Rio Grande Utah Division Engineer Jim Ozment offers the photographer a gesture of strength and might as he prepares his high rail vehicle for inspection of the track through Spanish Fork Canyon. J... (more)

Union Pacific's North Platte, NE to West Colton, CA manifest departs Salt Lake City for it's 725 mile journey to southern California. In the train's consist today are four Fairbanks/MAN marine eng... (more)

A group of EMD SD9043MACs assigned to a coal train and a swing helper mingle at Helper Yard on Nov. 2, 2007.

Union Pacific's Valmy, NV to Skyline, UT coal empty has reached the end of track on UP's Pleasant Valley Subdivision not far from the historic coal mining community of Clear Creek, Utah. Soon the ... (more)

A sparkling clean Rio Grande SD40T-2 takes a break in the joint Union Pacific/Utah Railway Provo Yard on May 14, 1988. The 5378 was built new by EMD for the D&RGW in Jan. 1977. It would be one of ... (more)

Although the last train through Utah's Marysvale Canyon vanished by 1972, the scenic splendor and history of this area continued to draw fans of the D&RGW. Standing on top of the Eagle Rock Tunnel... (more)

By June of 1984, the Union Pacific rostered only one active EMD GP7. My dad and I received a call from a UP hogger that UP 121 was headed our way on a local freight from Salt Lake City. We arrived... (more)

On June 27, 1979, Rio Grande's Tintic Local is pictured less than a mile from the Burgin gold mine, navigating desolate sage brush and cedar trees through the foothills of the East Tintic Mountain... (more)

A Union Pacific general freight has topped 6061 ft. Boutler Summit and has begun the descent through Utah's Tintic Valley. Three SD40-2s and a single DD35B lead the train west along UP's historic ... (more)

An interesting array of railroad equipment meet at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland Oregon: an Alco RSD-5, painted as the Nickel Plate Road 324, a Vanderbilt steam locomotive tender, a ... (more)

Nov. 14, 1983 was a sad day for fans of Utah Railway's iconic fleet of Alco locomotives. Six RSD-4s, an RSD-5, an RSD-12, and three RSD-15s have crossed Soldier Summit for the last time, dead in t... (more)

Union Pacific's Rio Grande Heritage SD70ACe leads a Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT manifest on former D&RGW rails at American Fork, Utah. The rugged snow clad peak in the distance is 11,749 ft. ... (more)

A trio of GE C44-9Ws pull SP's Conrail to Geneva Steel coking coal train through Provo on April 30, 1995. In the upcoming months, hundreds of new GE AC4400CWs will supersede these DC traction unit... (more)

An EMD TR5 (TRansfer) 'cow and calf' set undergoes routine maintenance at Union Pacific's Pocatello, Idaho yard on July 28, 1980. The two units, connected semi permanently by a draw bar, were buil... (more)

Easily the weirdest train I've ever witnessed on the D&RGW is this one right here. Rio Grande's 649 local descends the Mapleton Bench near Spanish Fork with an Amtrak Lounge Cafe car, three Kennec... (more)