A former Australian iron ore SD50S, and a MK5000C with a 5000 horse power Caterpillar motor, sandwich two SD40's. It's a changing of the guard for Utah Railway, with their new to them locomotives.... (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.

Coal empties are in dynamics as they drift down Soldier Summit.

You can feel winters chill, from just looking at this picture of the Zephyr. It's the early morning at Colton, Utah 1978 in the Price River Canyon (Tom Ellis photo)

Four Rio Grande tunnel motors, bring an empty coal train up the canyon, on New Years eve 1987. Tom Ellis photo.

Last shot of the day, it's 8:12 p.m. and the sun is still up. Amtrak number 5 is at Colton, Utah.

Nearing where the Pleasant Valley Subdivision splits off. Amtrak 135 and 824 high ball through Colton, Utah.

BNSF’s near daily westbound trackage rights train has reached the more gentle grades above Kyune along the Price River in Utah. Soldier Summit is around 5 or 6 miles ahead. This shot was taken o... (more)

Three former Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 units and an SP tunnel motor run light eastbound after having assisted a westbound col drag from Helper, Utah.

A lone unit is pushing the rear of a westbound coal train into Kyune Tunnel on the former Rio Grande line over Soldier Summit.

A westbound BNSF freight utilizing trackage rights on Union Pacific's ex-Rio Grande line over Soldier Summit curves along the Price River.

A westbound Utah Railway coal train at Colton, UT, waits for a signal to depart.

The DVRVF Denver to Roseville was little a hot shot train. That ran much of the time with a pure set of GP60's in the mid 1990's. It made for a very good looking set of power. This one had SSW 968... (more)

Something that just never happened. F45 9013 is on the headend of a coal train. In all it's years on the Utah Railway, 9013 basically served as a B unit. It spent most of it's time in the helper s... (more)

It's an F45 fest on the Utah Railway helper set. Two SD40's sandwich F45 5525 (MKM leaser) Utah Railway 9013 and MKM 5527 another leaser. A pretty cool day to be chasing the Utah.