Twenty-three cars rumble westwards towards Satanta behind a pair of GP30's on Cimarron Valley railroad--an ex-Phelps Dodge unit led by former Rio Grande 3020, passing the elevators at Haggard.

Toto, we're not in Utah any more! Freshly painted in a pleasing coat of blue paint, former Rio Grande GP30 3020 leads a sister GP30, Southwestern Railroad 28, back to Satanta with a 23-car Dodge C... (more)

In the years following the SP-Rio Grande merger, traffic levels boomed across the SP's "Central Corridor," perhaps its last big hurrah before the UP merger and current bleak prognosis for traffic ... (more)

Generators from a grimy set of EMD's howl as they lift a lengthy westbound freight around the 35mph near-horseshoe curve at the base of a 1 percent climb up from Grassy to Cedar siding on the Gree... (more)

Thunderstorms deluge the book cliffs of the Green River desert as westbound Amtrak California Zephyr streaks west betweeen Vista and Woodside sidings.

Off to the boneyard: Having faithfully served Union Pacific since the early 1960s, a string of 70-ton ore hoppers build for Geneva Steel taconite service roll northward on a manifest train at sunr... (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)

It's like the 60s never ended on a fall morning in 1988 at Welby Junction, where the Magna and Copperton branches out of Midvale separate. A pair of as-delivered GP30s switch their train while a t... (more)

Four 3000-hp EMD's--a pair each of SD40T-2's and GP30's--descend into the steepening grade of the Price River Canyon between Colton and Kyune with lumber drag #146, a heavy manifest off the Southe... (more)

Rear-end helpers added at Castilla dutifully follow their eastbound lumber drag downgrade towards Helper amid the remnants of the first snowfall of the season. The train is leaving the relatively ... (more)

Beautiful apparition of the past soon after dawn on a fall day in 1988 as a trio of classic GP30s essentially unchanged in 26 years of service near Welby Junction on the run back from Magna with t... (more)

GP30 3016 leads three sisters in crystal-clear cold air of a January morning in 1989, working the Midvale Tramp's return from the Kennecott smelters at Magna back to the Bingham branch.

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.

I can't imagine the "Why" let alone the "how" on that dirt bike tied down on the side running boards of the lead locomotive of this westbound coke train winding along the Arkanasas River approachi... (more)

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)