D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

What is this? A Canadian National locomotive leading a coal train from a mine in Colorado on Union Pacific tracks in Utah! Taken at Mounds, Utah.

We’re at Mounds, in eastern Utah, the junction point of the Sunnyside Industrial Lead with the mainline Green River Sub. Union Pacific SD60M #2373 has spent 3 or 4 hours on this branch at the Ea... (more)

Three brand new EMD SD70Ace-T4’s coming at you in eastern Utah. Thanks to a very helpful railfan in the Denver area I got enough advance notice of this MNYRO to get into position to capture thes... (more)

The very last one is pulling it's next to the last one! So, in case you don’t understand that; the D&RGW 5371 was the very last unpatched and unrenumbered D&RGW unit on the Union Pacific. It is ... (more)

When the Union Pacific finally retired the D&RGW SD40T-2 #5371 in late February 2008 it was the end of an era for Rio Grande fans. There was a period of more or less mixed motive power assignments... (more)

Running fast on the Union Pacific in the eastern Utah desert, #6 is just going over the switch at West Mounds. Mounds is where the Sunnyside Branch leaves the Green River Sub. to access the ECDC h... (more)

So, here I am sitting on a gray shale hill, all by myself before dawn, out in very rural eastern Utah. Cattle are bawling and a coyote runs across a field near me. I am waiting for Amtrak #6, the ... (more)

Amtrak #6, the eastbound California Zephyr, is pictured here rolling alongside the last green fields it will see for many miles as it enters the barren eastern Utah desert. The train has been fol... (more)

It doesn't take much imagination to think this shot is from the 1980's what with those 3 matched and gleaming SD40N's. But, those blue ECDC hazardous material containers spoil the 1980's look. Thi... (more)

It had to happen sooner or later. The last run of the last "pure" unpatched and un renumbered D&RGW unit on the Union Pacific. Fittingly it was on the Dirt Train local out of Helper, Utah. My frie... (more)

D&RGW 5400 West leads the "Dirt Train" back to Helper, UT.

The Union Pacific runs its LDP45 local a couple of times a week. This is the well known “dirt train” local out of the yard at Helper, Utah. Normally the train runs east on the Green River Sub ... (more)

The crazy things railfans do to get a picture. I left my house at 4:30AM this morning and drove about 100 miles over a 9100’ pass to get to the town of Wellington, Utah just so I could take this... (more)

Westbound Amtrak Zephyr at the east switch of Grassy siding, Utah. This is midway between the towns of Green River and Wellington, Utah. These ex. D&RGW tracks run at the base of the spectacular B... (more)