UP 8936 and 8425 cruse across the Great Salt Lake, on the Shafter Sub, with a grain train.

UP GP38N 633 leads the Chevron local through North Temple Salt Lake City. This originally Missouri Pacific 2133, GP38-2, is 47 years old. It looks like it's brand new, with a rebuild into a GP38N,... (more)

UP 7202 pulls a late evening work train along the LASL, Lynndyl Subdivision. If you look in the sky on the right, you can see an Apache helicopter giving chase.

UP 7111 and 6729 are on a power hop. A pretty good looking pair that got rebuilt and repainted before the paint scheme change. UP 7111 has had some type of incident, as it has a new front door. I ... (more)

Union Pacific GP38N 702, and GP15-1 573. Make there way through Salt Lake City 4th South. A transit hub to, Amtrak, Frontrunner, TRAX, Greyhound, and UTA Buses. They are heading for Roper Yard wit... (more)

Some trains are harder to photograph than others. In my attempt to find something good to shoot Saturday. I stumbled across this eastbound in the SLC Intermodal yard about 8:30 a.m. The LA Z train... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD40 204 leads a BN coal train over the MRL.

I was heading home from work, driving across the tracks, and notice a green signal. I made a quick U turn, parked and got trackside. Fortuity the train didn't disappoint, a rebuild C44ACM in new p... (more)

The hottest train on the system in these parts. The Denver to Salt Lake Z train. Unfortunately 6916 isn't a DD40X on the UP roster. But it does have quite the history, and as one point was almost ... (more)

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

A Union Pacific, and a Conrail SD40-2, make their way across the plains of Wyoming on the Overland Route.

The second of back to back trains on the Lynndyl Sub. A rare sight these days. UP 5336 hauls a bare table around the big sweeper at the south end of Lakepoint.

UP 2565 with a whopper 228 car train. Three unit up front, two units mid train, and a DPU shoving on the rear. Three interesting loads of equipment near the front

When Chicago & North Western placed their order for C44-9W's. They decided to save a little money by ordering them without air conditioning. So soon as the temperatures got warm in the coal Fields... (more)

Ever so often, something very bad would happen on the Santa Fe transcon. The main would get blocked, and Santa Fe was forced to run it's hottest trains over the Union Pacific. It was an awesome tr... (more)