D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

Train as far as the eye can see. One of Union Pacific's monsters. Stretching all the way back to the town of Stockton, and disappearing into Stockton Cut.

You can really see how big this one is here. As the back end wraps around the curve on the left side of the train. I counted 232 Wells or spines on this hot shot. Five locomotives. Four elephant s... (more)

A lot of trust for one locomotive. UP 7353 out in the middle of nowhere with about 80 autoracks. Granted they are empty. But of if anything goes wrong there would be a lot hassle.

All elephant style. A powerful looking group of Union Pacific locomotives, pull their train through Tooele, Utah. The Oquirrh Mountains in the back ground are covered in a fresh layer of snow.

I've wanted to try and replicate a shot I took about 20 years ago for sometime. I went out today in hopes of finding something moving. I stumbled upon this fairly good looking train. With fresh sn... (more)

The Roads No Longer Taken

Four years after a landslide at Thistle, Utah blocked the Spanish Fork River with thousands of tons of earth, wiping out the town, a westbound Rio Grande ... (more)

Moving through the area known as Detour in the Rio Grande timetable, a westbound D&RGW manifest works its way down the Soldier Summit grade.

Time was fast running out for #5371. It was the very last un-renumbered, unpatched Rio Grande unit left on the Union Pacific RR. Fittingly it ran it’s last miles out of Helper, Utah on the “Di... (more)

A Speno rail grinding train is working on Rio Grande’s Soldier Summit grade at Colton, Utah. Streams of sparks can be seen under the grinder cars.

The grade involved in descending the Gilluly Loops is evident in this view of a westbound Rio Grande freight approaching the Route 6 overpass.

Several auto racks and a Rio Grande caboose punctuate a westbound DODX train under grim skies at Soldier Summit, Utah.

A Utah Railway local, rolls through Salt Lake City on a beautiful evening.

The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus train has worked its way down the west side of the Soldier Summit grade and is now on the lower of the two big loops at Gilluly. Grade here is 2%. Th... (more)

Once a place you could see the beautiful California Zephyr trains, of the Western Pacific, and Rio Grande. Then the Rio Grande Zephyr until 1983. Then Amtrak. Now the track are gone, all paved ove... (more)