The blue-winged Union Pacific logo wraps around the glossy nose of E9A No. 949 inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013. In the background is sister locomotive No. 951. Out of th... (more)

Inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013, Union Pacific’s two E9As wait for another season of pulling passenger trains. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sen... (more)

Inside the heart of a steam locomotive
Well, maybe the boiler is the heart, but perhaps we can think of the firebox as where a locomotive gets her “life.” The famous Union Pacific N... (more)

Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Work is being done on the superheaters and firebox, among other things. Steam locomo... (more)

Always a favorite, Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Note the easily-seen twin stacks with the smokebox door removed a... (more)

An SD60M and an SD60 shortly after exiting the Hermosa tunnels are heading towards Laramie.

A CNW C40-8 and SD60 along with a UP SD40-2 pull a train of gondolas through Dale Junction on Sherman Hill. Snow fences are common on Sherman Hill, placed to control snow drifts.

A coal train crests the hill on Sherman Hill. A trio of GE's handles this train with ease.

Union Pacific 3985 is spending the early morning hours resting in the Cheyenne Roundhouse. Photograph taken with permission.

UP 6880 brings up the rear on an eastbound manifest rolling into Cheyenne for a crew change.

UP 3201 has turbo charger issues as itself and another SD40-2 lead the west job (Wycon Switch) out west to switch Wycon/DynoNobel west of Cheyenne.

Challenger with elephant ears
Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger No. 3985 loads returning passengers on the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days train at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the afternoon of J... (more)

In honor of General Norman Schwarzkopf who passed away today (December 27, 2012), this shot shows top brass from nearby F. E. Warren airbase and the governor of Wyoming (Mike Sullivan, cowboy hat ... (more)

While changing crews on a cold, rainy April 1984 night, an eastbound Union Pacific freight pauses in front of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, depot. The new crew is on, and very soon, the train will depart... (more)

UP Turbine #21 at Cheyenne, WY in May 1968.