Heading East thru Provo River Canyon on the way back to Heber City, Utah

The Deseret Power Ry. has just finished unloading its 44 car trainload of coal at Utah’s Bonanza Power Plant. It is just getting up to speed heading east back to the loading and shop area in weste... (more)

UP 3071, an SD70ACe-T4 model, leads this export coal train, which was loaded on the North Fork branch south of Grand Junction, Colorado. This ex. D&RGW trackage parallels the majestic Book Cliffs ... (more)

A westbound manifest crests the Wasatch Range at, appropriately, Wahsatch, Utah. It's all downhill from here into Ogden. Note the center siding still utilizing jointed track and hand-thrown switch... (more)

DS-10 is found switching a industrial park near the Salt Lake City Airport.

FTRL lease power is found on a Utah Central train switching in Ogden.

On the west side of Ogden finds a Utah Central with BAP 1402 switching near the old Military base.

Early afternoon at the Utah Central shops finds a pair of GP15-1's.

I found this beauty while passing through Helper, Utah. It’s an ex. D&RGW Scale Test car. If you enlarge and zoom in you will learn that it weighs 80,000 pounds, has no air brakes, and must be han... (more)

Former Rawhide Short Line RAWX 1088 "Platte River Power Authority" has a new home at the Salt Lake Garfield & Western. Now lettered SSRX 1088. This unit is an ex Kennecott Copper custom ... (more)

On a brisk October morning in the upper reaches of Echo Canyon, an eastbound intermodal train bound for Chicago rolls under the old US Route 30 overpass at Emory, about to take the upper track whe... (more)

Utah Railway Alco RSD15 Alligator 403 rests in the yard on a nice afternoon. It will go out on a Helper set later that that day

A Union Pacific train comes into the yard at Ogden.

At the conclusion of the doubleheaded westbound run from Cheyenne to Ogden, the Big Boy and 844 were split at the south end of Union Pacific's Ogden Yard, to be staged at different locations for t... (more)

My very first encounter with the living, breathing, UP Big Boy, was this sloppy wet, chilly, and windy scene at Castle Rock, Utah, as the westbound Golden Spike Anniversary train appeared around t... (more)