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.

Express downgrade west of Cheyenne My 70's photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

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

UP 5830 (ES44AC) leads a freight past the windmills west of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 5830 (ES44AC) leads a freight under an overpass west of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 6078 (AC4400CW-CTE) runs into an orange sunrise as it heads east on the Transcon through Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 5830 (ES44AC) runs past a puddle as it heads into the Cheyenne Yard.

A work train rolls out of Cheyenne, passing under the C&S bridge, bound for work on the Denver line.

UP #844 and UP Challenger #3985 sit facing the setting sun in at the steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A golden sunset glints off the drivers of Union Pacific's famous pair of operating steam locomotives #844 and Big Boy #4014 as they sit at the steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

UP 3985 makes a run on Sherman Hill in the days before she became a show horse. Cold winter days really accentuate steam exhaust.

Union Pacific purchased the four ALCO RS27 demos. Here is the entire roster on a freight at Perkins. The RS27's were off the roster by 1970. A short life for impressive locomotives.

UP Big Boy 4019 leaves Cheyenne with a great plume of smoke. Steam leaks can be seen surrounding the boiler.

A high speed geared SD40-2H leads two lower geared SD40-2 up Sherman Hill with an auto parts train. Probably the Ford Fast.