Length 93 kilometers 58 miles. Double track. UP drive here Between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming Crossing the Continental Divide at an elevation of 2 442 meters 8,015 feet. Cheyenne. Sea level 1856 meter 6090 feet. Very high up. Therefore very few trees. Windy place Top Continental Divide 2442 meter 8015 feet. So train must go up 584 meters 1916 feet from Cheyenne. We have no route in Sweden with this altitude climb continuously. Norway has. (the Iron ore line between Narvik and the Riksgränsen against Sweden) Top Continental Divide the same height as Norway highest mountain Laramie Sea level 2180 meter 7152 feet. So train must go down 260 meters 853 feet from Top Continental Divide. Laramie the same height as our highest mountain Sweden. So it's a pretty challenging route. High elevation long slopes, Cold winters, Snow. Heavy and long trains and many of them. Big Boy steam engine have run here. Even gas turbine-electric locomotives (GTELs) It can takes 3 hours to run the whole length in TSW2. Train from 4000 ton to 14000 ton. Up to 130 wagons Height Profile Cheyenne to Laramie
Omaha to Cheyenne From Omaha (700 km 434 miles from Chicago) 300 meters sea level (980 feet) to Cheyenne 820 kilometers or 507 miles away. Steadily climb 1547 meters (5000 feet) uphill all the time Lol it looks like you can roll from Cheyenne to Omaha
Cheyenne to Ogden (Salt lake city) 766 kilometers (476 miles) Ogden 1315 meters (4314 feet) info some peak are in reality tunnels So after Laramie "flat high land" then up to Evanston and long down slope to Ogden
