A 10,000 ton Salt Lake City to Denver manifest snakes through the switches at Castilla onto main 2 while UP's Helper based swing helper awaits it's turn to cut in and shove on this heavy drag frei... (more)

KCS 4702 leads BNSF Railway's Denver-Provo manifest along a multitude of Union Pacific maintenance of way machines tucked away on the rickety old set out track at Detour, Utah.

An almost surreal moment in mountain railroading is captured as a Union Pacific freight climbs out of the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon while a BNSF manifest stirs up a cloud of dust descendi... (more)

Smoke (and dust) gets in your eyes! The photographer took advantage of some airborne dust via newly applied ballast to capture this shadowy evening view of a BNSF manifest entering the Red Narrows... (more)

A Union Pacific Maintenance of Way gang replaces ties, ballast, tie plates and rail along the former D&RGW in Spanish Fork Canyon.

Union Pacific's Trona, CA to Skyline, UT coal empty winds it's way east through the scenic Red Narrows area of Spanish Fork Canyon.

A Kansas City Southern Railway ES44AC leads BNSF Railway's Denver - Provo trackage rights manifest along the former D&RGW approaching Castilla, Utah.

Of the hundreds trains I've photographed in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon in the past 4 decades, this one has to be one of the most unusual. An odd series of circumstances and good luck have brought ... (more)

A Union Pacific work train waits patiently for an eastbound Trona, CA to Skyline, UT coal empty to cross over from Main #1 to Main #2 at Castilla, Utah. A pair of DPU's are visible at the tail end... (more)

Union Pacific's WMUKYZ ballast train roars east through fresh snow along a wind power generating station at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon.

An impressive plume of exhaust trails UP's Murdock to Kyune ballast train at the Thistle Tunnels in Spanish Fork Canyon. The 9504 ton train has 72 loads and a three unit manned helper pushing on t... (more)

A 9504 ton Herzog ballast train hits the crossover switches at CP RG677, Rio in Spanish Fork Canyon. This 72 car train was loaded on the Lynndyl Subdivision at Murdock and will tie down in the for... (more)

Union Pacific Maintenance of Way folks have parked some track repair equipment on the bad order set out track off main #2 at Narrows. Approaching from the west is a Herzog ballast train with 72 lo... (more)

A Utah Railway coal empty charges east at track speed through Rio on Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision. Today's train is lead by G&W painted MK50-3 #5005, the only orange unit (for now, anyway) in... (more)

On a spectacular late winter morning, Amtrak's California Zephyr curves through the Red Narrows area of Spanish Fork Canyon. UP Dispatcher 78 has lined train #6 east up main 1 to overtake a slower... (more)