Crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin on Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific main line, an eastbound UP freight approaches Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012.

A westbound UP autorack train completes it's crossing of the Great Salt Lake on a beautiful Spring evening at Lakeside.

UP 8961 has finally got its feet dry on solid land at Lakeside, Utah. The past 32 miles from Little Mountain have been “at sea” crossing the Great Salt Lake. Except for 3 miles of dry land at ... (more)

Nearing sunset on March 5, 2012, sees an eastbound Union Pacific freight crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin, approaching Lakeside, Utah. The train is is dwarfed by the vast size of the b... (more)

A day spent at Lakeside is often a day of lengthy pauses briefly punctuated by a passing train or maybe an off-roader. Only 4 trains had passed this day as the sun sank below the horizon, but a di... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight is on the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012. A 12-mile wood trestle used to carry the railroad straight across the lake, but d... (more)

An eastbound heads across the Great Salt Lake as a westbound lead by 5271 and a DPU pushing on the rear comes off the lake. On the former Southern Pacific causeway.

A 112 car manifest cruises along the Great Salt Lake Causeway. From my mountain top perch the smell of this great salty inland sea smells almost the same as being ocean side in California. The v... (more)

UP7408 pulls a westbound Reefer train across the Great Salt Lake. The original causeway was actually a wood trestle constructed in 1903. The timber was salvaged starting in 1993. The railroad mu... (more)

Sailing across the causeway with a westbound salad shooter. The modern causeway was completed in 1959 by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The route now carries Union Pacific trains across the Great ... (more)

Lit up by the sinking afternoon sun, an eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight is at Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012. Surely an optical illusion, but it almost feels like you can see the curve ... (more)

A UP mixed freight crosses the vast Great Salt Lake at dusk.

The Great Salt Lake... one of the most beautiful photo places I have visited in my life. At dusk, you can sometimes see two trains following one that's already on the dam. When I first saw the lig... (more)

Going to sea by rail
An eastbound Union Pacific freight begins the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah, as the end of the train in the foreground is about to leave terra ... (more)

Crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin with late afternoon sun glinting off the train, an eastbound Union Pacific freight approaches Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012. To the left are the eva... (more)