The unloading process at Bonanza is finished and 3 of Deseret Power Railway’s E-60 electrics are pulling its empty train around the loop track to head back to the Deserado Mine loader in Colorad... (more)
It's 4:30 PM and Deseret Power Ry's afternoon train has just left the loadout. The morning crew had loaded the afternoon train on their return from taking the AM train to Bonanza and back. The swi... (more)
This slightly overpowered Deseret Power Ry. work train is dumping ballast right at the Colorado/Utah state line. The topography between Mormon Gap, Colorado and Coyote Basin, Utah is this elevat... (more)
The Deseret Power Ry. has just finished unloading its 44 car trainload of coal at Utah’s Bonanza Power Plant. It is just getting up to speed heading east back to the loading and shop area in wes... (more)
Deseret Power Ry's afternoon loaded coal train has just exited Mormon Gap Colorado. Actually most of the train is still in this narrow cleft in Raven Ridge. Upon exiting the Gap, the rails turn ha... (more)
An Bob Graham original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
Note the consist of de-motored Metroliner coaches, which still collect power from the catenary for HEP functions. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specifi... (more)
Early February means cold in eastern Utah and 2011 was no exception. It was around 5 degrees below zero when I took this shot. This is the morning, loaded train headed for the Bonanza Power Plant.
Note the AEM7-like Phase III paint and lettering on a 900-series E60CP. Also note the Brecknell-Willis high-speed pantograph that AEM7s were equipped with. A J. C. Smith original Kodachrome slid... (more)
If you want to get away, the Deseret Railway is the place for you! The Deseret exists solely to transport coal from the Deserado Coal Mine to the Bonanza Power Plant, located about 35 miles apart.... (more)
Snow is falling hard at New Haven, CT, as the carknockers go to work to connect E60CP 974 to a Boston-Washington train that had just arrived behind an F40PH. The engine change at New Haven was acc... (more)
Amtrak 603 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
A Boston-Washington corridor train behind a burly E60CH swings through a curve at Milford, CT, on a busy Thanksgiving weekend.
A John C. Benson original Kodachrome slide from my collection.