UP 2001, one of two specially painted SD70M's used on the torch train in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, leads the IOADVX-04 south on the Greeley Sub, about to pass under Terry Ranch Road.
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At the BNSF yard in Cheyenne, the yard switcher (a GP35u) was idling away, snow occasionally dropping off the cab. In the background, the Rawhide Power Plant coal empty is proceeding north to the mines in the Powder River Basin.
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Two unit grain trains, both headed east toward Cheyenne, take very different routes on the way. The train on the right will run directly into Cheyenne on main one. The train on the left is taking the Borie Cutoff up to Speer Junction, and will then enter on main three or main four.
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There are only 17 SD50's (now shown as SD50M's) on Union Pacific's roster. All 17 are former Rio Grande units. Here is one fo the 17, UP 9847 (ex-UP 5098, ex-SP 5504, nee-DRGW 5504). Note the plate on the nose where the MARS lights were once located.
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A unit box train was holding on main one just west of Cheyenne, waiting for a track to open so the train could continue east. The train had a new ES44AC, an ex-DRGW SD50, and two SD70ACe's for power.
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A derailment in Tunnel 10 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub caused Amtrak 5 to be re-routed through Wyoming on a very cold Saturday morning. Here, Amtrak 5 is on rails seldom seen by Amtrak since the end of the San Francisco Zephyr, approaching Speer Junction (about to pass under Terry Ranch Road), just a few miles in Wyoming north of Colorado.
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An eastbound doublestack train makes heads toward Cheyenne with a perfectly exposed sky as a backdrop.
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UP 844 looks very good on the point of the Frontier Days passenger train as the train crosses from Main 2 to Main 1 just west of the depot in Cheyenne.
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A westbound intermodal (doublestack) train gets a green signal on main one to head west.
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A westbound manifest led by a C44-9CW and an Canadian National SD40-2 (without dynamic breaks) sits on main two, waiting for a signal to head west.
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To avoid having BNSF's Front Range Sub from crossing UP's four main tracks using diamonds, a grade separation exists in Cheyenne. Here, a UP intermodal train crosses underneath a BNSF MDENLAU train!
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When EMD first released the SD60, they were given numbers with an "EMD" prefix. EMD 3 is one of the original SD60s that was first introduced in 1985. It was running as the last unit on the MDENLAU (Denver, CO to Laurel, MT) on BNSF's Front Range Subdivision.
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This patched Southern Pacific SD40T-2 was in the middle of a lashup of various power on a manifest in Cheyenne.
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Not far west of Cheyenne, two of the four main tracks diverge and go toward Speer. The remaining two continue west toward Sherman Hill. This eastbound is on main one approaching Cheyenne.
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Through Cheyenne, there are actually four main tracks on UP's Overland Route. Just east of Cheyenne, all four main tracks have an intermediate signals right next to one another.
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