As soon a the Union Pacific Chevron Local finished working the industry. Right behind was the Utah Railway RUT311 to work the same industry. As they where sharing the industrial lead.

Almost feels like UP is trying out a new paint job here. Instead of Grey and Yellow, It's Brown and Yellow with gray trucks. Reminds me of the short lived Utah Southern with their SD40's painted B... (more)

Taking advantage of the last week of June when the sun in far north in sky. On an essentially northbound train.

Two Utah Railway units have badly faded paint 2000, and 3002. The crazy thing is they are the ones with the newest paint jobs in 2015. Second unit 2008 was painted 2013.

I was tipped off the night before. That the GP7U, RSSX 1337 would lead the train up from Garfield to the Smelter in the morning. Kind of crazy to see a 70 plus year old locomotive still in regular... (more)

Union Pacific 5807 looking a little rough. Hope fully it will make it's way to Wabtec for a rebuild and some fresh paint. It does appear to have got new trucks. They aren't messing around with thi... (more)

Utah Railway 2007 and 2001 are switching tank cars at Woods Cross Industrial lead. Utah Railway 2007 in it's former life was SSW GP35 780, then SSW 6680, then SP 6680.

Utah Railway 2001 once a Rio Grande GP35. Works the Woods Cross Industrial lead. These tracks were once the Rio Grande main to Ogden. So you can say it's on home rails. The dispatcher, and crews c... (more)

Always a challenging railroad to photograph. Every so often I get an unobstructed shot, with good lighting, of the Salt Lake Garfield & Western.

It's not very often three locomotives are used on Utah Railways Salt Lake City locals. I would guess the workload was extra heavy today. The Utah Railway RUT312 has been working the refinery on th... (more)

Intermountain Railcar, IPPX 1 SW1001 switching loaded coal hoppers at Springville, Utah on March 8, 2018. The IPPX 1 was the last SW 1001 built by EMD.

UTA Front Runner 1 shows up at just the right time. As UP 6649 pulls out of Salt Lake City North yard, and heads toward Oakland.

UP train heading to Potsh.

Amtrak train hauled by P42DC locomotives 137 and 11.

UP 7277 heads west along the Great Salt Lake through the former SP Lucin Cutoff.