UP's Wendover Local glides west along former WP rails at Delle, Utah. The 51 car train is ascending a mild 0.4% grade at the junction point of the 10.6 mile Rowley Industrial Lead. On this clear w... (more)

It's detour time! Due to four consecutive wet winters, Utah's Great Salt Lake rose to a record height of 4211.6 feet above sea level by 1986-87. This gave the Southern Pacific operational headache... (more)

Its detour time! Due to four consecutive wet winters, Utah's Great Salt Lake rose to a record height of 4211.6 feet above sea level by 1986-87. This gave the Southern Pacific operational headaches... (more)

From this distance from the tracks--over a mile--it's silly to really care which locomotives--for the record, UP9210/9331--are on the head-end of a 50 car Council Bluffs-Stockton grain train clawi... (more)

UP 5646 leads an EB mixed freight across barren western Utah on the former WP main at the small "town" of Delle.

UP 8007 leads a short WB freight across the former Western Pacific main in western Utah. In just a few short moments, the train will pass by on the tracks in the foreground.

A WB autorack train crosses western Utah on the former Western Pacific main.

Temporarily surrounded by the briny waters of the Great Salt Lake, a Union Pacific grain train rambles west approaching the CP signals at East Timpie, Utah. This location, sandwiched between the w... (more)

A 96 car Union Pacific grain train rambles west along the Cricket Mountains at Marblehead, Utah. In the distance along the foothills is a long train of stored covered hoppers, tied down to the for... (more)

A 96 car Union Pacific grain train rambles west along the Cricket Mountains at Marblehead, Utah.

The "Marblehead Local" based out of Burmester, UT has arrived at Delle on the former WP mainline. After pulling west the conductor alighted and lined the west switch of the wye. Here the local c... (more)

This Oakland to SLC hot shot is curling around the curve at the east end of Delle siding on the former Western Pacific mainline. The snow covered and forested Cedar Mountains rise in the distance... (more)