Coming down into the sunrise, one of UP's older engines (actually built in 1994 at C&NW 8695) still pilots hotshots such as this eastbound passing through Borie. The Borie Cutoff line is visible b... (more)

Built in 1968 as a Canadian National SD40, this locomotive is now 57 years old, with a life that saw it upgraded to an SD40-2 for BN/BNSF. Now it moves various traffic for WAMCO road Swan Ranch Ra... (more)

A pair of locos manages the reload of Herzog ballast hoppers at Granite, WY. The plant in Granite has been the primary source of ballast for the Union Pacific in Nebraska and Wyoming since 1944, a... (more)

No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)

Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.

BNSF 743 is only about 2 months old, with two more apparently from the same vintage. They sit over Cicero Ave awaiting their entrance into Corwith Yard.

Rolling down the east side of Sherman Hill, on approach to the tiny(est) town of Buford. After, I'll drop into the Buford store for coffee and (packaged) donuts. It's a good morning.

A well-powered train launches from Cheyenne at sunrise to tackle Sherman Hill on its route westbound.

Coming out of the yard lead, BNSF 9040 heads up a coal train. This train is crewed, but is pocketed awaiting a couple higher priority (container) trains that are running the through tracks.

UP 1507 took an interesting route to its "North Yard Switcher" status. It was apparently built in April 1969 (so 55 years old in this picture) at Baltimore & Ohio GP40 #3738, then made i... (more)

Emerging from the cut after exiting the Hermosa Tunnels, UP 7915 will lead this train on to the old main on the approach to Laramie.

Colorado & Southern (narrow gauge) #9 rests under its own canopy in a park at the southern end of Breckenridge, at the base of Boreas Pass, where it certainly spent time working, possibly with nea... (more)

DL&G Rotary 01 was built in 1889, and was DL&G's only rotary snowplow. It was used to clear heavily snowy lines that could not be cleared by a spreader (Boreas Pass, Alpine). In 1899, it became Co... (more)

UP Power in northern Indiana ... this power runs NORX coal cars straight through, taking the CSS&SB for the final miles into Michigan City. This generating station uses both coal and nat gas, and ... (more)

Just before the sun dips behind the mountains to the west, an empty BNSF grain (or potash?) train picks up speed on the downhill run to Denver.