View looking forward from the back platform of ARR business car 2000, the "Aurora." On this day the ARR was running a special charter for Japanese Airlines transporting 250 happy Japanese visitor... (more)

Five retired cabooses rest silently on the Old Park Spur with their markings painted over. This little spur track sits directly south of the ARR's corporate headquarters building which is just ou... (more)

The deadline....Four retired Budd RDCs rest quietly south of five retired cabooses. Times are changing on the ARR, and while all of these were in active service last summer they now await an unce... (more)

Springtime in Alaska! Three SD70MACs shove north up the south end of the Anchorage yard lead and around the loop toward the port to deliver their train load of refined petroleum products to the F... (more)

View looking forward from the back platform of ARR business car 2000, the "Aurora." On this day the ARR was running a special charter for Japanese Airlines transporting 250 happy Japanese visitor... (more)

View looking forward from the back platform of ARR business car 2000, the "Aurora." On this day the ARR was running a special charter for Japanese Airlines transporting 250 happy Japanese visitor... (more)

A northbound Front Runner races north past the hand throw crossovers at Pioneer that allow the nightly YSC51 local out of North Yard to crossover from the UP to access some industries located off ... (more)

Northbound Front Runner train from Salt Lake City is just moments from the end of its run as it has dropped down off the Bridge Jct. flyover and is drifting past the static displays at the Ogden U... (more)

The "Marblehead Local" based out of Burmester, UT has arrived at Delle on the former WP mainline. After pulling west the conductor alighted and lined the west switch of the wye. Here the local c... (more)

There is no doubting the heritage of this route as the modern GE drops down Low Hill about 55 miles from the end of its Oakland to Salt Lake City journey. The bridge passes over a little used roa... (more)

This Oakland to SLC hot shot is curling around the curve at the east end of Delle siding on the former Western Pacific mainline. The snow covered and forested Cedar Mountains rise in the distance... (more)

A pair of Savage units rest quietly in the jam packed Midvale Yard as a snow squally blankets the area providing a brief ground cover that will very shortly melt off. This is ex Rio Grande countr... (more)

A classic "snoot" leads the eastbound LUE50 back from Wendover to Roper Yard as it approaches the west end of Garfield Yard at MP768.2 on UP's Lynndyl Sub. The Massive Kennecott Copper Co. Smelte... (more)

Two high cab GP39-2s (792 & 799) built in 1978 for use in Kennecott's Bingham Canyon open pit mine still serve on the rails of their original owner. Now lettered for Tangent Rail Services which pr... (more)

The 1909 vintage Alco looks right at home hauling a short string of ancient ore cars in the East Ely yard. Behind the train is the sheet metal RIP building built during the 1940s and the much mor... (more)