With colorful Coyote Basin stretching off into the distance, the Deseret Power Ry’s afternoon loaded train is fully stretched out on this short grade. The train is 44 loaded aluminum coal hopper... (more)

It was over 33 years ago, but it seems like yesterday. Rio Grande Zephyr at Grassy, Utah

Utah Ry. #5005, an MK5000 model, rests in the sunlight at the Martin, Utah, enginhouse awaiting its next helper assignment. The photo was taken from the public road that crosses the tracks directl... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 #DPR-1 rolls out from under the Old Bonanza Highway underpass with it’s normal 44 car train of empties. It has just climbed out of the dry wash it follows away from the Bonanz... (more)

Union Pacific's "Snow Bus" awaits the blizzards soon to come.

This good looking ex. SP AC4400CW has the daily Roper Yard to Roseville manifest train rolling around Arnold's Loop in eastern Nevada. The gradient here on this ex. Western Pacific trackage is 1%,... (more)

A picture of the future for the Utah Ry. 3 units painted in Genessee & Wyoming orange lead this empty coal train downgrade near the bottom of Utah's Price River Canyon on the Union Pacific Provo S... (more)

Deseret Ry's morning loaded coal train has finished unloading at the power plant and is now on the way back to the Deserado Mine. The coal train has been running 4 days each week lately. Today the... (more)

DPR #1 leads an empty coal train out of the Deseret Power plant near Bonanza, Utah. The train is approaching MP 34. The plant’s coal handling equipment is visible in the background. This locatio... (more)

Deseret Ry's loaded coal train has just gone under Colorado Highway 64 and is headed towards Mormon Gap about 2 miles ahead. The Utah state line is just a couple of miles past Mormon Gap.

Posing for her portrait like a prom queen, Deseret Power Ry. #DPR-4 is just out of the shop with new paint and a new name. #4 was the first of the railroad’s 4 active locomotives to get the new ... (more)

The collapse of Tunnel 11 on Union Pacific’s Cascade line in Oregon has resulted in some detours through Utah. I set out to find and shoot some of these detours far from their usual haunts. My f... (more)

Western Pacific train APRG, Auto Parts Rio Grande, arrives at the DRGW’s Roper Yard in Salt Lake City. Scanned from a color print.

DPR-1, a General Electric E60 built in 1983, is accelerating up to track speed as it leaves the Bonanza Power Plant in eastern Utah. This train has just finished unloading 44 cars of western Color... (more)

Utah Ry. had only 2 of these leased, ex. SP, units in this gray scheme. Seen here leading coal loads down the 2% grade at Gilluly on the west side of Soldier Summit. Scanned from a color print.