While the First Help waits on track #1, Union Pacific's Salt Lake-Denver (MRONY) manifest rolls by on track #2, prepared to stop just east of the crossover at Castilla. After dispatcher #78 flags ... (more)

As viewed from the shoulder of US Hwy. 6, UP's Salt Lake-Denver (MRONY) manifest prepares to stop on track #2, just east of the crossovers at Castilla. In the distance, Union Pacific's First Help ... (more)

With two main tracks and CTC, UP dispatcher #78 has lined the MRONY from main #2 to main #1, thereby avoiding numerous slow orders from a track maintenance campaign on track #2. Without opposing t... (more)

A pair of EMD SD9043MAC's lead UP's daily Salt Lake-Denver (MRONY) through the Thistle Tunnels on track #2. This trackage was constructed in 1983 through Billy's Mountain, avoiding the former town... (more)

A pair of EMD SD9043MAC's lead UP's daily Salt Lake-Denver (MRONY) manifest at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. Nine brand new wind turbines constitute Utah's first wind farm, capitalizing on the... (more)

BNSF Railway's Stockton-Denver 'Q' train heads east along the 1983 Thistle line change made necessary by a massive mud slide which shut down the original line through Thistle proper. The Thistle T... (more)

BNSF Railway's Stockton-Denver 'Q' train looked great climbing the former D&RGW through the Red Narrows area of Spanish Fork Canyon. Color along these hills is usually at it's peak during the thir... (more)

Accelerating back up to track speed, Amtrak's California Zephyr departs a short slow order due to a highway bridge replacement project on US Hwy. 6 at Detour.

BNSF 5368 leads a colorful consist including an ATSF Warbonnet GE and a KCS Retro Belle SD70ACe eastbound with a trackage rights train on the old Rio Grande at Castilla. The fall colors are start... (more)

An overnight storm system lifts at sunrise while a BNSF eastbound crosses the Diamond Fork River in Spanish Fork Canyon. The fall foliage is at it's peak on this, the first day of fall along the o... (more)

Captured moments after sunrise, Amtrak's California Zephyr heads east through Spanish Fork Canyon just east of the ghost town of Thistle, Utah.

BNSF Railway's Denver-Provo manifest curves west through the Red Narrows area in Spanish Fork Canyon. This area was a favorite of mine for catching the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 in late evening ... (more)

A BNSF Railway manifest charges east on the former D&RGW at Rio, Utah.

A matched quad of Utah Railway MK50-3's have 90 empties for the coal loadout at Savage, Utah. The train is at the foot of a 13 mile line change built between Detour and Soldier Summit. The line op... (more)

Charging east up Utah's Soldier Summit, Amtrak's California Zephyr #6 winds along the Spanish Fork River, just east of Castilla. The train is about 18 miles east of it's most recent stop at Provo,... (more)