This is southern Wyoming: not a tree in sight and not a single house, road, car or person. Nothing but Wyoming and the Union Pacific Railroad. The MNPHK is at Sinclair heading for Rawlins and a cr... (more)

View is looking north from the throat of the South Yard at BNSF’s Alliance, Nebraska terminal. Trains are staged in this yard to leave in 3 directions of the compass. Loads leave here to go eas... (more)

Deseret Ry. empty coal train leaving the power plant after unloading. The train will travel 35 miles east to the Deserado Mine in Colorado for another load of coal.

The weatherman said this day was supposed to be partly cloudy, so I took off on the roughly 80 mile drive over to the Deseret Power Ry’s terminal in far western Colorado to see if I could get so... (more)

Due to the drastic reduction in the number of coal trains in the Helper, Utah area the Utah Ry. has changed its motive power policy. From now on all Utah Ry. coal trains will use Union Pacific hea... (more)

After the Deseret Power Ry finished painting 3 of their 4 E60’s they did not paint their 4th operational E60 due to costs. For a few weeks they ran the 3 newly painted units as a set. Then reduc... (more)

This image looks like yet another shot of a D&RGW SD40T-2 in the Helper, Utah yard. But, for this dyed in the wool Rio Grande fan it was a good bye of sorts. RP poster James Belmont and I had hear... (more)

Three of Union Pacific’s dwindling fleet of ex SP AC4400’s lead the MNYRO out of the Horse Creek horseshoe curve on the ascent to Utah’s Soldier Summit. Location is just below Kyune on UPâ€... (more)

After unloading its train of coal at Richmond, CA, the UP 7001 is seen here rounding Arnold's Loop while dropping down Silver Zone Pass on the UP Shafter Sub. It is on its way to the West Elk Mine... (more)

Trains are pretty scarce between Grand Jct. and Helper on Union Pacific's Green River Sub. these days. Of the few seen every day 2 are Amtrak's westbound and eastbound California Zephyrs, #'s 5 & ... (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)

The Deseret Power Ry in eastern Utah and western Colorado is in the middle of a project to repaint their entire fleet of 4 active E60C’s. So far they have completed two of them; DPR #1 and DPR ... (more)

This Utah Ry. loaded coal train has finally reached Soldier Summit. It’s all downhill from here for 50 miles to Provo, Utah where the train will be interchanged to Union Pacific for the final la... (more)

Yes, coal is still being mined and shipped in eastern Utah, just not as much as in the past. I followed this Utah Ry. empty train downgrade from Castlegate to Price, Utah trying to get ahead of it... (more)

The year is 1984 and the Western Pacific disappeared into the Union Pacific a year ago. WP Geeps began showing up on locals around the Los Angeles area where I was on a short term assignment in Lo... (more)