Two SD40Ns run light through CP784 towards Grant Tower in Salt Lake City. Behind it is an extra run of the MGRRO which arrived in North Yard mere minutes before from Green River, Wyoming.
The HUTAHJ is the Provo to Martin turn, a local train that supplemented Utah Railway's coal traffic over Soldier Summit with oil traffic in the form of loads and empties of oil, natural gas and fr... (more)
The Idaho Falls yard was hopping with activity as the Eastern Idaho Railroad prepped trains to go out on its branchlines. While one GP35L switches in the background, another waits for permission t... (more)
Snaking around itself at the bottom of the Gilluly Loops, the crew of a loaded coal train prepares to enter the smoke column of a massive forest fire burning a only a few miles ahead near Tie Fork... (more)
Having just crested Soldier Summit, a loaded coal train curves around the lowest loop at Gilluly, Utah.
A westbound Military equipment move meets breezes past an eastbound intermodal train in the hole at Jericho, Utah on the old Los Angeles & Salt Lake mainline known today as the Lynndyl Subdivision... (more)
Amtrak No. 6 speeds through the curve at Thompson Springs on its way to Denver.
Over the past week several BNSF unit grain trains have operated on a detour route over Union Pacific's Lakeside sub, south through Salt Lake City then east through Provo. These trains have been ni... (more)
Uintah started out as the last construction camp before Ogden on the original Transcontinental Railroad Route. Today the little town at the mouth of Weber Canyon is kept lively only by the frequen... (more)
This extra section of the MGRRO is on the home stretch to its terminal location of Salt Lake City's Roper Yard. Here it passes through Centerville, Utah, reducing speed for some MOW equipment on t... (more)