With code-line poles and searchlight signals framing the scene Union Pacific's eastbound 'salad shooter' works up Sherman Hill at the top end of Hermosa.

Eastbound rail train knocks down the search lights at CP W547 shortly before entering the Hermosa Tunnels on Sherman Hill.

Conforming to the reverse curves between Heard and Hermosa eastbound tonnage challenges gravity on the climb out of Laramie to the top of Sherman Hill. Nearly 10 miles remain for the eastbound man... (more)

Powered by four units, an eastbound Union Pacific grain train exits one of the bores of the Hermosa Tunnels on the climb up Sherman Hill just east of Hermosa, Wyoming, on the morning of September ... (more)

Heavy thunderstorms fill the sky across the Wyoming countryside as UP SD9043MAC #3663 and NS SD70ACu #7248 (an ex UP SD9043MAC) lead a westbound grain train down the grade and through the searchli... (more)

In the early evening hours, UP's MNPRO-18 (North Platte-Roper Manifest) heads west through the searchlight signals at the east end of Hermosa, Wyoming on June 18, 2018.

With a compliment of 87 soda-cans tied to the drawbar a heavy eastbound soda ash train meets a westbound manifest between Heard and Hermosa on the western slope of Sherman Hill.

On September 24, 2003, a westbound Union Pacific intermodal train curves out from one of the twin bores of Hermosa Tunnels crossing Sherman Hill at Hermosa, Wyoming. A pair of EMD SD70Ms, Nos. 503... (more)

A quartet of EMD SD40-2s power an eastbound Union Pacific freight at Hermosa on UP’s route over Sherman Hill in Wyoming in July 1984. The train is entering a cut that leads to the twin bores of ... (more)

At 9:26 a.m. on September 25, 2003, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train burst out of an eastern portal of one of the twin bores of Hermosa Tunnels east of Hermosa, Wyoming, on UP’s crossing o... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific grain train emerges from the twin bores of Hermosa Tunnels crossing desolate Sherman Hill at Hermosa, Wyoming, on September 24, 2003. General Electric 6,000 hp AC6000CW N... (more)

6000 HP MACs ! A pair of 6000 horsepower SD90MAC-H II units are on the head end of a heavy eastbound unit train as it climbs Sherman Hill. The train is about to enter Hermosa Tunnel

Winter on Sherman Hill. ON a clear, but frigid day, a solid APL stack train is climbing Sherman Hill eastbound behind C36-7 #9004. The train has just exited Hermosa Tunnel.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight approaches the Hermosa Tunnels leaving Hermosa, Wyoming, in July 1984. EMD’s SD40-2 ruled the UP main line back then, and the power on this train is no excepti... (more)