Catching a pure set of gray and red Utah Railway GP38-2s is becoming very challenging with only two remain on the roster (UR 2000 & UR 2004). The 2004 and 2008 are pictured on May 31, 2012, interc... (more)

On Father's Day 2012, a busy moment is captured at Provo Yard: a BNSF Provo-Stockton manifest prepares to depart for Roper Yard, the RUT611 awaits departure for Ogden and the RUT211 switcher class... (more)

Utah 5001 roars up the grade near Castle Gate. The area was the site of numerous mines over the years including the sealed Castle Gate Mine. This train loaded farther west in Carbon County and is ... (more)

The chunky lines of an EMD/MK50-3 leads a 72 car Provo-Ogden turn east along the big fill over 90th South Street in Sandy.

Under the watchful eye of the State Capitol, Utah Railway's RUT311 local heads east through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.

Having just returned from Ogden, Utah Railway's RUT612 local backs its train into Provo Yard at CP RG699, Ironton. Gotta love the rare US&S Searchlights that protect the control point's crossover ... (more)

Nine full-out EMD 645 16-cylinder power plants fill the lower Price River Canyon with glorious noise as a westbound Utah Railway IPPX coal load slugs it out on the 2.4% climb to Soldier Summit. Ju... (more)

A pair of red and gray SD50S units await a call to duty at Utah Railway's Martin Shop in Helper, Utah.

On the afternoon of the Summer Solstice, Utah Railway's RUT312 local departs North Yard for the Silver Eagle Refinery in Woods Cross. Some of the last active US&S Searchlights in the Salt Lake Val... (more)

After waiting on Main 3 at CP C784 for two, Utah Railway's RUT311 local departs Salt Lake City with nine cars for Midvale.

Dwarfed by the Geneva Steel slag heap and the Wasatch Range, the UR 2004, running in reverse, heads to Provo with two hoppers from the Pipe Mill spur just west of MP 709.8.

No doubt that's a former SP SD45 leading the way on a westbound Utah Railway coal load atop Soldier Summit: the headlight package, plow and L-shaped windshield certainly give it away. Formerly SP ... (more)

A colorful gaggle of locomotives meet at Utah Railway's Provo Yard.

Where less than a week before tired ex-SP SD45's held sway, a new era had begun on the Utah Railway in early May, 1991, with the arrival of 13 Morrison-Knudsen "MPI" SD40 rebuilds, which worked un... (more)

The end of their lives is just hours away, but the four former Espee SD45's entrusted to the morning coal turn down to the end of the line at Mohrland makes it clear that though worn out, they are... (more)