Westbound, empty Southern Pacific coal train at (drum roll) Ludlow, Colorado, on the old Colorado and Southern main line. No, it’s not a detour. It is running on trackage rights granted to SP at... (more)

Way back when, if the Union Pacific was power short, even the #6936 was available for freight service. Here is proof as the big DDA40X gets the NPLAV-15 underway westbound at Green River, WY. Scan... (more)

This Utah Ry. coal train is part way into its climb up Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. This location is just west of the crossovers at Lynn. Not seen are the 6 manned swing helpers about 2/3... (more)

For my job in oil and gas drilling, I needed to go visit a drilling rig which was drilling a gas well off of Consumers Road near Helper, Utah. Consumers Rd. goes right past the Wildcat coal loadou... (more)

After a 75 mile trip from my home to Helper my first stop was the Utah Railway's Martin Yard. I found one of their engineers just walking out of the yard office and stopped to talk to him. He told... (more)

Union Pacific's passenger special that has been flip-flopping back and forth across Colorado finally made it to Utah today. It left Helper with a Provo crew taking it to Roper Yard in Salt Lake Ci... (more)

Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr, is rolling off its last half mile or so alongside a short section of slide fence, prior to reaching the stop at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. For the last 15 miles ... (more)

A 3 hour late Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr, has finally reached my location at the west end of Glenwood Canyon and is slowing to take the siding at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The Depot is dea... (more)

A rare DC powered MRONY is approaching the west switch of Kyune, Utah on UP’s Provo Sub. Just around the corner the descending grade increases to a max. of 2.4%.

LUL57 is Union Pacific’s symbol for what is commonly called the Lynndyll Local. It runs south out of Provo, Utah on the Sharp Subdivision for around 80 miles to the hamlet of Lynndyll servicing ... (more)

Deseret Ry’s empty morning train is seen here dropping down this steep, but thankfully short, grade onto the floor of Coyote Basin at around MP 27 or so.

Moving east under the protection of a near continuous stretch of slide fence and an assist from UP 6533, Amtrak #6 is rolling upgrade through Byers Canyon just west of Hot Sulphur Springs.

Fourteen years after the UP/SP merger what’s the chance of seeing a lash up like this? This is UP’s daily westbound manifest train on the ex D&RGW, the MNYRO. The two trailing SD60’s are Dir... (more)

You are looking at the return, loaded, move of a Utah Ry. crude oil train. It had come east from Provo earlier in the day with a train of empty tank cars, which it set out at Martin Yard. They the... (more)

This is the most reliable daylight train on the Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub.; the MRORV. The only other reliable trains are Amtrak #5 and #6, but they both pass here in the middle of the night. ... (more)