I Love the Smell of Metal Grinding in the Morning

Viewed from the Dutch door, the rear end brakeman on a Rio Grande rail grinding train watches dome-observation Silver Sky p... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande manifest twists and turns, following the Price River near Kyune, Utah.

A couple Southern Pacific AC4400CW's 349 341 haul a manifest over the ex Rio Grande main. Price River Canyon.

On a wintery February 4, 2004, Union Pacific’s Grand Junction, Colorado, to Salt Lake City manifest freight climbs the grade over Soldier Summit at Kyune, Utah.

A five-unit Utah Railway helper set heads downgrade toward Kyune after helping a westbound coal train up Soldier Summit on February 5, 2004. EMD/MK-50-3 Nos. 5001 and 5002 bracket a trio of EMD SD... (more)

Union Pacific’s Grand Junction, Colorado, to Salt Lake City manifest freight climbs out of Kyune, Utah, on the grade over Soldier Summit on a snowy February 4, 2004.

Funny how time changes perspectives. At the time I was pretty mad that UP decided to start using their own power on these coal trains from Wellington starting the week I had flown out there to sho... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton freight climbs up the eastern grade of Utah’s Soldier Summit through the curves of Kyune on the afternoon of February 5, 2004.

A Union Pacific officer car special rounds a curve near Kyune, Utah headed west towards Soldier Summit.

It’s still snowing on the west slope of Utah’s Soldier Summit, but at Kyune, it’s breaking up revealing subtle colors of a setting sun as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train snakes through... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train headed for Geneva Steel is working through the curves at Kyune, Utah, while climbing over Soldier Summit on September 8, 1995. Powering the train up... (more)

Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors push on a westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train at Kyune, Utah, climbing the eastern grade of Soldier Summit. Passing the helpers is lone Utah Ra... (more)

Utah Railway empty coal train hits first light at Kyune, 9005 and three sisters will load at Wildcat and bring the loads back west this same afternoon.

Union Pacific’s “dirt train” from Salt Lake City to Helper, the LJP44 local, curves downgrade in Price River Canyon between Kyune and Nolan, Utah, on November 21, 2003.

An eastbound BNSF trackage rights manifest eases down the steep grade into the Price River valley as it passes the west end of Kyune center siding.