The last non patched D&RGW unit on the Union Pacific Railroad leads the LJP45 'dirt train' on the Sunnyside Subdivision near Banning. This local, based out of Helper will soon end it's journey at ... (more)

DRGW 5371, the last "pure" Rio Grande unit on the UP brings it's next to last Dirt Train up the Sunnyside Sub. Just ahead is the East Carbon Development Co's hazardous waste disposal site, the des... (more)

This is the well known Union Pacific LDP45 local, otherwise known as the "dirt train" Todays dirt train was without dirt however; just a run to East Carbon Development to pick up emptys. Lead unit... (more)

An EMD SD9043MAC leader was a welcome sight on the point of UP's Dirt Train local Oct. 17th. The little seven car train is approaching the yard at East Carbon Development's high tech landfill site... (more)

On a gorgeous day in the Green River Desert, UP's Dirt Train local rolls by the steepled Community Church in tiny East Carbon City, Utah.

A classic quad of EMD SD40-2's lead Union Pacific's "dirt train" containers through the lonely Green River Desert at Banning, Utah. The rugged Book Cliffs loom large to the north of this former D&... (more)

Here's a little slice of Americana for you: A Union Pacific SD40-2 rolls through the tiny desert community of East Carbon City while classic Studebaker and Cadillac vehicles sit outside a local ga... (more)

Weeds and old stick rail define this as a lightly used branch line to nowhere. A trio of UP SD40-2's rock back and forth along UP's Sunnyside Sub, approaching East Carbon City where the crew will ... (more)

The unmistakeable roar of three EMD SD40-2's notched out is a treat for the ears! UP 3121 (ex-UP 3774), 3538, and 3574 have 25 loads of San Francisco Peninsula dirty dirt for burial at ECDC on th... (more)

Union Pacific's "dirt train" power rolls slowly down the Sunnyside Sub at milepost 13.4, just west of East Carbon City. D&RGW's joint UP Kaiser unit coal trains once descended this 3% grade with S... (more)

Union Pacific's last original Rio Grande unit climbs the Sunnyside Sub grade with 10 cars of dirty dirt for ECDC. The brakeman is outside the cab catching some clean Green River Desert air.

The famous "dirt train" local climbs the grade from Grassy Trail wash at Mounds to East Carbon City.

UP's last Rio Grande numbered locomotive runs parallel to Grassy Trail Creek at milepost 2.66 of UP's Sunnyside Subdivision. This train of contaminated dirt will terminate at East Carbon Developme... (more)

Rio Grande 5390 leads the eastbound LJP45 "Dirt Train" near East Carbon City.