UP 7704 rounds the curve with a Valmy coal train. This used to be a water shot. With years of drought all that is left is salt deposits. The Great Salt Lake has surpassed it's all time low level f... (more)

We got treated to UP 1982 bring an oil train through town today. The crew was taking the train to Helper, Utah. It was to be loaded on the Utah Railway main at Wildcat. Not sure how the logistic o... (more)

UP 7704, 6566, and DPU 8033, have really got this coal train moving on the Shafter Subdivision.

This Union Pacific officer special came into Salt Lake on the 19th, and is supposed to head out on the 21st. Word on the street is it's heading to Denver. I fired off a shot from one of the overpa... (more)

Sure nice to get to see these old geep's, earning their keep.

Once the Denver & Rio Grande main line to Ogden. The line of jointed rail is only active to Wood Cross as an industrial leads. The line was destroyed between 1983 and 1985 during flooding. Rio Gra... (more)

Getting good smoke has become a lot harder to get these days. So I was pretty happy to catch the geep's being operated by Rail Serve putting on a show. They are getting their train up and going fo... (more)

It's been 14 year since the SP, Rio Grande merger at the time of this photo. Seven since Union Pacific took over. Don't tell the boys in Helper, Utah the Rio Grande doesn't exist anymore. They gat... (more)

Four Union Pacific SD40-2's come rolling off the Western Pacific causeway 3593, 3312, 3634, and 3472. How things have changed. The causeway was still really a causeway, Black Rock was still an isl... (more)

Amtrak #6 has dropped below the blizzard blowing around Soldier Summit and is now passing Kyune with its center siding. Nearby Highway US 6 has a mile long backup over the summit but #6 just blew ... (more)

Soldier Summit can be a brutal place. D&RGW 5503 provides a helping hand to Amtrak #6, on New Years eve 1987. (Tom Ellis photo)

An EMD SD70ACe and GE ES44AC are in full dynamics as they descend UP's "Wasatch Grade" in Echo Canyon, UT.

I was able to sneak out of work for a minute the other day, and catch the CNW heritage unit passing by. Thanks to the railfan community, it was some very efficient railfanning.

Denver & Rio Grande Western RR, The Action Road

Feeling pretty luck on this one. On my way to work this morning. There was 3 or 4 westbounds stacked up between Smelter and Garfield. This one caught my attention, with the SD70ACe-T4 on the point... (more)