BNSF's daily westbound trackage rights train the QDVPVJ-14 has reached the top of the steep climb up Price River Canyon and is only about 5 or 6 miles from Soldier Summit.

Nevada Northern’s beautiful ten wheeler #40 along with it’s 2 car passenger train sits in the East Ely yard next to the freight house. #40 was built by Baldwin in 1912 and has been on the line... (more)

Deseret Power’s empty train is tiptoeing at 5 mph here over a newly replaced rail under the watchful eyes of a couple of the MOW crew who are behind the train and down the embankment out of sigh... (more)

The clouds that had kept this day dark and gloomy started to break up and dissipate just long enough to illuminate the three times a week Provo, Utah to Stockton, CA BNSF manifest on the UP’s Sh... (more)

I first caught sight of this eastbound BNSF train as I pulled off I80 at the Lakeside, Utah exit. But by the time I got my camera out and turned on it had passed by me. I quickly backtracked east ... (more)

UP 2380 along with 3 other SD60M’s is moving slowly westward through the Helper yard to reposition itself for the next assignment, likely on the “Dirt Train” local. After posting this image ... (more)

This is the shortest coal train I have ever seen on Soldier Summit; 20 cars loaded at the Savage coal loadout near Wellington, Utah. After I posted this shot on a railfan site in 2010 I learned th... (more)

UP5465 is passing Cliffside siding on the lower of the two trackage levels on Nevada’s Silver Zone Pass in the Toano Range. Arnolds Loop is around a mile ahead. Directly above the head end power... (more)

After shooting this Union Pacific Dirt Train at Wellington, Utah, I raced ahead of it to Mounds, then up the Sunnyside Sub, forded Grassy Trail Creek and finally to the lower end of East Carbon De... (more)

I managed to catch this BNSF eastbound as it passed through a shaft of sunlight deep in the lower Price River Canyon. The crew is looking directly at the vertical wall of sandstone that is Castleg... (more)

D&RGW #5371 has picked up it’s loads of contaminated waste at the set-out track at Wellington, Utah and is now running east on the ex. Rio Grande main across the shale flats towards the junction... (more)

Today’s Dirt Train (Local 45) has finished it’s work at the East Carbon Development’s landfill and is headed downgrade toward a connection with the Green River sub at Mounds, Utah. The snow ... (more)

This Utah Ry. empty coal train is pictured at Kyune on the eastern side of Soldier Summit. It is returning a train of empty IPPX hoppers to either the Savage or Wildcat loadouts. The Utah Ry. hand... (more)

On an absolutely gorgeous Spring morning in downtown Salt Lake City this TRAX Red Line light rail set is slowing for its stop at the Courthouse station. The location is on Main Street opposite th... (more)

Utah Ry. loads another trainload of coal for the Intermountain Power Project plant near Delta, Utah in this late winter shot. That square white object with a window just to the right of the loadin... (more)