Drive 'Til You See Headlights is what they said, so that's exactly what I did. Saw this guy coming with plenty of time to pull the car over and shoot out the passenger window.

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #5 roars west along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake on the former Western Pacific Railroad.

After three years of above average precipitation, by 1986 Utah's Great Salt Lake was at a record high level. With SP's causeway out of service, the UP granted the SP trackage rights to detour trai... (more)

Union Pacific's Wendover Local skirts the Great Salt Lake at the junction point of the Ellerbeck Industrial Lead at MP 893 of the former Western Pacific mainline to Oakland.

On a spectacular winter afternoon, Union Pacific's Wendover Local skirts the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake on former WP rails at ABS 9012, nine miles west of Smelter, Utah.

Power for Monday morning's Marblehead Local is tied down in the former Western Pacific yard at Burmester, Utah. The Marblehead serves mineral extraction industries along the southwest shore of the... (more)

Union Pacific's Wendover Local glides west along the Great Salt Lake and the Morton Salt Plant at Ellerbeck, Utah. This track is the former Western Pacific Oakland, CA to Salt Lake City, UT mainli... (more)

Drive Til You See Headlights. Being from the tree-clogged east, I'm not used to being able to see the train coming for miles. Driving west from Salt Lake City, I saw UP's Marblehea... (more)

A pair of GE locomotives lead a grain train west along the Great Salt Lake at Ellerbeck, Utah. One of the commercially viable industries along America's 'Dead Sea' is the extraction of minerals. V... (more)

A pair of GE locomotives (with a third GE shoving on the rear) lead a 96 car grain train west across Utah's 'other causeway', the former Western Pacific fill along the south shore of the Great Sal... (more)

It's has become rare to catch an EMD SD40-2 leading the 'Wendover Local' along the incredibly remote Shafter Subdivision. This up one day and down the next local works mineral extraction industrie... (more)

The distant Oquirrh Mountains appear to tower over Union Pacific's 'Wendover Local' moving along the Shafter Sub just west of Burmester, Utah. This up one day and down the next local works mineral... (more)

A year ago, Union Pacific's Shafter Sub locals were powered by a gaggle of EMD SD40-2's. Power assignments have changed and today a group of SD60M's power the various locals that run along the wes... (more)

A pair of GE locomotives lead a grain train west along Great Salt Lake at Burmester, Utah. Union Pacific's Shafter Subdivision between Smelter, Utah and Alazon, Nevada was part of the historic Wes... (more)

A pair of GE locomotives (with a third GE shoving on the rear) lead a 96 car grain train west across Utah's 'other causeway', the former Western Pacific fill along the south shore of the Great Sal... (more)