To reach this spot in Nevada from Little Mountain, Utah, west of Ogden on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, UP 9522 has had to cross 30 miles of the Great Salt Lake, using the Bagley, Saline and R... (more)

Utah Ry. got into the business of hauling crude oil fairly early as seen in this shot of a UTAH train descending the 2% grade off of the west side of Soldier Summit. The oil in these tankers is ho... (more)

This Union Pacific empty coal train passing Grassy siding in Utah is on it’s way back east for a coal re-load at Bowie, Colorado. When loaded it will head back west to the large IPP power plant ... (more)

D&RGW #3077 is eastbound, in your face, at Utah Ry. Junction at the lower end of Price River Canyon. Helper Yard is about 3 miles or so ahead. Those tracks on the left are the yard leads to Utah R... (more)

This ex. Oregon Short Line 2-8-0 looks great as it approaches the end of the line at Heber City, Utah. This Heritage RR is part of the Heber Valley RR Museum and operates over 16 miles of an ex. R... (more)

D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

Time was fast running out for #5371. It was the very last un-renumbered, unpatched Rio Grande unit left on the Union Pacific RR. Fittingly it ran it’s last miles out of Helper, Utah on the “Di... (more)

The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus train has worked its way down the west side of the Soldier Summit grade and is now on the lower of the two big loops at Gilluly. Grade here is 2%. Th... (more)

In spite of the BNSF leader, this is a Union Pacific coal train just cresting Soldier Summit in a light snow storm. The train loaded at the Skyline Mine near Scofield, Utah and has a mix of UP and... (more)

What’s this? A Utah Railway train in Kansas? When the Utah Railway stopped operating its line from Provo, over Soldier Summit to the Helper, Utah area their MK5000 locomotives became surplus. S... (more)

This ex. Southern Pacific SD45T-2, rebuilt as an SD40T-3 and now running as DM&IR #405 is passing through Iron Jct., Minnesota with a train of raw taconite ore. They are headed to the Fairlane pe... (more)

The Northshore Mining Railroad runs 47 miles from the open pit mine at Babbitt, Minnesota to the huge mill and plant facility on the shore of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Raw ore is hauled down th... (more)

This Deseret Ry. empty coal train is about 1 ½ miles from the end of the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant. Ahead lies 32 miles of running across this stark, uninhabited and at this time ... (more)

These 2 grimy coal motors are leading a coal train eastbound past the 12 million year old volcanic neck called Finger Rock. Location is between Yampa and Toponas on the ex. D&RGW Craig Branch in C... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 electric #DPR-1 is eastbound about 1 mile out of the Bonanza Power Plant. I worked out here on these barren, but to me beautiful, uplands and saw this unique railroad every week... (more)