Crossing Coyote Basin
Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train from Deserado Mine near Rangley, Colorado, to the power plant in Bonanza, Utah, crosses remote and stark Coyote Basin... (more)

The AM empty train has just finished up at the power plant in Utah and is now on its way back to Colorado where it will retrieve another load of coal. It is seen here moments before ducking under ... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train to the powerplant in Bonanza, Utah, crosses remote and barren Coyote Basin as it approaches milepost 26 east of Bonanza on the afternoon of June 21, ... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train is climbing out of Coyote Basin between milepost 26 and 27 east of Bonanza, Utah, on a beautiful June 21, 2023.

Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal empties slithers through the curves rolling through Coyote Basin at milepost 24 east of Bonanza, Utah, on October 20, 2015.

With their loaded train emptied, the Deseret rips back east just outside of the Bonanza Generating Station.

On October 20, 2015, an eastbound Deseret Power Railway empty unit coal train rolls through the curve at milepost 24 in colorful Coyote Basin, Utah.

Deseret Power Railway begins the climb out of the Martian like landscape of Utah's Coyote Basin with 44 loads & 7200 tons of coal for the Bonanza Power Plant.

Mid-afternoon empties on their way back east to the mine for another load. The Colorado state line is ~2 miles to the east.

In the high desert area of eastern Utah, an eastbound Deseret Power Railway unit train passes through a region of mud mounds at milepost 31 a few miles east of the Bonanza Power Plant on a beautif... (more)

If you want to get away, the Deseret Railway is the place for you! The Deseret exists solely to transport coal from the Deserado Coal Mine to the Bonanza Power Plant, located about 35 miles apart.... (more)

Eastbound unit coal empties of Deseret Power Railway swing through a sweeping “s curve” at milepost 24 in colorful and remote Coyote Basin, Utah, on October 20, 2015.

Three of Deseret Power Railroad's GE E60C's lead the evening empty hopper train east underneath Utah route 45, having just departed Deseret Power Electric Cooperative's plant near Bonanza, Utah.

An empty coal train leaves the power plant at Bonanza (visible on the horizon) and heads back to the Deserado Mine near Dinosaur, Colo.

After unloading at the Deseret Power Bonanza power plant in the background, the string of empties streaks across the Utah desert on its way back to the Colorado mine.