A KG1LAC train arrives in Salt Lake City for a crew change while an MNPWC creeps into North Yard to make a set out on Dec. 26, 2015.

It's the day after Christmas and the Union Pacific is back to running locals again. The Chevron job is pulling through CP C784, Salt Lake City with a long train of tank cars. Soon the train will c... (more)

Union Pacific's MNPWC-24 train arrives at North Yard in Salt Lake City with a factory fresh Tier-4 ET44AH locomotive in the lead. Dec. 26, 2015

A GATX Locomotive Group GP38-2 has been assigned to work Union Pacific's Pioneer Local out of North Yard in Salt Lake City. GMTX 2616 was built Penn Central GP38 No. 7738 by EMD in August 1969.

A Murdock, Utah to Evanston, Wyoming work train awaits a recrew at North Yard in Salt Lake City on New Year's Day, 2016.

A UTA train pulls into the station. I wish I knew it at the time, but just 10 days earlier, the famous UP 4014 came through town.

A Union Pacific Utah Statehood Centennial train cools its wheels in downtown Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, 1996.

Shortly after sunrise on June 26th, 1982, a pair of Union Pacific GP30s were found in the railroad's yard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both UP 703 and UP 706 were built by EMD in February 1963. Numb... (more)

On June 26th, 1982, Union Pacific TE83-6S 63 sits in pieces as it receives an overhaul at the railroad's Salt Lake City diesel shops. UP SD45s 60-65 were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Ida... (more)

Union Pacific's MNPWC train arrives at North Yard in Salt Lake City with two factory fresh Tier-4 ET44AC units in the lead. Dec. 26, 2015

A Black Butte, Wyoming to Valmy, Nevada coal load departs downtown Salt Lake City on Nov. 4, 1995.

A pair of Union Pacific SD40Ns switch at North Yard while a UTA FrontRunner commute enters the fray during the afternoon rush in Salt Lake City.

The Amoco refinery in Salt Lake City was undergoing major expansion when this photo was taken on Sept. 23, 1995. The landscape looks southeast from Everett Avenue in the middle of the Bamberger Ra... (more)

A 15 car Salt Lake City to Stockton Z train departs North Yard for a trip west on the old Western Pacific on August 12, 1995.

When They Were King: A lineup of Union Pacific 'Comfort Cab' SD60Ms are readied for departure from North Yard with the APLA, CHLAZ, and APOA trains in Salt Lake City on Jan. 29, 1995.