The engineer working Southern Pacific's Roper to Grand Junction manifest freight looks over his shoulder and inspects his train passing through Riverton with 70 cars on Aug. 26, 1994.

A Union Pacific work train blasts through Lake Point headed for a derailment on the Lynndyl Subdivision on Oct. 17, 1999.

A Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs passenger special rolls through Henefer along Interstate 84 on a stormy Sept. 14, 2016 afternoon.

The dirt train conductor and brakeman pause to observe the curious behavior of a railfan in his natural habitat. Columbia Junction • Dec. 27, 1999

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs passenger special crests 6824 ft. Wahsatch Summit near the Wyoming state line on a rainy Sept. 14, 2016 afternoon.

More than half a century ago, the Union Pacific Railroad posed passenger trains in Echo Canyon for publicity photos. On Sept. 14, 2016, a Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs passenger special looked ... (more)

One of the Rio Grande's hot piggyback trains kicks up a little snow passing the Provo passenger station on Jan. 24, 1976.

A pair of factory fresh GE ET44AH units lead an Ogden to Roper auto train through Salt Lake City on Sept. 13, 2016.

Southern Pacific SD40T-2s No. 8254 and 8330 pull an 89 car Grand Junction to Roper manifest freight through the Jordan Narrows on the morning of July 11, 1993.

Southern Pacific 100, the first of 279 new GE AC4400CWs leads a Trona, California to Skyline, Utah coal train over 7440 ft. Soldier Summit on July 15, 1995.

Freshly painted Union Pacific AC4400CW No. 6233 leads a rare Salt Lake City to Las Vegas Intermodal train west through Lake Point on the late afternoon of Sept. 10, 2016. On a clear day one can se... (more)

Pictured is a funeral train of sorts, taken in Salt Lake City on Nov. 6, 1999. Twelve locomotives, retired from Union Pacific's active roster are pictured on a light engine move to Boise, Idaho. W... (more)

All new GE locomotives and aluminum coal hoppers load at the new Willow Creek coal mine at Castle Gate in Price Canyon on Oct. 11, 1999.

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5400, 5347, and 5365 lead a 70 car 'Dirt Train' local at milepost 6 on the Sunnyside Sub on a warm Oct. 11, 1999 afternoon.

On a perfect October afternoon in Castle Valley, the MDVRO rolls east with 73 cars on Oct. 10, 1999. The power consist includes DRGW SD40T-2 No. 5397, SP SD40M-2 No. 8594, UP SD60 No. 6036, and DR... (more)