Eastbound DRGW train near Desert UT

UP 8736 leads the grind uphill as the loaded coal train passes under Highway 6 with the majestic bookcliffs in the background.

Out on the high desert of eastern Utah on the Rio Grande. Not a Rio Grande locomotive in site. As Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9314 leads 3 GP60's as they race westbound across the desert.

Spring rainstorms, including one helluva dust devil behind the tallest peak, hover over the Bookcliffs as Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr flies out of Desert, Utah, on May 4, 2003.

Spring rainstorms hover over the Bookcliffs as Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr flies out of Desert, Utah, on May 4, 2003.

BNSF's daily Stockton-Denver mixed freight holds in the siding at Desert awaiting a westbound empty oil train out here on a fairly remote stretch of the former Rio Grande.

A BNSF trackage rights train to Denver curves through the Utah desert on its way east, about to pass under US 6 outside of Green River, UT under threatening skies.

UP's Roper, UT to North Yard, CO manifest freight highballs east in the Green River Desert on a hot September 7, 2013 west of Green River, UT.