This great looking set of 5 Utah Ry. 6 axle units in the traditional red & grey colors is just entering the Union Pacific Helper Yard. They will roll right through the yard and continue on east th... (more)

38500 Horsepower! Eleven big DC traction locomotives lift 13000 tons of Carbon County coal up the 2.4% grade of the Price River Canyon. 5 motors up front and 6 more manned helpers 2/3 dee... (more)

Utah Ry #5001 brings this loaded coal train downgrade and across the Spring Canyon trestle. Martin Yard is a couple of miles ahead where a 4 unit, mid train, helper set will be added.This train l... (more)

Early Evening shadows begin to close in on Price River Canyon bottom as a Utah Railway Coal train charges the 2.4% grade along Highway 6. There was once a center siding here at Nolan that allowed ... (more)

Utah Ry. #5004 leads 4 other 6 axle units up the 2.4% grade in Price River Canyon headed towards Soldier Summit. The train is just exiting the oft photographed horseshoe curve below Kyune. Thanks ... (more)

Utah Ry. is bringing this short, 20 car, coal train up the 2.4% grade at the top of Price River Canyon on the Provo Sub. The train loaded on the Savage Spur between Price and Wellington. Maybe thi... (more)

A westbound Utah Railway coal train at Colton, UT, waits for a signal to depart.

Out for a test drive. Utah Railway is trying out MK's 5000 hp Caterpillar power plants in the model called a MK5000C. After being tried out and rejected by UP, SP, and BCR. MPI/MK finally found a ... (more)

Trying out their future investments. Two of the MK5000C's with 5000 horse power caterpillar engines. Are on the head end of a Utah Railway coal train ,with a couple Utah SD40's trailing.

MK5000C MPEX 9902 and SP 503 meet D&RGW 5354 in the Price River canyon. The original intention for the 5000 horse powered MK locomotives was for the three demo unit to go to Union Pacific. With th... (more)

This Utah Ry. coal train is part way into its climb up Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. This location is just west of the crossovers at Lynn. Not seen are the 6 manned swing helpers about 2/3... (more)

For my job in oil and gas drilling, I needed to go visit a drilling rig which was drilling a gas well off of Consumers Road near Helper, Utah. Consumers Rd. goes right past the Wildcat coal loadou... (more)

After a 75 mile trip from my home to Helper my first stop was the Utah Railway's Martin Yard. I found one of their engineers just walking out of the yard office and stopped to talk to him. He told... (more)

KYLE westbound Goodland Limon KS turn led by recently acquired exUTAH RWY MK50C approaching Seibert on exRock Island Denver main

Lifting tonnage up and over the Wasatch Mountains takes a Herculean effort! Here 10500 horsepower, with another 21,000 horsepower cut in mid-train lift this westbound coal load up the 2.4% grade ... (more)