Two generations of EMD coal haulers mingle in the joint Utah Railway - Union Pacific terminal at Provo.

A Utah Railway CLBTC coal empty heads east along the 1983 Thistle line change at Milepost 682 near Castilla. The original routing of both US Highway 6 and the Rio Grande mainline are below and to ... (more)

Before the UP-SP merger, one could expect to catch more than two dozen trains per day passing through Rio Grande's upper horseshoe curve east of Gilluly, Utah. Photographed a couple of weeks befor... (more)

On a warm July 10, 1993 morning, 84 loads of Star Point coal depart the Wattis Plateau loader for Intermountain Power.

A matched quartet of Utah Railway SD40s lead export coal west along the frozen Price River near Kyune.

Captured on an unbearably cold and windy New Year's Eve morning in '94, a Utah Railway coal empty meets a Southern Pacific coal load at the top of 7440 ft. Soldier Summit. Why do we take pictures ... (more)

After cutting out its mid-train helpers on the siding, a quad of Utah Railway SD40s drag an 81 car export coal load west over the apex at Soldier Summit. The train will descend 3000 feet of eleva... (more)

A well matched quartet of Utah Railway SD40s lead a Moapa, NV to Wildcat, UT coal empty east through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching the Thistle Tunnels. Note the former D&RGW grade and Highway 6 ... (more)

On a gorgeous July morning in 1993, an 84 car Intermountain Power coal empty is loading at the Wattis Plateau flood loader near Hiawatha. The facility was designed to ship 200,000 tons of coal ann... (more)

EMD SD40s RULE! A Utah Railway coal load meets Burlington Northern Santa Fe's MDVSTJ at the apex of 7440 ft. Soldier Summit.

A quartet of Utah Railway SD40s move a heavy train of export coal through Price Canyon near Lynn.

Canadian National train 340, led by a Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific SD40, passes through a wintery Steward, Illinois, at 10:21 a.m. on February 13, 1994. CN operated on the Burlington Northern to Chi... (more)

A Utah Railway coal empty meets a loaded train with mid-train helpers at the West Switch Kyune on August 8, 1999.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train No. 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. Former Colorado & Southern SD40 No. 6339 leads the train into an oppressive wind th... (more)

A warm April 1997 afternoon finds Provo Yard awash in gray and red Utah Railway power. Included in the lashups are six SD40s, an F45, and an SD45-2. Technically the F45 and SD45-2s are SD40s as th... (more)