Big Boys 4003 and 4012 double head over the new Harriman Line.
A Big Boy hauls a string of reefers over Sherman Hill.
A BRC RS2 basks in the winter sun of the locomotive facilities at Clearing yard.
Looks like a New York Central inspired paint scheme. The IHB was the connection between all the railroads that came into Chicago.
There's plenty of smoke coming from this Big Boy as he leaves Cheyenne and makes a run for the hill.
UP had some fine looking consolidations, and here's one doing some local duties in Oconee, NE.
Here a Big Boy hauls a freight on the new, longer but less steep grade known as the Harriman Cutoff. This new line allows some trains to run without helpers.
Here a Big Blow runs up the steeper grade of Sherman Hill.
There are six GP9's behind this Turbine. No power shortage here.
UP 430 is one mile east of Spaulding, with a mixed local in tow.
The big hooks were called out once the Alco and the GE's left the rails. RS27 677 was retired and scrapped on August of 1970.
A Big Boy heads east past Dale Junction over Sherman Hill. It's about this point the climb starts downhill.
An A-B-B-A set of GP9's pulls a train over Sherman Hill. Photo by Jack A Pfeifer.
An A-B-B set of F units climb the new line over Sherman Hill. Photo by Jack A Pfeifer.
Turbine 30 struts its stuff hauling stock cars on the front end.