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The train continued to take the curves on this line.
The hills sure drew my interest.
Curves to the right and left.
Another view of the hills.
Scenes along the way.
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More curves.
Bluff off to the west.
Curves to the left.
LaGrange, Wyoming.
Bluff to the west.
Train curving to the right.
More views of the bluff.
New siding being put in at Meier for Powder River coal traffic.
More of the bluff.
Construction at Meier.
Another bluff.
Our train takes more curves.
Still more curves.
Hay in the fields.
This curve took our train into Hawk Springs.
Heading the final miles into Yoder.
This track used to go all the way to Torrington, Wyoming.
I finally have made it to Yoder, Wyoming! The train paused for a few minutes. The Union Pacific didn't want the E-units to use this siding so our trip will head east into Nebraska to a siding that they can use. Now the tracks will head almost straight east.
Leaving Yoder.
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Scenes along the way to Kiowa, Nebraska.
Lyman, Nebraska with the House of Hose.
Our train arrived at Kiowa MP 166.75 at12:46 PM. The E units cut off and ran to South Morrill and turned on the wye there before returning to the train. We departed Kiowa at 2:23 PM and started back for Cheyenne with me just relaxing most of the way back.
At Yoder we did another Photo Runby. This is the back up move.
Photo Runby #2 at Yoder, Wyoming.
A butte to the east of the train.
Water tower at LaGrange.
Nice view. The train stopped again at MP 215 for the last Photo Runby of the day.
The back up move.
Photo Runby #3 at Milepost 215. Back on the train I relaxed as we headed back to the UP mainline at Egbert.
The UP mainline at Egbert where we rejoined it and got a high speed trip back to Cheyenne. But there we got stopped by the UP 5494 East before we could cross over to Mainline 4. We went by the switch we came out on and then went by the Cheyenne Station and pulled west far enough to clear the switch to the track back to the boarding area. We arrived back into Cheyenne at 6:35 PM. Thanks to the Union Pacific Railroad for allowing this trip to take place and to the Union Pacific Historical Society for planning and making it happen. I drove south to Fort Collins for the night at the Motel 6 there.
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