Union Pacific 817 leads a trio of GP30s, including a rare GP30B, eastbound up the .82 percent approach to Hermosa Tunnel, apex of Sherman Hill and highest point on the railroad’s transcontinenta... (more)
This is why, six years after the end of steam, fans still head for Union Pacific’s Sherman Hill. On September 25, 1965, GTEL 11 leads a GP30-DD35-DD35B-DD35B combination – some 25,750 hp. in a... (more)
Grinding up the .82 percent to Hermosa Tunnel and the 8014-foot summit of Sherman Hill in late September, 1965, Union Pacific 418 leads a motive power consist that could be assembled on no other ... (more)
Just days before Amtrak Trains 5 and 6 “San Francisco Zephyr” would discontinue running through Wyoming over the U.P. and take the place of Rio Grande’s “Rio Grande Zephyr” through the R... (more)