UP 8039 (C45ACCTCE) leans into a corner at Speer, Wyoming, passing the iconic old water tower as it leads the train west on track 3.

Horsepower meets wind power. Two modern day Don Quixote crew for the Union Pacific take on two windmills west of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)

BNSF 2712 leads the East Local into the Wind River Canyon.

BNSF 7981 (ES44C4) is surrounded by motors from the Swan Creek Ranch Railroad.

A pair of Executive MACs lead a BNSF freight through Cheyenne, Wyoming as it heads towards Fort Collins, Colorado.

BNSF 2712 leads a short train along the Bighorn River, just North of Thermopolis.

The Greybull based East Local makes a set out before continuing on towards the Wind River Canyon.

After making a set out in Worland, this engineer is wasting no time getting back up to track speed.

A golden hue at sunrise catches three trains on the east end of the massive Union Pacific Cheyenne Yard. An outbound hopper train meets a stack train, and both are passing an auto rack train that... (more)

The very first light at sunrise catches UP 8680 (SD70ACe) leaving the Cheyenne Yard with a cover hopper train.

UP Ace 8924 leads a mixed freight out of the east end of the Union Pacific's Cheyenne Yard in Wyoming.

BNSF’s Cowley turn trundles northbound through the stark landscape of Himes Canyon along the Bighorn River between Himes and Kane, Wyoming, on the morning of June 27, 2018.

The roundhouse at Cheyenne hosts coal train power of the day - C30-7s and a U30C on the side. Most coal traffic came out of the Hanna, WY basin at the time as there were several mines in the vicin... (more)

High Plains Drifter: The windswept plains of Wyoming can be a cold environment and the comparatively lonely rails of the Colorado & Southern Rwy., at this time still a separate entity of BN, hoste... (more)