This shot of a Utah Ry. loaded coal train is the fourth in a series of this same train I’ve posted here on Railpictures. I started by following the empty train as it rolled eastward down Utah’s P... (more)

I managed to catch this BNSF eastbound as it passed through a shaft of sunlight deep in the lower Price River Canyon. The crew is looking directly at the vertical wall of sandstone that is Castleg... (more)

After a crew change at Helper, UP 7656 west has just rounded the vertical slab of sandstone called Castlegate. Earlier in the day it had loaded its 102 empties at the Savage loadout at the end of ... (more)

Here is one of Utah Ry’s Australian SD50’s switching a short train of CO2 tank cars at Wildcat siding, Utah. These heavily insulated cars contain liquid CO2 for use in oil and gas wells and are st... (more)

Utah Ry #5001 brings this loaded coal train downgrade and across the Spring Canyon trestle. Martin Yard is a couple of miles ahead where a 4 unit, mid train, helper set will be added.This train l... (more)

Utah Ry. #5004 leads 4 other 6 axle units up the 2.4% grade in Price River Canyon headed towards Soldier Summit. The train is just exiting the oft photographed horseshoe curve below Kyune. Thanks ... (more)

KCS 4702 has just begun it’s climb up Utah’s Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. The location is below Castlegate at the old coal mining camp of Royal. In spite of the KCS leader and NS unit in ... (more)

This Utah Ry. coal train is part way into its climb up Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. This location is just west of the crossovers at Lynn. Not seen are the 6 manned swing helpers about 2/3... (more)

For my job in oil and gas drilling, I needed to go visit a drilling rig which was drilling a gas well off of Consumers Road near Helper, Utah. Consumers Rd. goes right past the Wildcat coal loadou... (more)

You are looking at the return, loaded, move of a Utah Ry. crude oil train. It had come east from Provo earlier in the day with a train of empty tank cars, which it set out at Martin Yard. They the... (more)

Utah Ry. 5004 and 3 more big 6 axle units are bringing this unit coal train up the lower reaches of Price River Canyon near the crossovers at Lynn. Further back in the train is a 5 unit manned hel... (more)

The iconic sandstone buttress called Castle Gate rises above this westbound Utah Ry coal train as it does battle with the 2.4% grades of the Price River Canyon on this gray winter day. There are 5... (more)

Utah Ry. loads another trainload of coal for the Intermountain Power Project plant near Delta, Utah in this late winter shot. That square white object with a window just to the right of the loadin... (more)

Amtrak #6, led by #42, the Veteran's unit, cruises downgrade, curving around the thin vertical sandstone slab called Castlegate. This is the site of an abandoned and now nonexistent coal mining ca... (more)

Amtrak #6 ran 8 hours late through Nevada and Utah this day due to winter storm induced problems in the Sierras.. For me that meant a daylight passage over Soldier Summit in Utah. It was running w... (more)