Deseret Power DPR-1 is at the loader at the Deserado Mine. A conveyor carries coal from the prep building to the loader.

A Deseret Power loaded coal train swings west toward Mormon Gap as it takes a load of black diamonds to the power plant in Bonanza, Utah.

An empty coal train leaves the power plant at Bonanza (visible on the horizon) and heads back to the Deserado Mine near Dinosaur, Colo.

After unloading at the Deseret Power Bonanza power plant in the background, the string of empties streaks across the Utah desert on its way back to the Colorado mine.

Westbound coal for Bonanza snakes through Mormon Gap under wire.

DPR-1, DPR-2 & DPR-3 leave Coyote Bassin with a loaded coal train and will soon approach target Bonanza Power Plant.

On the morning of October 22, 2015, three GE E60C-2s dig in on the westbound grade climbing into Coyote Basin at milepost 21 on the electrified Deseret Power Railway with 44 cars of coal for the B... (more)

During a four-week-break of coal digging DPR-1 gets a slight refreshment/overhaul at Deseret Railway shop in Rangely (CO). Photo taken with permission.

Making a run for Holum Pass
Deseret Power Railway’s westbound unit coal train is making a run at grade over Holum Pass two miles west of the Deserado Mine Loadout on the afternoon of ... (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.

Coyote Basin, Utah. That is the vast, colorful area in the background of this photo. The Colorado state line is in the hills just behind the last line of colorful rocks in the mid distance. That d... (more)

Deseret Power Ry.’s morning train is seen here rolling south about 3 miles south of the hamlet of Dinosaur, Colorado, population 365. This is about the only place on this 35 mile long railroad w... (more)

After unloading its coal at the power plant in the background, the now empty train heads Eastbound back to the Deserado Mine which is across the state line in Colorado.

The Westbound morning run of the loaded coal train passes Midway Siding which is a couple miles South of the town of Dinosaur.

The Deseret Power Ry. in western Colorado and eastern Utah has exactly one at grade crossing of a public road in it’s entire 35 mile length. This level crossing is of unpaved Moffat County Road... (more)