American President Line stack trains heading to Oakland and Los Angeles prepare to depart North Yard in Salt Lake City on August 26, 1993.

UP's YSC25R shoves a long cut of cars into track 104 at North Yard while building an MSCWC train that will depart Salt Lake City for West Colton later that evening.

A pair of Utah Railway GP38-3s pull east through Salt Lake City on the way to Woods Cross to switch tank cars at Holly Refining.

An clean EMD SD70AH leads a Global 1 to City of Industry stacker west through Salt Lake City on Sept. 5, 2015.

After spending most of the summer working in local service out of Helper Yard, UP GP40P-2 No. 1373 finds itself assigned to an RCL switch job at North Yard in Salt Lake City. The 1373 is from a cl... (more)

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City Diesel Shop, which opened in 1955, employed 500 workers during its peak in the 1970s. The shop was sold to the Utah Transit Authority in 2003, and renamed the Warm S... (more)

The Union Pacific Railroad had all kinds of neat old equipment stored behind the UP depot in Salt Lake City. I wish I had photographed more of it, but glad I captured a few. Check out this old Gen... (more)

Salt Lake City's Union Pacific Depot had its tracks removed in favor of mall development in anticipation of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Same for the Rio Grande depot down the street, where Amtrak Ca... (more)

Salt Lake Central station is bustling with activity through the day with its numerous TRAX light-rail and FrontRunner commuter trains. Once those trains have gone away for the night, two Amtrak tr... (more)

On Salt Lake City's TRAX system exists a roundabout with light-rail tracks running down the middle. Does this make it a "thruabout"?

After a crew change and permission from dispatcher 5 to depart, the KG3LB-02 exits North Yard in Salt Lake City for ICTF in Long Beach on Sept. 3, 2015.

A Chicago & North Western SD60 leads a colorful Yermo to North Platte mixed freight, departing North Yard in Salt Lake City on May 9, 1994.

Union Pacific business car Arden was built in 1950 by Pullman Standard as coach No. 5449. It was rebuilt in 1952 to the business car Arden without ever seeing regular passenger service. The car wa... (more)

Three Way Meet at Third North Crossing

General Electric C36-7, C30-7, and C40-8 models pull a Milpitas to North Platte auto train out of North Yard in Salt Lake City on July 22, 1995.