On Christmas Eve '93, a well matched quartet of Utah Railway SD40s lead coal empties east topping 7440 ft. Soldier Summit.

Three of the major players in the Utah rail scene meet on the former D&RGW at Soldier Summit.

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)

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)

Rio Grande and Utah Railway EMDs meet at Soldier Summit during Spring Break in 1994.

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

A trio of Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs lead a Utah Railway IPP to Coop coal empty east through a patch of dramatic storm light at Gilluly.

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

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision at Gilluly, Utah. As a condition of the UP-SP merger in 1996, the BNSF was granted trackage rights along the f... (more)

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest glides east down former Rio Grande rails at Kyune. The heavy train is entering the steeper 10 mile segment of 2.3% grade.

Having topped 7440 ft. Soldier Summit, a long heavy lumber drag (interchanged with the Southern Pacific at Ogden) prepares to activate dynamic braking for the 25 mile descent to Helper, Utah.

Bathed early morning light with good color saturation, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 climbs through Gilluly, Utah. 7440 ft. Soldier Summit is just 10 additional miles away by rail.

Two Alcos lift Utah RRs empty coal hoppers eastward up Rio Grandes Soldier Summit en route back to its own property near Helper. Just ahead are the horseshoe curves at Gilluly.