Loading at Granite. If one imagines hard enough, the train in the foreground is the eastbound City of San Francisco with an 800 class FEF-3 ripping downslope toward Cheyenne, while a 9000 c... (more)
A pair of locos manages the reload of Herzog ballast hoppers at Granite, WY. The plant in Granite has been the primary source of ballast for the Union Pacific in Nebraska and Wyoming since 1944, a... (more)
An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The wind fence and open plains make for a classic Wyoming scene.
An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)
An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)
The second section of the Global II, IL to Brooklyn, OR Z-train waste no time climbing the 1.55% grade of Sherman Hill near Granite. This was location was the site of the 2018 runaway train where ... (more)
Everybody pull! Four units on the point and two mid-train DPUs, all on-line and all chuggin', work together to lift this doublestacker of mostly domestic containers west out of Cheyenne.
Deadman Creek and the Sherman Granite near Albany County County, WYO play host to a heavy manifest on the Harriman Cutoff on track 3. 3 Flags in EMD legacy march ... (more)
Nearly 4 months after the fatal derailment near Granite, crews are still working to clear up the remnants of 3 locomotives. 2 crew members lost their lives, a reminder of the dangers involved in r... (more)
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)