This shot shows the late afternoon, loaded, coal train of the Deseret Power Ry. rolling downgrade as it nears the Bonanza Power Plant, about 3 miles ahead. This is a Wednesday and so the railroad ... (more)

This view is a nearly daily occurrence on eastern Utah's Deseret Ry. This is the railroads empty train about 3 or 4 miles after it has left the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant. It is fol... (more)

I watched this Utah Ry. coal train load at the Wildcat loadout near Helper and then after it finished loading and cut in mid train helpers at Martin Yard I followed it up Price River Canyon toward... (more)

Seen crossing Loma Alta Creek, Pacific Surfliner #774 is only about a minute or two out of the Oceanside stop on it's way to San Diego. It is running about 15 minutes late today.

The unloading process at Bonanza is finished and 3 of Deseret Power Railway’s E-60 electrics are pulling its empty train around the loop track to head back to the Deserado Mine loader in Colorad... (more)

Amtrak #6 is slowing to a stop in front of the Union Pacific yard office in Helper, Utah. #6 will pick up 3 passengers here today in spite of being 8 hours late. Lead unit #42, the Veterans unit, ... (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)

BNSF 4467 is rolling down the 1% grade on the east side of Silver Zone Pass. The location is Cliffside on the Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada. This is the BNSF’s tri weekly Stoc... (more)

Pilot is the second siding west of the Utah/Nevada state line on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. It is the location of a large limestone quarry whose waste rock dump is seen looming in the backgrou... (more)

Utah Ry #5001 brings this loaded coal train downgrade and across the Spring Canyon trestle. Martin Yard is a couple of miles ahead where a 4 unit, mid train, helper set will be added.This train l... (more)

It’s not every day that you see a one car train with three units for power in Utah coal country. It’s even more unusual when the train has a 4 axle GP40P-2 leading. There were only 3 of this m... (more)

Lakeside, Utah is one ugly place. It is where the Union Pacific Lakeside sub reaches dry land after crossing the Great Salt Lake causeway to the west shore. Not a tree in sight; no permanent popul... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr #6 is seen here rolling through the grey shale badlands at the base of Utah’s Book Cliffs. #6 is running 1’ 20” late this day.

Union Pacific's MRORV climbing the 1% grade of Silver Zone Pass in eastern Nevada. This is one of only 2 trains I saw all day on the pass.

UP 6803 has left Arnolds Loop 2 or so miles behind and it is still on the sustained 1% westward grade leading to the summit of Silver Zone pass. The grade to Silver Zone Summit begins at Wendover,... (more)