It’s a mostly cloudy early afternoon in the desert country of Utah on February 4, 2003, as a fortuitous sliver of sun illuminates a quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors on Union Pacific’s LJP45... (more)

GP15-1 UPY 575, and 637 ramp it up for a second, allowing me the opportunity to hear their 645 prim movers coming to life. A beautiful sound, stirs up good memories.

By February 2006, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 was the last Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the Union Pacific system in its original unpatched paint and road number. Slumbering next t... (more)

Utah Railway 2004 GP38-3 (SP GP35), and GP40-3 3002 (WP GP40-2). Make their way along Utah's majestic Wasatch Mountain Range.

With one of Utah Railway's three GP40-3's out front. The RUT312 heads north up Utah's Wasatch Front.

Grinding it out on the hill. UP 7519 and company work up hill in Erda, Utah.

I happened to be in Moab, UT when a friend reminded me that the once a week UP potash local runs on a Friday, wait thats today! All of my previous plans for the day were now pushed to the side as ... (more)

UP 7519 splits the sun flowers at Lakepoint, Utah. The sun flowers are really out these days.

Looking like it's been in a grade crossing incident or two. UP 6723 leads the Roper to Helper, Utah run up Spanish Fork Canyon.

UP 7519 rounds the curve at Smelter, Utah. Norfolk and Southern 7708 is in the consist.

Coal empties fly across the Utah desert having just highballed the east siding switch at Whitehouse on their way east to Grand Junction. Just 20 minutes after sunrise, the low sun is casting intri... (more)

Electro-Motive Division built a total of 2,222 GP38-2s for 59 railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, making the model a best seller. Several hundred of them were customized to railroad specific... (more)

UP 702 and UPY 637 have just finished at the Flying J refinery, and are making their way past the Chevron refinery. They will pass the switch and push back in.

I was able to stumble across Salt Lake Garfield DS-12, and DS-13, doing some early morning work.

UP 702 and UPY 637 have a good size train, for their trip back to Roper Yard.