With two GEs on the point and two on the rear sandwiching 80 aluminum hoppers, UP's Skyline Mine to Barstow coal train snakes through the red narrows on the former Rio Grande mainline. A spectacu... (more)

On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, two big GEs lead Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load out of the 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon... (more)

Symmetry in Steel - On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, the rear helpers on Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load can be seen after emerging from 3009 ft. Thistle Tu... (more)

Having just departed the confines of Spanish Fork Canyon, Union Pacific's Skyline UT to Barstow CA coal load descends the relatively flat pastureland of the rural community of Mapleton, Utah. 10,9... (more)

On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load emerges from 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon.

A Union Pacific coal train zigs and zags through the 1983 realignment of the former D&RGW mainline just west of Rio, Utah. This Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal train had a nicely matched set of 80... (more)

A pair of General Electric distributed power units trail a Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load down the 2% Soldier Summit grade at the west switch Gilluly, Utah.

Union Pacific's CSKBS-16 looked great curving west through the confines of the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. This time of year, lighting is limited through here as the former D&RGW tracks fo... (more)

An 80 car train of aluminum hoppers function as a conveyor of bituminous coal between Utah's Skyline Mine and northern California. UP's CSKBS-16 is approaching control point RG 662, West Gilluly, ... (more)

A pair of General Electric AC's lead a Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load west down Soldier Summit at Detour station. It was at this point that the former 4% grade alignment east toward Soldier ... (more)

A pair of General Electric distributed power units trail a Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load down Soldier Summit at Detour, Utah. The gradient down the summit's west slope (2%, compensated) fla... (more)

On a beautiful President's Day afternoon, Union Pacific's Skyline UT to Barstow CA coal load emerges from 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon. A special thanks ... (more)