Amtrak E8 330 on the headend of #6. In the early days of Amtrak, UP would ferry the big locomotive to and from Denver on the head... (more)