A westbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train passes through Mormon Gap, Colorado, on the morning of October 20, 2015. These E60C-2 electric locomotives are energized by a 50,000-volt overhead wire on catenary supports on the 35-mile line from the Deserado Mine loadout in Colorado and the Bonanza Power Plant in Utah. The railroad was originally built in 1982-1983 and called the Deseret-Western. The first two locomotives on this train are the original E60C-2 locomotives used during startup, acquired from GE from part of a cancelled order of the 6,000-h.p. machines for Nationales de Mexico, intended for use on a newly-constructed line out of Mexico City. Electric operations on this line was never realized—much of the E60C-2 fleet was used only briefly—or never put in service. Of the 39 locomotives built in 1982-83 for NdeM, 28 were finally placed in service on a portion of the intended route in 1994, and six were soon wrecked. The third locomotive in the photo (DPR-3) is one of five former NdeM E60C-2s that DPR bought to supplement the fleet in the mid-2000s.
