With some excellent help, we did a great afternoon chase with the Salina to Limon local freight train. As anytime with the Kyle, these jobs do things as hard as possible. With 2 hour of work at Bu... (more)

With some excellent help, we did a great afternoon chase with the Salina to Limon local freight train. The sun came out at the right time, as they got to Burlington. As anytime with the Kyle, thes... (more)

The old Rock Island west of Bethune gets to be the wild west alittle bit with rolling hills and grades. Unfortunately when we were out here in 2023, we never got a train between Bethune and Flagle... (more)

The westbound Salina to Limon train departs Dresden after getting cars spotted at the elevator. The crew will run 9.4 miles ahead to Sleden before tying down for the winter weather coming in tonig... (more)

As the day comes to an end, the 2nd crew of the day has just begun and will start the evening tasks on this westbound train. Here at Brewster they will set out some cars before heading to Goodland... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

This is my 5,000th photo on Railpics. It has been a good run over the past 17 years. Thanks for all the views, comments, favorites, and support from many. Here is one of my favorite from my KYLE t... (more)

After a 20-hour shutdown for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between at Levant as the crew does their work on th... (more)

There are some cool relics along this old Rock Island mainline to Colorado Springs. A lot of the code line has been taken down along with some of the ABS signals. Here east of Brewster, along old ... (more)

After a 20-hour shut down for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between Sleden and Rexford on the Phillipsburg Sub... (more)

A westbound Utah Railway coal train storms over the top of the grade at Soldier Summit, Utah, on February 1, 2007. The train is led by a quartet of unique EMD/MK50-3 locomotives.

Utah 5006 leads a rare train of mixed traffic into Martin. Using a car of military equipment as a buffer for empty oil cars and empty coal hoppers behind that, the Utah still seemed to be well in... (more)

This 5 unit set of Utah Railway helpers is rolling downgrade at Kyune near the top of the Price River Canyon. Actually I should have called them "helps" as that is what the Utah Ry. calls them. Ju... (more)

Transplanted to the G&W's Kyle Railroad, Utah Railway MK50-3 5006 leads two KYLE EMD's on the point of an eastbound freight. The train is awaiting a new crew on the western outskirts of Goodland, ... (more)

Four Utah Railway units sporting the gray and red paint scheme enter the main line. Utah Railway 5006 6062 5001 5003 have just pulled a load of coal out of the CV Spur. Six Utah Railway helpers ha... (more)