Rio Grande train #177 from Pueblo exits Mud Cut while descending the Mapleton Bench to Springville and points west. I have always liked the look and sound of EMD second generation geeps.

American author/photographer/historian Lucius Beebe's 'Virginia City' Pullman observation car takes a tour of the Denver & Rio Grande Western coupled to Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 at Gill... (more)

Utah's Wasatch Mountain Railway, aka the 'Heber Creeper' traditionally ran doubleheaders on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. On Labor Day '76, Union Pacific 2-8-0 #618 teams up with Pacific Lu... (more)

A well matched quartet of EMD SD40s lead a Utah Railway coal empty east through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching the U.S. Highway 6 overpass at Detour.

Photographed on Kodachrome 25 slide film a few minutes before sun down, Rio Grande ballast train #772 climbs east along the Mapleton Bench approaching Sutro. D&RGW SD40T-2 #5401 (blt. Mar. 1980) w... (more)

A perfect springtime morning in 1989 finds a Southern Pacific SD45T-2R leading Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 east through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. The SP 6776 was built the SS... (more)

With 11,749 ft. Mt. Timpanogos looming in the background, Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 roars east through Springville, Utah. Built by EMD in Dec. 1987, the 403 was one of the last new F40PH... (more)

Among my archive of photos taken of the Rio Grande Zephyr, this one has always been a favorite. Train #18 is winding its way through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon amid broken clouds and n... (more)

SP's hot Denver, CO - Oakland, CA Forwarder meets an eastbound manifest with a helper tied to the rear at the west end of Kyune.

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #5 pauses briefly while Rio Grande dispatcher 5 recites a 'permissive card' to allow the train to flag a red signal at a CTC controlled switch in Utah County known... (more)

Here's a different perspective of a familiar location. Rather than grab the typical track level shot in Price Canyon at Lynn, I decided to climb a rock outcropping and gain some elevation. Amtrak'... (more)

On a rainy morning in Spanish Fork Canyon, the clouds parted in time to illuminate the Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 climbing east through Detour on May 15, 1977.

A pair of new GE AC4400CWs lead Southern Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest east through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. The SP really put this pair of newbies to the test with 12... (more)

A brand new GE ES44AC leads Union Pacific's KG1LA (Global 1, IL - Los Angeles, CA) domestic stack train west through the Morgan Valley at Stoddard Lane.

Union Pacific's 'Chevron Job' pulls 14 tank cars along the former D&RGW Ogden mainline in Salt Lake City. The UPY 1453 is an MP15AC, built the SP 2725 by EMD in Sept. 1975. The HLCX 1064 (now a GP... (more)