Nevada Northern #40 steams across Steptoe Creek as the rising sun peeks through her drivers. This was the last day of the annual winter photo charter put on by the railroad.
Leaving the Great Plains behind and climbing the foothills just west of Clay, Colorado, is a westbound Union Pacific coal empty as the sun rises high into a morning sky on January 25, 2007.
The first of three eastbound manifests that are tied down on Main 1 from Cheyenne to Borie, Wyoming can be seen patiently waiting for a new crew to take the train east to North Platte, Nebraska on... (more)