Like most railroads the Deseret Ry runs its coal trains in all weather; hot, or cold, snowing or raining, several days a week. Did I mention cold? This picture was taken at 12:30PM and the tempera... (more)

The far eastern end of the Deseret Ry in Colorado is further from my home in Utah than the western end near the Bonanza Power Plant. Consequently, I don’t get to see or photograph it as often. L... (more)

The morning coal train on the Deseret Ry. ran a little earlier than usual today. The result of it’s early departure from the plant allowed a shot of its E60 in a full nose lit position. So here ... (more)

The morning coal train on the Deseret Ry. ran a little earlier than usual today. This resulted in an empty departure that allowed a shot of its E60 in a full nose lit position. So here it is less ... (more)

The Deseret Ry has but one siding, the aptly named Midway Siding, located about halfway between the Deserado Mine and the Bonanza Power Plant. Oddly enough, it is not electrified. In over 25 years... (more)

E60 #DPR-1 with a westbound loaded coal train on the Deseret Ry. is about a mile from the Utah/Colorado state line in this shot taken at Mormon Gap, Colorado. Mormon Gap is a narrow cleft in a hog... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 6000 hp electric #DPR-1 leads 2 more E60’s and a 44 car empty coal train through the colorful badlands of eastern Utah’s Coyote Basin. The colorful rocks exposed here are T... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 #DPR 1 is just leaving the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant in far eastern Utah on a perfect summer day. Those small mounds on both sides of the track are stabilized sa... (more)

It gets very cold on the uplands of eastern Utah. This early March shot shows a fair amount of snow still on the ground as the Deseret Ry's morning train pulls slowly out of the unloading loop at ... (more)

This shot is the very east end of the Deseret Ry in western Colorado at the coal loadout for the Deserado mine. Here, DPR-1 and two other E60’s are slowly pulling 44 empty coal gondolas through ... (more)

Deseret Ry’s #DPR-2 has the daily loaded coal train rolling easily downgrade about 4 miles from its final destination, the Bonanza Power Plant. The terrain here is composed of colorful Tertiary... (more)

DPR-1, a General Electric E60 built in 1983, is accelerating up to track speed as it leaves the Bonanza Power Plant in eastern Utah. This train has just finished unloading 44 cars of western Color... (more)

Deseret Railway's E60C #DPR-2 rolls downgrade through the colorful eastern Utah badlands approaching the Bonanza Power Plant. The second and third units are also E60C's but their origin is Nationa... (more)

Coyote Basin in far eastern Utah is a large and completely unpopulated area with no paved roads. Only the Deseret Ry. runs out here. This is a 44 car loaded coal train about 10 miles from the Bona... (more)