Having just joined the 'Overland Main' at Speer Junction the annual CFD special drops down grade into Cheyenne with a trainload of passengers eager to attend Frontier Day's opening ceremony. For t... (more)

Situated between Fort Steele and Walcott Union Pacific's busy Laramie Subdivision cuts through a remote canyon, affectionately known by locals as Rattlesnake Canyon. Beneath the sandstone rocks at... (more)

A brief break in the afternoon's thunderstorm finds westbound grain loads struggling up 3-track at the west end of Harriman. Power on this day includes a current (UP 3663) and a former (NS SD70ACu... (more)

'Main line through.....Wyoming?' As a weather front begins to push in over Wyoming Union Pacific 1989, D&RGW heritage unit, has a hold of westbound tonnage dropping down grade from Pine Ridge into... (more)

Completed by 1953 Union Pacific's third main track over Sherman Hill, also known as the 'Harriman Line', traded 10 extra miles for an easier gradient for heavy westbounds on the busy Overland Rout... (more)

With a compliment of 87 soda-cans tied to the drawbar a heavy eastbound soda ash train meets a westbound manifest between Heard and Hermosa on the western slope of Sherman Hill.

As afternoon thunderheads move over the plains westbound tonnage heads west up 3 track, also known as the 'Harriman Line', at the east end of Speer. Here a hold out from the steam era still watche... (more)

As afternoon thunderheads kick up over head a westbound 'special' sails across the North Platte River at Fort Steele, WY on Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision.

Looking sharp following display at North Platte, Nebraska's rail fest event UP 1983, Western Pacific heritage, leads westbound tonnage out of Rawlins, WY and towards the continental divide.

With the morning sun having just begun to climb above the horizon an eastbound double stack train drops down Sherman Hill at Granite, WY. The headend, led by EMD SD70AH-T4 3047, is passing one of ... (more)

Climbing the grade east out of Rock River, WY an eastbound hotshot, behind a solid set of EMD power, hustles around the big curve at Pine Ridge.

Leaving the open spaces of the Tehachapi Valley a eastbound BNSF double stack train enters Cache Creek Canyon at Cameron.

As the sun peeks above the horizon the mountains and desert above Mojave are a glow in the dawn of a new day. All the while the all to familiar sound of heavy dynamics simultaneously greets the da... (more)

Eastbound double stacks follow the charge of a new Union Pacific tier-IV compliant SD70AH through Thayer, WY on UP's Rawlins Subdivision. Of interest are the brand new 'One' (Ocean Network Express... (more)

Having topped the summit of Peru Hill an eastbound unit soda ash train carefully creeps down grade towards Green River with a compliment of over 100 'soda cans' tied to the drawbar. Trailing the h... (more)