ipernity: Wyoming by Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

Cheyenne, WY steam locomotive (0636)

27 Sep 2013

262

Close up of the shafts and drive wheels of the Big Boy 4004, one of the remaining versions of the worlds largest steam locomotive. To get a sense of the size here, note that the photo was taken by holding the camera at arms length over my head, which is about 6 feet.

Cheyenne, WY steam locomotive (0630)

27 Sep 2013

1

214

Big Boy 4004, one of the remaining versions of the worlds largest steam, locomotives. The photo was taken through a chain link fence, thus the chain link in the upper right corner.

Cheyenne, WY steam locomotive (0633)

27 Sep 2013

184

Big Boy 4004, one of the remaining versions of the worlds largest steam locomotives.

Cheyenne, WY steam locomotive (0632)

27 Sep 2013

1

175

Big Boy 4004, one of the remaining versions of the worlds largest steam locomotives, in Holliday Park, Cheyenne, WY. See detail with nearby picture.

Beartooth Scenic Byway WY (#0527)

05 Aug 2015

1

112

Somewhere hiding in this valley is WY-296, my route down from the mountains towards Cody.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0530)

05 Aug 2015

1

187

The daily delay for highway construction/maintenance -- following the paint truck involved traveling at around 10 mph for 20 minutes.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0532)

05 Aug 2015

1

115

Near Sunlight Bridge on WY-296, Chief Joseph Highway. The mountain in the distance may be Heart Mountain (see later pictures).

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0534)

05 Aug 2015

2

172

Near Sunlight Bridge on WY-296, Chief Joseph Highway. I believe this is called Sunlight Basin. Again, I wasn't able to capture the vastness of the distance here -- in the largest of pictures you can see that there is actually a set of buildings in this picture, down and to the left from the center.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0537)

05 Aug 2015

5

1

142

Sunlight Creek Bridge, on WY-296 -- this is the highest highway bridge in Wyoming.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0535)

05 Aug 2015

2

116

Sunlight Creek from the Sunlight Creek Bridge.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0545)

05 Aug 2015

1

128

Running from the center down to the right side of the picture, the canyon of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River. The canyon is quite deep with very steep sides, but I couldn't find anything about its dimensions. Apologies for the color, it was getting late in the day and light was poor.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0546)

05 Aug 2015

1

131

From Dead Indian Hill summit. The distance covered here is vast. In a large size of the picture you can see the road by the plateau on the right side of the picture, which is five miles straight line or 13 miles by road.

Chief Joseph Highway WY (#0547)

05 Aug 2015

1

133

Plaque (and bullet holes) describing Dead Indian Hill Summit (8,000 feet). It was through here that Chief Joseph led the Nez Perce Indians in retreat in 1877 from the U.S. Army. (see adjacent)