DPR #1 leads an empty coal train out of the Deseret Power plant near Bonanza, Utah. The train is approaching MP 34. The plant’s coal handling equipment is visible in the background. This locatio... (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)

The Deseret Ry's morning coal loads have finished unloading at the Bonanza Power Plant and are snaking their way through the S curve at MP32. The train is on its way back to the Deserado Mine in C... (more)

Deseret Ry's morning loaded coal train has finished unloading at the power plant and is now on the way back to the Deserado Mine. The coal train has been running 4 days each week lately. Today the... (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.

Deseret Ry. empty coal train leaving the power plant after unloading. The train will travel 35 miles east to the Deserado Mine in Colorado for another load of coal.

Deseret Ry. (formerly Deseret Western Ry.) DPR-1 leads a coal train back to the Deserado Mine for another load of coal. The Power Plant is in Utah and the mine is in Colorado. This is typical wint... (more)

After passing through the Bonanza, Utah power plant dumper (in background), the DPR-1 leads the empties back east to the Deserado Mine in Colorado.

Southbound morning train to Bonanza Power Plant

Intermountain Rigging and HeavyHaul of Salt Lake City, UT, hauled three ex-NdeM E60C's from UP's rail at Craig, CO, to Deseret Power near Dinsaur, CO. Truck climbs hill with two trucks pushing!

This is the parts locomotive for the Deseret Western. As you can see, it is still lettered form NdeM.

DWR is an electric coal hauling rail line in the northwest corner of Colorado. They have four E60C's, two are in NdeM Paint.