This Union Pacific passenger special came through eastern Utah very early this morning. The sun had not yet reached the bottom of the Price River Canyon when it swung out of the big horseshoe curv... (more)

The vast openness of Coyote Basin, Utah is broken by the rumble of this approaching Deseret Ry. 44 car loaded coal train. The train is headed for the Bonanza Power Plant to unload.

The well known "Dirt Train Local" has spotted its inbound loads out of sight in the background and is now putting together its outbound train of empties. The SD40N #1595 is seen here backing up th... (more)

I was hoping that this Utah Ry coal train would hurry up and get off the main line and onto the Castle Valley Spur before that nasty looking approaching storm reached me. I had followed this train... (more)

It's a cold late winter morning in downtown Salt Lake City. The sun has not even risen above the peaks of the Wasatch Range to the east. The D&RGW train #18 is ready to leave the depot on it's day... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

This Utah Ry. MK5000C is one of only a small handful of this unique model running anywhere. As far as I know all of the operational ones were in use on the Utah Ry. when I took this shot. I saw th... (more)

UP 7141 and an ex. Southern Pacific AC unit are lugging this westbound grain train around Arnold’s Loop on the Union Pacific's Shafter Sub in eastern Nevada. Two more AC units in DPU mode are p... (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)

This shot, which looks just like some of my other Deseret Ry shots is really quite different. Notice 4 units. In all my years of watching this remote road this is the first 4 unit power set I have... (more)

Fourteen years after the UP/SP merger what’s the chance of seeing a lash up like this? This is UP’s daily westbound manifest train on the ex D&RGW, the MNYRO. The two trailing SD60’s are Dir... (more)

Utah Ry #5005, an MK5000C model, and 4 other URy units lead a loaded coal train up Utah’s Price River Canyon. The location is the horseshoe curve just below Kyune. Out of sight and around the co... (more)

The very last unpatched and unrenumbered DRGW unit on the Union Pacific roster, DRGW 5371, is a legitimate last survivor as it rolls downgrade past Castlegate near the bottom of Price River Canyon... (more)

DRGW 5515 and 3 other SD50's have just begun loading at the Pittsburgh & Midway mine near Oak Creek, Colorado. This mine is now inactive and everything in this photo, except the rails, has been re... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s E60 electric unit #DPR1 leads the afternoon loaded train westbound at the very summit of Holum Pass. This is the high point of this isolated railroad. The units are just... (more)