A TRAX Blue Line train is seen here southbound on S. Main St. in downtown Salt Lake City headed for suburban Sandy further south in the valley. That red brick building in the background is the Lit... (more)

A three plus hours late Amtrak #6 is just about to duck under US Hwy 6 at Gilluly, Utah. It will then be on the middle level of the Gilluly loops. The 2% grade here will continue all the way to S... (more)

This loaded BNSF coal train is sitting crewless on the south leg of the Bell Ayr wye in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. Often coal trains, such as this one, are loaded by a separate loading crew and... (more)

This 5 unit set of Utah Railway helpers is rolling downgrade at Kyune near the top of the Price River Canyon. Actually I should have called them "helps" as that is what the Utah Ry. calls them. Ju... (more)

BNSF 4592 and UP 6500 descend the east side of the Soldier Summit grade in Price River Canyon below Kyune. The train consists entirely of TILX aluminum hoppers. It continued on down to Helper wh... (more)

Utah Ry. is bringing this short, 20 car, coal train up the 2.4% grade at the top of Price River Canyon on the Provo Sub. The train loaded on the Savage Spur between Price and Wellington. Maybe thi... (more)

Just north of East Belle Ayr Jct. on the BNSF Orin Sub. in eastern Wyoming is Whitetail Hill. It is steep enough to require loaded trains to get an assist from the Belle Ayr helpers which are seen... (more)

Sitting on a hard dolomite knob just below Arnolds Loop I could intermittently hear this eastbound MRVRO coming down the 1% grade of Silver Zone Pass as it went into and then out of the many deep ... (more)

Deseret Power’s morning, loaded, train ran around 4 hours early this morning so as to open a window for the maintenance crew to replace a rail at around MP 1.5. The now empty morning train rolle... (more)

It's 4:30 PM and Deseret Power Ry's afternoon train has just left the loadout. The morning crew had loaded the afternoon train on their return from taking the AM train to Bonanza and back. The swi... (more)

Running fast on the Union Pacific in the eastern Utah desert, #6 is just going over the switch at West Mounds. Mounds is where the Sunnyside Branch leaves the Green River Sub. to access the ECDC h... (more)

Southern Pacific's RVKCM is seen here roaring east through the tight confines of Red Narrows. The Spanish Fork River, US Highway 6 and the double track, ex D&RGW mainline are jammed together in th... (more)

I followed this westbound train for about 100 miles as I traveled west on I80 across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and into Nevada. I got a shot of it at Pilot siding and then got ahead of it ... (more)

Norfolk Southern to the rescue; in Utah! Union Pacific's daily manifest train, the MRONY, on the Provo Sub. stalled on the 2% grade between Gilluly and Soldier Summit not far west of the summit o... (more)

These 2 grimy coal motors are leading a coal train eastbound past the 12 million year old volcanic neck called Finger Rock. Location is between Yampa and Toponas on the ex. D&RGW Craig Branch in C... (more)