Rio Grande local #666 exits the westward main track while ducking under US Highway 6 with a tank car of nitric acid for Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork, Utah. D&RGW's Gomex spur was constructed ... (more)

After dropping off three loads of grain at the Elberta elevator, Rio Grande train #669 returns to Provo Yard through the vast expanse of Utah's rural Goshen Valley.

Interior view of Rio Grande's Budd dome observation car 'Silver Sky' cresting Soldier Summit on Sept. 4, 1976.

The Spirit of Washington dinner train creeps across the fabulous 102 ft. high, 975 ft. long Wilburton Trestle (blt. 1891) in Bellevue, Washington. The Washington Central operated this luxury dinne... (more)

A relic from the Denver & Rio Grande Western is spotted at the top end of UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The X-450 was built new for the D&RGW by Southwark-Baldwin in February 1945. The unique l... (more)

Rio Grande GP30s No. 3003 and 3001 pull a 14 car Provo Local through the Utah County town of Lehi on January 23, 1994.

With permission from the tower to depart, the Roper to Denver manifest freight is on the move with both freshly repainted/renumbered and factory painted Chicago & North Western C40-8s in the lead.... (more)

Union Pacific's 'Potash Turn' kicks up a healthy cloud of dust from newly laid ballast on the Cane Creek Subdivision. Don't be fooled by the red dirt ballast, this trackage is undergoing an major ... (more)

A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends UP's Evanston Subdivision at Henefer, Utah. On the point, the largest operating diesel locomotive in the world, an EMD... (more)

On January 4th, 1996, Utah celebrated 100 years of statehood. Both Union Pacific and Southern Pacific ran passenger specials on January 3rd to mark the occasion. It must have been a big day for th... (more)

Southern Pacific SDP45 3204 finds itself in Utah at Union Pacific's North Yard shops in Salt Lake City. The boiler equipped passenger/commuter hauler was built for the SP by EMD in May 1967. By th... (more)

Where else but Utah Railway could one find a power combo such as this? MK50-3 #5003 joins a pair of Australian built SD50S units just outside Utah Railway's vintage shop building at Martin. The fo... (more)

A pair of Denver & Rio Grande Western SD50s lead Southern Pacific's DVROM through serpentine curvature two miles west of Detour, Utah. While SP is running the show at this point, things appear to ... (more)

All dressed up in flashy SPSF merger colors, SP SD45R 7562 prepares to depart Rio Grande's Roper Yard for Ogden and points west. By 1985, the Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger was opposed by the Ju... (more)

How could the UP do this to my Rio Grande? The former 5366 sits at Riverton with a new UP number and a fresh coat of Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray paint.