Western Railroad Discussion > SP 1996-UP 7683-MP 1982 over Sherman Hill

With the generous help of High Green Graphics and Ryan
of heritagelocomotives group, I was finally able to
double the number of UP Heritage engines I've seen in
person (to 4, sadly enough) but we got them in
exquisite light over Sherman Hill after a trace of
snow fell the night before.

Climbing Sherman Hill
http://members.trainorders.com/nh2006/DSCF7585.jpg

Granite, WY
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Borie, WY (met TO member Rathole here!)
http://members.trainorders.com/nh2006/DSCF7603.jpg

Old UP Geeps in the yard at Cheyenne
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C&S bridge, Cheyenne
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Archer, WY
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Was this the train out of Lathrop ? the LTCS I think ? Is the normal routing through this part of wyoming ?

Great shots BTW

Yep the ZLTCS! I shoulda mentioned that....

Man, that fence at Grainte looks scary! UP's new railfan deterent tactics??

KK

great stuff!!! What is the mainline speed for this Z train out there in the plains? I take it the trackspeed does slow down for those rare curves right?

KoloradoKid Wrote:
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> Man, that fence at Grainte looks scary! UP's new
> railfan deterent tactics??

I think what you see is a power line to the firestation, the road at Granite is much lower that the rails...

espeeboy Wrote:
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> great stuff!!! What is the mainline speed for this
> Z train out there in the plains? I take it the
> trackspeed does slow down for those rare curves
> right?

Well even with the curves and grades over Sherman, these trains FLY over it....I was doing 75mph+ on I80 and had a hard time getting ahead of it....

Great shots! Glad you caught it, and you can keep that 1996!

NH2006 Wrote:
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> Well even with the curves and grades over Sherman,
> these trains FLY over it....I was doing 75mph+ on
> I80 and had a hard time getting ahead of it....


Thaz what I thought - so CONGRATS on being able to get ahead and shoot this bad boy a few times. It ain't easy and is pretty much impossible to do legally...

espeeboy Wrote:
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> It ain't easy and is pretty much impossible to do
> legally...

I take it you have life experience? :-)

espeeboy Wrote:
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> Thaz what I thought - so CONGRATS on being able to
> get ahead and shoot this bad boy a few times. It
> ain't easy and is pretty much impossible to do
> legally...

It's not impossible as the speed limit on I80 is 75mph and the WY State Troopers will (generally-cross your fingers) ignore you if are only 3mph over...but I missed the shot at Buford because he was flying ahead of me by the time I got up from Tie Siding....

Nice set of shots there! If it makes you feel any better, the only Heritage unit I have "action" shots of is 1989. Sure, I got all six in Salt Lake, but they were sittin' still! One of these days I'll get up to Cheyenne when a few are making a run across the Overland.

Thanks for posting.

Kevin Morgan
Arvada, CO
ColoradoRailfan.com

Very nice stuff! Even though we missed it, I'm glad we did what we did the night before...!
~wko ;-)
I seriously crawled into bed after 1:05am, exhausted.

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