Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and ‘35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)

DD35A 83 is still climbing March 19, 1966, at it leans to the curve at the east end of Hermosa and begins the approach to the twin bores at Hermosa Tunnel and the summit of Sherman Hill. Together ... (more)

You had to stand at trackside to get the full effect: Union Pacific’s final class of turbines, the 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 Big Blows, were BIG, almost 166 feet long overall, 16 feet tall. And lo... (more)

Laramie was once a busy terminal, where eastbounds picked up helpers for the climb over Sheman Hill and westbounds dropped them off. But four years after the last Union Pacific steam engine tied u... (more)

UP 3081 hanging out in the back of Laramie's yard. Once a busy division point and a junction for the line to Coalmont, CO, there is little action here other than through trains ... The town stil... (more)

Big Boy 4011 has cut off its train from Cheyenne and soon will head for the Laramie roundhouse, where workers will ready it for another trip over Sherman Hill. In 1957, UP steam has two more seaso... (more)

A westbound makes its way downgrade into Laramie.

UP rail detector car DC3 sits on a spur at Laramie, WY. No photographer name on slide.

A DD35 A and B combo run through Laramie, WY. Note the early PFE trailers directly behind the locomotives. No photographer name on slide.

At Dale Creek Junction, three locomotives pull a westbound manifest train over track 3 toward Sherman summit.

Sherman Hill is covered in a nice coat of white on this spring afternoon when a westbound grain train approaches Dale Creek Junction.

Eastbound Pioneer rolls though Laramie and its classic western style downtown.

Wyoming and Colorado FP-7 1510 (ex Alaska) switches in the yard as GP-7 1608, still in TP&W colors stands by.