The clouds on Sherman Hill finally opened up enough to allow a fully lit view of a 54=car eastbound TOFC train at Dale Junction, Wyoming.

While the scattered clouds provided an interesting sky, they also made the passing of every train a nail biter during our visit to Dale Junction, Wyoming. Here a 78 car eastbound grain train skirt... (more)

A seventy-five-car westbound Union Pacific train approaches Dale Junction, Wyoming on a spring day with a schizophrenic sky.

With Colorado snowcaps in the distance, three Union Pacific SD40-2’s lead a westbound train at Dale Junction, Wyoming. The first 26 of the train’s 52 cars are auto racks.

101 empty hoppers roll west on the Union Pacific at Dale Junction, Wyoming. Three UP GE’s and a Chicago & North Western SD40-2 are pulling them over Sherman Hill.

Dale Creek Junction
Autos through Dale.

The Clouds Giveth, and the Clouds Taketh Away

A morning spent on Union Pacific’s line over Sherman Hill at Dale Junction, Wyoming included a blue sky full of puffy white clouds. ... (more)

Eastbound Union Pacific tonnage rolls through Dale Junction, Wyoming. Run-through Norfolk & Western power includes a breed seldom seen in these parts – a high hood SD45.

Red Caboose on Sherman Hill

In 1947, the Union Pacific started a program of repainting its cabooses into an Armour yellow scheme, and the red caboose was soon eradicated from the s... (more)

Across the Great Fill at Dale Junction

From deep in the valley of Dale Creek westbound hotshot Z charges across the man made fill that towers over the original geology we... (more)

Ancient Snow Fences

Ancient snow/wind fences decay beneath the Sherman Granite in the early Winter‘s light. An eastbound Z train shares a profile with “Great Pink Panther�... (more)

Wings on the Overland Route

Westbound at track speed a matched set of clean near new EMD’s charge my vantage point at the base of the “Great Pink Panther” just east of Da... (more)

Sunset at Dale

The sun is moments from setting below the horizon at Dale Junction. A heavy westbound is dodging the shadows of the Rock People and making its way up the Harrima... (more)

Led by Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3391, an eastbound UP double stack train notches it up as it curves out of Dale Junction and heads for Dale on Sherman Hill’s Track 1 in July 1984.

An eastbound Union Pacific unit potash train cruises by Dale Junction over Track 1 on September 17, 2008. The rear of the train is at actual junction with Track 3, seen curving off to the left, bu... (more)