Wyoming’s ever-present wind drags Union Pacific 28’s exhaust across the prairie east of Laramie as the 8500-hp turbine single-handedly muscles a drag up the approach to Sherman Hill, March 19,... (more)
On the cusp of a beautiful Nevada sunset, Union Pacific rolls manifest freight southwest through the Moapa Valley over the Los Angeles and Salt Lake route.
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)
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)