A lot going on in this scene. Salt Lake Garfield & Western's blue GP9's 8223 and 8201 are seen at the far westend of their yard and trackage. Also in the picture is a 44 tonner SSR 4501. Then ther... (more)

Led by Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5390, Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train rolls through the desert between Wash and Mounds, Utah, on April 5, 2005.

It's a winter scene as the eastbound Zephyr navigates the Price River Canyon. (Tom Ellis photo).

A colorful lashup leads the westbound BNSF Denver to Provo as it leaves Green River.

A short Utah coal train heads east at Price, UT for the Savage coal load out.

A GE tier 4, thunders around the big sweeping curve at Lakepoint, Utah. In the background is the Great Salt Lake, with two of it's islands. Stansbury and Antelope Island.

UP 4014 and UP 844 double-head the UP steam special that departed Ogden, UT earlier that day, seen here passing underneath the towering red rock formations in Echo Canyon on its way back to Cheyen... (more)

A westbound UP stack train passes by the Castle Rock rest area in northeastern Utah, on its way towards Echo and Ogden.

A pair of grimy Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors help Amtrak’s California Zephyr with some extra power over Soldier Summit on July 7, 1988. The train is now heading downgrade through the curves ... (more)

The INPOA heads off on it's journey to Oakland. It will soon take the switch onto the Shafter Subdivision.

The Potash Local is nearing the Southern end of its journey soon it will turn around and head up to Seven Mile before outlawing.

By mid-2002, there were still 47 former Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2s running on the Union Pacific system, but only seven were not patched or painted yellow. At this time, a quartet called Helper, Utah,... (more)

With the down grade, this eastbound moves swiftly across the Erda Valley.

With the Salt Lake City skyline for a back drop. The Utah Railway RUT312 moves through an empty Salt Lake City North Yard. The Utah crew has a pigeon keeping them company outside there cab window.... (more)

Waiting for duty, a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors bask in the summer sun in the engine facility at Helper, Utah, on August 7, 1996.