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Chad, I covered Sherman Hill and the PRB for a week back in 2003, so my info may be a bit outdated, but I'll try to help here. I'm also out for business right now without my DeLorme map of Wyoming so that doesn't help either. I encourage you to get one of these. They are a wonderful help. First off, Dale is just east of the tunnels where track 3 comes back together with tracks 1 & 2. As for getting to the tunnels, after a couple hours of getting close but not right to them, we did get to them from the north side across ranch property. The ranchers in the area I talked to said they did not mind if you drove across there land as long as you CLOSED THE GATES BEHIND YOURSELF!! Leaving the area we found you could get to them from Highway 287, on the south side, by taking Hermosa Road and Dale Creek Road. Google maps shows these roads. <A href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=41.073787,-105.457764&spn=0.060175,0.1157&om=1">http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=41.073787,-105.457764&spn=0.060175,0.1157&om=1</A> . There is a road over the hill which the tunnel actually goes through and is on the south side of the tracks outside the tunnel but I am quite sure that it is railroad property. While we were up there, 5 hours or so, seen by many crews and several trackworkers, we were never bothered, but thats not saying they won't. As for the PRB, stopping by Bill is a must. There is a road on a bridge that goes over the line just below the summit of Logan Hill that google identifies as NF-942, but I don't think that is the actual name. Its a nice spot to stand for a little bit. You can see trains climbing the hill about 6-7 miles to the north and maybe 5 miles to the south and watch them coming up the whole time. <A href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=43.414525,-105.365067&spn=0.057983,0.1157">http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=43.414525,-105.365067&spn=0.057983,0.1157</A> . The next road north along Hwy 59 is Antelope Coalmine Rd. Get off of 59 and use this road to stay with the tracks (As long as it still goes all the way through and hasn't been severed by pit expansion). There are many locations along this road that there have been many now fairly famous pictures taken from. Some of them you may have to park along the road and climb over a small hill. The is a bridge over the lead to Antelope mine and you go right past the bridges over Antelope Creek. The road takes you up as far as the lead to North Rochelle. After getting up there find Hilight Rd. It will closely follow the track to a location halfway or so between Reno Jct and Coal Creek Mine. If you want to reliably see trains, stay mostly south of Reno Jct, espeacilly south of Antelope Creek. Pretty much find a spot you like and park yourself. The only problem with that is that the northern end of the line is the most scenic in my opinion. The end of the joint section near Belle Ayr and Caballo mines is very nice. To get there, follow Bishop Rd east from 59 to get there. If I wasn't so lazy and busy, I would have pictures to show you from the trip, but i still haven't got them ready to upload to the internet. If I think of anything else, I'll try to post it, or if you have any question, go ahead and ask and I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities.
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