UP 3297 west has just crossed the Green River bridge at Green River, Wyoming and is beginning it’s climb up Peru Hill. This is the Montpelier Local and it will head west to the small town of Gra... (more)

Deseret Power Ry's morning train has finished unloading at the Bonanza Power Plant and is now accelerating up to track speed. The coal loadout is 35 miles ahead in western Colorado. This wide angl... (more)

UP 1983, the Western Pacific Heritage Unit, brings this Engineering Special flying through the small Utah town of Wellington. The weather in eastern Utah was dark and stormy this day, but this "su... (more)

Union Pacific’s Dirt Train Local has already dropped its inbound loads at the East Carbon Development’s hazardous waste landfill. It is now backing up the steep west end of the small yard here... (more)

Deseret Power’s morning, loaded, train ran around 4 hours early this morning so as to open a window for the maintenance crew to replace a rail at around MP 1.5. The now empty returning morning t... (more)

Seen here is westbound Union Pacific train just off of the Rambo Fill segment of the Great Salt Lake Causeway in western Utah passing in front of Strongs Knob. It is the UP 5229 west with the ZSKD... (more)

Amtrak #5 is pictured here climbing the 1% grade of Cedar Hill in eastern Utah. Location is Union Pacific’s Green River sub between Green River and Helper, Utah. Today’s train was on time to t... (more)

Trains are few and far between on Union Pacific’s Limon Sub in eastern Colorado. Kind of reminds me of the Shafter Sub in western Utah. I spent several hours here without seeing a train and then... (more)

UP 2380 is starting up from a stop after waiting while the Conductor removed the derail at the west end of the yard at East Carbon Development Co’s hazardous waste disposal facility. The locatio... (more)

Crude oil loading was still in its early stage in Utah when I took this shot. The location is Gilluly, on the west side of Soldier Summit. This is an easy spot to access as it is right next to US ... (more)

This great looking set of 5 Utah Ry. 6 axle units in the traditional red & grey colors is just entering the Union Pacific Helper Yard. They will roll right through the yard and continue on east th... (more)

Rio Grande coal train at the very high point of Soldier Summit. This train loaded on the Pleasant Valley branch; destination not known. Scanned from a color print.

It’s 2 days before Christmas and Soldier Summit, Utah, elevation 7500’, is in the clouds. This Utah Ry. empty coal train is about 100’ from reaching the summit itself. After that it is 22 mi... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 6000 hp electric #DPR-1 leads 2 more E60’s and a 44 car empty coal train through the colorful badlands of eastern Utah’s Coyote Basin. The colorful rocks exposed here are T... (more)

The crazy things railfans do to get a picture. I left my house at 4:30AM this morning and drove about 100 miles over a 9100’ pass to get to the town of Wellington, Utah just so I could take this... (more)