What does a couple million dollars look like, here you go. It's not very often you can get this good of a look at the Salt Lake City dead line. Four NRE 3GS21B, A couple C44-9W and the rest are SD... (more)

I had to change my plans of how to shot this train. When the Utah Railway RUT311 wyed their train at Grant Tower, and backed down the RG runner to get to the Flying J refinery.

With the Utah Railway RUT311 local having just passed on the west rail. UP 4904 leads the LUE46 in. Quite the local it is tonight. Tonight's addition consist of 86 cars.

Union Pacific 4534, and 4904, are nearing the end of their run, as they back in downtown Salt Lake City. They have been out working Tooele county, on the Lynndyl Subdivision on the LUE46 local.

Utah Railway 9006 descends Gilluly with a loaded coal train. Seeing the F45 in the head end consist was a bit rare. It spent most of it's day sandwiched in the helper set. (Tom Ellis photo).

Pulling the grade out of the valley of the Green River in the desolate landscape surrounding the Book Cliffs of Utah, SP 350 leads CTRN coal empties toward Grand Junction, CO and the North Fork Br... (more)

This Union Pacific empty coal train passing Grassy siding in Utah is on it’s way back east for a coal re-load at Bowie, Colorado. When loaded it will head back west to the large IPP power plant ... (more)

Really working their guts out. After waiting about 40 minutes. My train finally make it to me.

The best place I could think of to catch this 211 car 5 locomotive monster. The big sweeper at Jericho on the Lynndyl Sub.

Looking rather worse for wear this unit awaits assignment. Photo by Ryan Ballard, from my collection.

Looking rather worse for wear this unit awaits assignment. Photo by Ryan Ballard, from my collection.

Highball Saint John, Utah.

D&RGW #3077 is eastbound, in your face, at Utah Ry. Junction at the lower end of Price River Canyon. Helper Yard is about 3 miles or so ahead. Those tracks on the left are the yard leads to Utah R... (more)

UP NW2 1044, a GP9 and DRGW SD45 no. 5327 have a transfer at what I believe was the wye that connected the Rio Grande to the Western Pacific in Salt Lake City. The Rio Grande station is in the bac... (more)

UP turbines 14 & 16 A units are parked at Salt Lake City near the Union Pacific station. No. 14 was built in March 1960 and No. 16 was built in June 1960. Both were retired in February 1970 after ... (more)