After switching Mounds, Utah, at sunrise, the “dirt train” heads toward East Carbon past low morning light and “John Ford movie-like” desert buttes. Leading the train are three Rio Grande ... (more)
Union Pacific’s dirt train heads west out of Mounds, Utah, over a small bridge on the Green River Subdivision. Besides EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5390 on the point, UP SD40-2 Nos. 3736 a... (more)
A fish-eye view out the cab window of SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5371 near Mounds, Utah, while westbound with the dirt train over the Sunnyside Branch on October 25, 2007. This was last “real” R... (more)
After a large gang of Union Pacific maintenance-of-way workers replaced the frog at the west switch of Mounds, Utah, on the morning of May 11, 2006, a welder finishes up one of the joints with a g... (more)
Sunrise through a Tunnel Motor A brilliant sunrise filters through the lower intake grills of two Rio Grande SD40T-2s at Mounds, Utah, on the morning of October 8, 2004.