A Chicago & North Western C44-9W leads a North Platte to Los Angeles Vehicle train west through Salt Lake City on June 18, 1996.

SP 7119 East accelerates south near 5300 South in Salt Lake City moments after departing Roper yard.

A colorful Elko, Nevada to Pocatello, Idaho manifest freight rambles through Buena Vista, three miles west of downtown Salt Lake City on March 16, 1996.

We're a Great Big Rollin' Railroad

EMD road power then and now meet in Salt Lake City on Jan. 9, 2016.

A KG1LAC train arrives in Salt Lake City for a crew change while an MNPWC creeps into North Yard to make a set out on Dec. 26, 2015.

It's the day after Christmas and the Union Pacific is back to running locals again. The Chevron job is pulling through CP C784, Salt Lake City with a long train of tank cars. Soon the train will c... (more)

Union Pacific's MNPWC-24 train arrives at North Yard in Salt Lake City with a factory fresh Tier-4 ET44AH locomotive in the lead. Dec. 26, 2015

A GATX Locomotive Group GP38-2 has been assigned to work Union Pacific's Pioneer Local out of North Yard in Salt Lake City. GMTX 2616 was built Penn Central GP38 No. 7738 by EMD in August 1969.

A Murdock, Utah to Evanston, Wyoming work train awaits a recrew at North Yard in Salt Lake City on New Year's Day, 2016.

A UTA train pulls into the station. I wish I knew it at the time, but just 10 days earlier, the famous UP 4014 came through town.

A Union Pacific Utah Statehood Centennial train cools its wheels in downtown Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, 1996.

Shortly after sunrise on June 26th, 1982, a pair of Union Pacific GP30s were found in the railroad's yard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both UP 703 and UP 706 were built by EMD in February 1963. Numb... (more)

On June 26th, 1982, Union Pacific TE83-6S 63 sits in pieces as it receives an overhaul at the railroad's Salt Lake City diesel shops. UP SD45s 60-65 were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Ida... (more)

Union Pacific's MNPWC train arrives at North Yard in Salt Lake City with two factory fresh Tier-4 ET44AC units in the lead. Dec. 26, 2015