UP's Potash Local heads for home at Grand Junction, CO as it traverses the former Rio Grande maineline across eastern Utah, dwarfed by the geography and emptiness of the surrounding area.

UP's westbound local to Wendover, NV climbs the grade at Marblehead as it traverses the former WP Shafter Sub.

UP's eastbound local from Wendover, NV makes a pick up of cars out on the salt flats west of Salt Lake City, UT on the former Western Pacific Shafter Sub behind a trio of rebuilt SD40Ns.

Hidden away in a business park in north Ogden, UT is this rare FM switcher, formerly a Defense Logistics Agency unit.

A great collection of western railroad motive power resides at the museum at the former Union Station in Ogden, UT.

A sole GE serves as DPU on a unit train of hoppers heading upgrade through Echo Canyon as viewed from the westbound I-80 rest stop.

Utah Railway power idles at their shops in Martin after switching cars at the Wildcat loadout.

A loaded UP coal train bound for the Intermountain Power Project at Lynndyl traverses the remote Sharp Sub.

A westbound UP freight climbs one of the final grades on the Shafter Sub before descending on to the salt flats and the fast run to Wendover on former Western Pacific tracks.

A variety of Wissor power idles at the roundhouse in Janesville, a fun place to observe a nice paint scheme while waiting for crews to come on duty.

A loaded UP coal train from Colorado heads west at remote Vista Siding on the former Rio Grande. A pair of 70ACes make for a nice DPU shot as they shove along the Books Cliffs under threatening s... (more)

BNSF's daily Stockton-Denver mixed freight holds in the siding at Desert awaiting a westbound empty oil train out here on a fairly remote stretch of the former Rio Grande.

A RRVW job to switch industries on the north side of Wahpeton, ND heads back to the yard in Breckenridge, MN.

DMVW's southbound Max Turn has stopped for the day and the crew departed back to Bismarck. They will return the next day to continue the journey back south with this former CN SD50F.

Northern Plains #2281 sits outside of the line's shops at Lansford awaiting a call to duty.