An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The wind fence and open plains make for a classic Wyoming scene.

An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)

An Eastbound manifest freight train is seen descending Sherman Hill at Granite on the Union Pacific Laramie Subdivision. The train is approaching Cheyenne, which is the crew change point. The quar... (more)

UP 1995, the Chicago & Northwestern heritage locomotive, is the DPU of the hot ZG2BRB as it charges hard up the grade of Main 2 at Granite.

The second section of the Global II, IL to Brooklyn, OR Z-train waste no time climbing the 1.55% grade of Sherman Hill near Granite. This was location was the site of the 2018 runaway train where ... (more)

Everybody pull! Four units on the point and two mid-train DPUs, all on-line and all chuggin', work together to lift this doublestacker of mostly domestic containers west out of Cheyenne.

Deadman Creek

Deadman Creek and the Sherman Granite near Albany County County, WYO play host to a heavy manifest on the Harriman Cutoff on track 3. 3 Flags in EMD legacy march ... (more)

UP 4014 & 844 head east at Granite along the I80 service road on their way back home to Cheyenne.

UP DDA40X 6913 with SD40-2 3485 heading west near Granite, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

Nearly 4 months after the fatal derailment near Granite, crews are still working to clear up the remnants of 3 locomotives. 2 crew members lost their lives, a reminder of the dangers involved in r... (more)

With the morning sun having just begun to climb above the horizon an eastbound double stack train drops down Sherman Hill at Granite, WY. The headend, led by EMD SD70AH-T4 3047, is passing one of ... (more)

Eastbound tonnage descends the 'gangplank' on Sherman Hill, passing the searchlight installation at West Granite.

GRANITE WY Oct 19 1977 -- What I suspect is a ballast train makes it way under Wyoming skies. Utahrails.net records that SD40-2 3392 was delivered in April 1977.

The Wyoming prairie can be seen off in the distance as a westbound stack train led by a "Notch Nose" SD70M No. 5195 climbs up the grade on Track 1 along Frontage Road and I-80 near Grani... (more)

The sun hides behind clouds as a fast moving eastbound Z-Train led by Union Pacific ES44AH No. 8155 races down Sherman Hill on Track 2 along Frontage Road and I-80 east of Granite, Wyoming on Dece... (more)