Deseret Power Railway begins the climb out of the Martian like landscape of Utah's Coyote Basin with 44 loads & 7200 tons of coal for the Bonanza Power Plant.

Deseret Power Railway coal loads are westbound at Mormon Gap near milepost 21 on their way to the power plant at Bonanza,UT.

On the morning of October 20, 2015, a westbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train thrums past milepost 20 at Mormon Gap, Colorado.

Its around 3am in the middle of know along one of the coolest land locked railroads there is without a sound to be heard besides the wind blowing across the vast openness and the occasional passin... (more)

The sun has long since set on the days of the BMLP but 12 days before the railroad would run their last train, it was business as normal with 3 trains running a day to and from the mine. Here near... (more)

An afternoon run of the Deseret Power Railway unit coal train is westbound as it approaches the Highway 64 overpass west of Midway, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.

In a panned photograph, Deseret Power Railway E60C-2 DPR-1 and two sisters lead a westbound unit coal train that is about to crest the grade into Coyote Basin west of Mormon Gap, Colorado, on Octo... (more)

In the high desert area of eastern Utah, an eastbound Deseret Power Railway unit train passes through a region of mud mounds at milepost 31 a few miles east of the Bonanza Power Plant on a beautif... (more)

A westbound afternoon run of Deseret Power Railway climbs out of Mormon Gap, Colorado, with 44 cars of coal for the Bonanza Power Plant, on October 21, 2015. Three GE E60 electrics are digging in ... (more)

An afternoon run of the Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal train has just crested Holum Pass and is now dropping downgrade past milepost 7 at Blue Mountain, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.

Shortly after departing Deserado Mine loadout located north of Rangely, Colorado, a westbound Deseret Power Railway coal train passes milepost 1 on October 19, 2015.

Deseret Power Railway coal train has just finished loading at the Deserado Mine loader at the DPR loop and facility north of Rangely, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 19, 2015. Soon, a new cr... (more)

The Deseret Power Railroad: Definitely a highlight of the "Spike 150" trip in early May 2019, we were able to find ourselves seeing the isolated and little-seen railroad that is the Dese... (more)

Having just left the loadout, a trio of Deseret Power E60's climbs the grade towards Dinosaur, Colorado.

BM&LP coal empties make way out of Page on a nice, sunny morning.