Snaking along the Price River, Rio Grande's daily Grand Junction to Roper mixed freight sinks its teeth into the 2.4% at Kyune. Relief is less than mile away when the gradient drops to 1%, relativ... (more)
DRGW 3116,5317,3098,3107 work upgrade toward Soldier Summit with coal loads. The trailing SD45 had overheated and shut down and this job was at a crawl.
Amtrak #6 bathes in the morning light at Kyune with one of the 40th anniversary engines on the point.
DRGW 3116,5317,3098,3107 team up to move a westbound coal train up Price River Canyon on the afternoon of June 8, 1990.
A BNSF trackage rights train cruises through the fresh snow at Kyune, UT on Soldier Summit.
Rio Grande GP40-2 3117 and 6 sisters squeal through the S-curve at Kyune as they climb the grade to Soldier Summit. Scanned from an original Kodachrome.
A loaded Utah Railway coal trains ascends the steep grade at Kyune.
The sun has poked through the clouds, and the rumbles of thunder to the east are droned out by the sound of MK5000C's and Aussie SD50's, which are on their knees, begging for the summit to come qu... (more)
Four of Utah's finest motors (two MK's bookending two Aussie SD50's) drag a heavy Utah coal train through the depths of the Price River Canyon.
Utah Railway coal loads start the run up Soldier Summit on a cold February day.
Crew change.
D&RGW 3083,3112,3095 are running fast with westbound UPS TOFC traffic and will soon be passing a coal train that went by minutes ago on the other main.
D&RGW 5359,5411,5502 lugging coal westbound on the Soldier Summit grade.
A GEVO and a SD75M assist a Westbound manifest over Soldier Summit under threatening Summer skies.