Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load reduces speed, prepared to stop at Castilla to have a three unit manned helper removed from the train consist.

Amid plenty of new snow, Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load descends Soldier Summit at CP RG677 Rio, Utah. A trio of manned helpers are cut into the train to assist with air & dy... (more)

Amid plenty of new snow, Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load descends Soldier Summit at CP RG677 Rio, Utah. A trio of manned helpers are cut into the train to assist with air & dy... (more)

A pair of distributed power helpers are stopped near Castilla while a swing helper is cut out from this Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load in Spanish Fork Canyon. UP operating procedure calls fo... (more)

Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load descends Spanish Fork Canyon approaching Rio, Utah. Running parallel to the UP double track main is US Highway 6, the deadliest roadway in Utah... (more)

A new motive power era on the Utah Railway has begun with the delivery of 11 rebuilt and painted SD40's from Morrison Knudsen in Boise, Idaho. Here a nicely matched set of four lead a Wattis to IP... (more)

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest sinks it's teeth into the 2% grade on former D&RGW rails in Spanish Fork Canyon. If you look closely, a second train is running parallel to the UP... (more)

A sharp looking BNSF warbonnet C44-9W leads a Union Pacific coal load down former D&RGW rails at Detour, Utah.

A trio of DC traction General Electric locomotives lead a Union Pacific coal train along former D&RGW rails just west of Rio, Utah.

Appearing both strikingly beautiful and oddly out of place at the same time, a red and silver BNSF C44-9W leads a Union Pacific coal train down former D&RGW rails in Spanish Fork Canyon.

A trio of big Union Pacific motors drag a 9504 ton Murdock, UT to Kyune, UT ballast train out of the long 'sag' at milepost 665.5 near the Detour set out track. The 72 Herzog ballast loads have th... (more)

Union Pacific's MRONY train emerges from the darkness of the 3009 ft. Thistle tunnel along the former D&RGW Salt Lake City to Denver mainline.

Traffic has come to a standstill along US Highway 89 while a Union Pacific Savage coal load heads west along former D&RGW rails approaching the twin tunnels at Thistle, Utah.

A trio of DC traction BNSF GE motors lead a Union Pacific Savage coal load along former D&RGW rails just west of Rio, Utah.

Emerging from deep shadows into the morning sun, Union Pacific's Salt Lake City, UT to Denver, CO manifest climbs eastward on former D&RGW rails at CP RG677 Rio, Utah.