Deseret Ry's morning coal train is seen here crossing under Utah Highway 45 through the dull, gray claystone badlands on it’s way back to the Deserado Mine in western Colorado for yet another lo... (more)

DPR-1 leads all 4 of the active E60 electrics out of the loading loop and onto the railroad’s main track through a forest of catenary support poles. All of the many poles necessary to carry the ... (more)

Trains on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada are few and far between these days. Two days spent there only yielded a total of 5 trains in daylight. This huge westbound coal train was... (more)

A 7 hour late Amtrak #6 is running along the base of Utah's imposing Book Cliffs. This ex. D&RGW trackage follows these cliffs for 200 miles from Helper, Utah to Palisade, Colorado. It's the longe... (more)

This train, the Union Pacific MRORV, was the second of three bunched up westbound trains I saw this day on Silver Zone Pass. It was behind the BNSF QPVS8J and ahead of a loaded coal train destined... (more)

This is the most reliable daylight train on the Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub.; the MRORV. The only other reliable trains are Amtrak #5 and #6, but they both pass here in the middle of the night. ... (more)

It gets very cold on the uplands of eastern Utah. This early March shot shows a fair amount of snow still on the ground as the Deseret Ry's morning train pulls slowly out of the unloading loop at ... (more)

Here is Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr rounding Arnold's Loop on Silver Zone Pass in far eastern Nevada. Something seems wrong here as this train is supposed to pass by here in the middle of the... (more)

Something a little different today on the Utah Ry; an SD50 led crude oil train seen here descending the 2.4% grade in Price River Canyon. These are empty tank cars headed to Wildcat siding for o... (more)

E60 #DPR-1 with a westbound loaded coal train on the Deseret Ry. is about a mile from the Utah/Colorado state line in this shot taken at Mormon Gap, Colorado. Mormon Gap is a narrow cleft in a hog... (more)

Deseret Ry.'s E60 #DPR-1 rolls east with the morning empty train about 3 miles east of the Bonanza Power Plant. Today's train rates all 4 of the railroad's operational E60's

Amtrak #6 is running a little late today; actually over 7 hours late here at Grassy, Utah on UP’s Green River Sub. It was stuck behind a disabled freight in Nevada and then the engineer ran out ... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 #DPR 1 is just leaving the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant in far eastern Utah on a perfect summer day. Those small mounds on both sides of the track are stabilized sa... (more)

I finally got out yesterday with the objective of photographing Canadian Pacific's Waseca Local that serves my town, Rochester, Minnesota. This local originates at the yard in Waseca, MN. When I m... (more)

Normally Utah Railway’s Australian SD50’s do not lead coal trains over Soldier Summit in Utah. This is the first time I have seen such an occurrence. I checked with RP contributor James Belmon... (more)