A Glorious Morning on Archer Hill
Ed Dickens means business up Archer Hill on 4014’s departure from Cheyenne August 5, 2021 for the Big Boy 2021 Tour.

UP 7952 (ES44AC) runs through thick fog at Archer Hill east of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Westbound from Dale
Heavy grain is nearing the cut and Hermosa Tunnels west of Dale Wyoming.

Cheyenne Wild Flowers
Pleasant Summer wishes with the Steam Program

Two stack trains meet east of Cheyenne, Wyoming, The single motor is leading a train into Cheyenne as the four engine train heads west towards the mountains.

UP 6544 (AC4400CW) leads a stack train out of the Cheyenne Yard at dawn.

70 years ago it would have been a common sight to see a Big Boy engine rounding the curve and the water tank at Speer, Wyoming.

Speer
Another study at the Speer tank. Flowering natural high plains botanicals add some color to the steel and iron beast

Thanks to lucky timing a BNSF freight heading south to Denver passes over a Union Pacific westbound train leaving the Cheyenne Yard at dawn.

Sherman Granite Alpen Glow
5-8 minutes after the sun popped over Sherman Summit an eastbound fast moving manifest made a timely appearance for the camera. The great Rock Peopl... (more)

View at Green River
After a quick crew change, a westbound Union Pacific stack train departs Green River, Wyoming, as it curves out of town crossing the its namesake river, and is begin... (more)

Sunset over Wendover Canyon
At day’s end on July 4, 1999, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train powered by three SD70MACs, leaving a thin veil of exhaust in its wake, n... (more)

UP 8877 (SD70AH) leads a stack train out of the tunnels at Hermosa, Wyoming.

Last Light at Tie

UP 3076 leads ZSCG2-27 (Priority Intermodal-Salt Lake City-Global 2, IL) under the signal bridge and past Hermosa Road at track speed in the very last... (more)

Union Pacific 4014 arrives in Granger Wy in the very early morning in May 2019 on its first trip west since being restored