A well worn GE AC4400CW-CTE leads Union Pacific's North Platte, NE to West Colton, CA manifest out of North Yard in Salt Lake City.

With four GE motors and a single EMD for power, Union Pacific's Global 1, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah expedited intermodal glides west through Salt Lake City. Signature Books, the Tesoro Refi... (more)

Tiptoeing through the Backyard of the Titans, a Rio Grande train interchanged from Southern Pacific at Ogden negotiates the Grant Tower interlocking plant, SP power in the ill-fated SPSF merger pa... (more)

Rio Grande's Fourth South Switcher takes the evening off in the old D&RGW yard in downtown Salt Lake City.

Built nearly 38 years ago by EMD, a beefy MP15AC makes an appearance at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The UPY 1453 was built the Southern Pacific 2725 in Sept. 1975. Check out the rare (for UP)... (more)

With snowy Mt. Olympus of the Wasatch Range in the background, Union Pacific's MNPWC meets Utah Railway's RUT312 local at North Yard in Salt Lake City.

A fine pair of UP rebuilt SD40Ns lead a 19 car YSC53 local west through Salt Lake City on a cold and wintry February 23, 2013 afternoon. The UP 1653 was rebuilt in North Little Rock, Arkansas from... (more)

A recent delivery from EMD leads Union Pacific's MNPWC west through Salt Lake City.

A thunderstorm rolls through the Salt Lake Valley, a well-placed bolt back-lighting the signal bridge at Vine Street on Rio Grande's two-main-track south of Roper Yard.

Though Union Pacific might have had the dominating presence in Salt Lake City--its Beaux Arts depot loomed over the western edge of downtown, complete with massive logotype shield--smaller, fiesti... (more)

Dressed in 'freight car orange' paint, a 50-foot FMC-Gunderson double door box car was on public display in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1986. The Wood Packer was a series of 100 cars purchased new b... (more)

The Denver & Rio Grande Western's very first SD40T-2 'tunnel motor' finds itself in Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City. The 5341, part of a series of 73 units was constructed by EMD in O... (more)

In November of 1986, Amtrak's California Zephyr, Desert Wind, and Pioneer long distance passenger trains were moved from the Union Pacific depot to the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City. A few we... (more)

Railroad equipment from Salt Lake Valley carriers was on display for Transportation Day at the Rio Grande depot on May 17, 1986. Just out of view behind the Amtrak Superliner car is a UP C30-7.

A classic EMD builder's plate graces the sill of D&RGW SW1200 #134. I've never really thought of an EMD yard switcher as an 0-4-4-0.