The NorthWestern appeared to be an integral part of the UP long before the actual takeover, as seen here on UP's Sherman Hill.

Westbound grain shuttle with CMO grain cars was headed to Delhi, CA. Violent thunderstorms with strong winds can do form over Sherman Hill during the afternoons of spring and summer months.

Energy For Use - But Not Abuse. In the days when UP carried slogan boards on many of their SD40-2s, a 12,000 horsepower coal drag crosses off the high line from Laramie onto the right main... (more)

Blasting out of the western portal of Hermosa Tunnel, a brace of 3000 horsepower locomotives, just having cleared their summit off the Harriman Line at Dale Junction, build speed for the race down... (more)

Five GP30s work their way west, out of Hermosa Tunnel, picking up speed as they move downhill toward Laramie.

In the summer haze, UP 3453 and two Conrail SD's pull a military convoy westbound, leaving an exhaust plume on the tunnel behind.

A mixed freight approaches Tie Siding, WY, from the high line.

An eastbound rumbles uphill on the left, while UP 4132 leads westbound auto racks out of Hermosa Tunnel

Coal loads lean into the curve, heading into the Hermosa Tunnel cut.

The eastbound City of Everywhere, heading toward Cheyenne. For a few years they combined the "City" trains between Green River and Cheyenne.

UP SDP35 1406 rattles into the Hermosa Tunnel cut.

UP 3329 rumbles off the center track of Tie Siding and into the cut for Hermosa Tunnel. The blonde kid in the picture is Joel Hinkhouse, whose pictures can be seen Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Hermosa, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: UP 3329
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July, 1984

A hot eastbound stacker nears the summit of Sherman Hill as he enters the Hermosa Tunnel. See EXIF data for shot details.