A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends UP's Evanston Subdivision through Echo Canyon. On the point, the largest operating diesel locomotive in the world, an ... (more)

Captured just before a big thundershower turned this dry desert community into mud, a Salt Lake City to Denver passenger special arrives at Helper for a crew change. The UP 6936 certainly looks ou... (more)

A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends the original 1860's track alignment of the Overland Route through Castle Rock, Utah. On the point, the largest operati... (more)

Approaching the end of a long journey that began early in the morning at Cheyenne, UP 6936 curves through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.

A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends UP's Evanston Subdivision at Henefer, Utah. On the point, the largest operating diesel locomotive in the world, an EMD... (more)

A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends the original 1860's track alignment of the Overland Route through Castle Rock, Utah. On the point, the largest operati... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails in Spanish Fork Canyon. The 6936, an EMD DDA40X is iconic to the UP, and looks out of pla... (more)

Having topped 7440 ft. Soldier Summit, a Union Pacific engineering special heads east toward a crew change at Helper, Utah. With an unusually wet and cool spring season, the summer wildflowers are... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails at Gilluly. Maintenance of Way personnel are rebuilding main track 2 from Rio to Lynn and... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. This sharp curve at milepost 673.75 was a... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails at CP RG677, Rio. Passing 'monsoon' moisture from the southwest has left behind a few clo... (more)

A Union Pacific engineering special running from Salt Lake City to Denver heads east on former D&RGW rails near the ghost town of Thistle, Utah. The 6936, an EMD DDA40X is iconic to the UP, and lo... (more)

UP's DD40X and Rio Grande Heritage unit lead an engineering special northbound on the Omaha Sub past flooded farm fields from the over flowing Missouri River at Crescent Iowa.

A Union Pacific grain shuttle departs Salt Lake City for a trip west on former WP rails to Northern California. The UP 6937 was built the UP 7549 in January 1999 as a 6000 horsepower C60AC. It wou... (more)

In an odd assignment for a "fast forty" and a DD40X the 8053 and 6936 work a 75 car westbound grain job at North Platte at 3:55PM.