Coming down into the sunrise, one of UP's older engines (actually built in 1994 at C&NW 8695) still pilots hotshots such as this eastbound passing through Borie. The Borie Cutoff line is visible b... (more)
Built in 1968 as a Canadian National SD40, this locomotive is now 57 years old, with a life that saw it upgraded to an SD40-2 for BN/BNSF. Now it moves various traffic for WAMCO road Swan Ranch Ra... (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)
No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)
Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.