A sunny August 31, 2002 morning finds the famous Dirt Train local rolling east through Wellington Canyon with 33 loads for ECDC.

Reflecting golden rays of sun: Five Rio Grande Tunnel Motors traveled light engines to Wash, Utah, on the afternoon of April 3, 2000, to round up some empty coal hoppers stored there. After gather... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 heads east along the Price River through Wellington Canyon.

After making a pickup off the siding at Wash, Union Pacific's 'Dirt Train' local departs east for the ECDC landfill at Columbia Junction. The city of Wellington is visible at upper right with the ... (more)

A trio of Jenks Rebuilt SD40Ns lead Union Pacific's LUH45 'Dirt Train' local east along the Green River Sub approaching Wellington, Utah. I personally have always associated this train with Rio Gr... (more)

Captured soon after the passage of Amtrak's California Zephyr, Union Pacific's 'Dirt Train' local departs the siding at Wash for ECDC's landfill at Columbia Junction, Utah.

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 glides east over the Price River entering Wellington Canyon near Wash, Utah.

Utah Railway crews shuffle the deck on the south leg of the wye of the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah.

A Utah Railway swing helper meets a Savage coal load on the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah. The swing helper will cut into the train off the south leg of the wye, then the combined consi... (more)

A Rio Grande manifest heads east for Grand Junction on the approach to Wellington, Utah. If anyone can offer any insight regarding the six unusual loads at the head end of the train, I would appre... (more)

A Union Pacific coal empty, bound for Converse, CO on the North Fork Sub, glides east through the desolate environs of Utah's Green River Desert near Mounds. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia trans... (more)

Veteran D&RGW engineer Mel Baughman 'smokes it up' for the photographers as the Rio Grande 5390, 5349, and 5371 lead the LJP45 Dirt Train near Mounds.

Captured at sunrise, a trainload of Wildcat coal off the Utah Railway heads east toward Denver along UP's Green River Subdivision just east of Wash, Utah.

UP 1983, the Western Pacific Heritage Unit, brings this Engineering Special flying through the small Utah town of Wellington. The weather in eastern Utah was dark and stormy this day, but this "su... (more)

Labor Day weekend is over. The residents of northern Utah who opted to spend their time at fantastic locations such as Arches National Park, Moab, or Capitol Reef are headed home, facing just anot... (more)