In it's death throes, the 6910 exits the tunnel and gets ready to set dynamics for the drop off the edge down into Red Buttes and Laramie. The Big Jacks' 15 minutes of fame is about up by this tim... (more)

After a smokey exit from the tunnel, the engineer has 'em at idle and is about to set dynamics for the downhill run to Laramie and the daily dodge of eastbound shooters while looking back for the ... (more)

Long, heavy trains over Sherman Pass often require DPUs to relieve drawbar stress. And sometimes they have DPUs for other reasons ... Caboose 25872 can be seen Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD70M
Location: Hermosa, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: UP 4563
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 28, 2008

Smoke seen for miles as this guy left Laramie and was winding through Colores, so I thought "great; UBoats!" Not a GE to be found, though, as the culprit is an NW SD45. When he exited the east e... (more)

Boy, was I ever just enjoying the show during the last days of the Big Jacks. Every day was a good day whenever I was able to get any train with one in the consist. It really didn't matter what ... (more)

Filed my taxes before coming down from Casper to the UP for a weekend of chasing Centennials over Sherman and to NP. It was cold. Cold. But you could hear this guy roaring from Colores all the w... (more)

A C&NW C44-9W and four UP SD40-2's lead a stack track east over Sherman Hill. The train went through the Hermosa tunnels and it's all down hill to Cheyenne from here.

Oh the memories!! My car was stuck in the mud from a snowdrift runoff just to the left of where I'm standing, when I heard the 'spatcher talk to this guy. Last shooting light of the day. Note: ... (more)

Running right main, this fast train sports 3 new GEVOs, two of them yearlings and the third less than 2 years old. It has run around a slower soda train by taking the lower line from Laramie, and... (more)

A roaring pair of big UP powerhouses begins the downhill run to Laramie, exiting Hermosa Tunnel during a snowstorm. Leading is U50 #40, followed by a DD35B. UP 40 was built in 1964, using recond... (more)

The NorthWestern appeared to be an integral part of the UP long before the actual takeover, as seen here on UP's Sherman Hill.