Normally the Deseret Power Ry.'s swing shift finds a loaded train waiting for them when they come on duty at 4PM. Not today though. They did not start the loading process until nearly 6PM. This wa... (more)

The dark storm clouds just kept getting worse and worse as I waited for the Deseret Power Ry’s afternoon loaded train. Waiting for the next train and hopefully better light just isn’t an opti... (more)

The day's second loaded coal train is seen here a few miles from the line's terminus; the Bonanza Power Plant. Unlike most E60s found in coal services in the four corner states, the DPR-1 and DPR-... (more)

Almost a calendar shot. The Deseret Power Ry.'s morning train is just now getting up to track speed as it leaves the Bonanza Power Plant. These barren uplands of eastern Utah are covered with abou... (more)

Anyone who has ventured out to eastern Utah to photograph the Deseret Power Ry. knows that it runs through a very sparsely populated area. It doesn't run through a single town. There are no at gra... (more)

This image was taken from the right hand seat of the Deseret Power Ry.'s E60 electric # DPR1. The location is around Milepost 3 on this western Colorado and eastern Utah coal hauler. The train had... (more)

This beautiful 4 unit set of all of the Deseret Power Ry’s active E60 electric’s is stopped on the line waiting for orders near MP22. MP22 is practically on the Utah/Colorado state line. Engin... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s E60 electric unit #DPR1 leads the afternoon loaded train westbound at the very summit of Holum Pass. This is the high point of this isolated railroad. The units are just... (more)

After the Deseret Power Ry finished painting 3 of their 4 E60’s they did not paint their 4th operational E60 due to costs. For a few weeks they ran the 3 newly painted units as a set. Then reduc... (more)

Whats not to like about the Deseret Power Ry. It has clean, freshly painted, and very uncommon power; it connects with no other railroad; it runs through nearly uninhabited western scenery; and is... (more)

It's early afternoon and Deseret Power Ry's first run of the day is a little late getting finished unloading and heading back to Colorado. The train is heading upgrade here, following an unamed, d... (more)

Late on a stormy summer afternoon, Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Bonanza Power Pl... (more)

Deseret Power Ry motor #DPR-1 leads the afternoon loaded train downgrade at about MP 31.5. It is following an unnamed dry tributary of Kennedy Wash and will shortly duck under Utah Highway 45 for ... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry in eastern Utah and western Colorado is in the middle of a project to repaint their entire fleet of 4 active E60C’s. So far they have completed two of them; DPR #1 and DPR #... (more)