Riders browse the dinner menu in the Rio Grande Zephyr's Silver Banquet dining car on April 14, 1979.

A Utah Railway export coal train climbs west through Castle Gate approaching the twin Price River girder bridges at Lynn on Oct. 12, 1996.

Utah Railway 5002 leads a colorful consist thru Price River Canyon. The train uses 10 DC locomotives totaling 34500 horsepower to lift this monster over the Wasatch Plateau.

Just after meeting Utah Railway helpers rolling eastward, Union Pacific manifest freight MNYPV is climbing the grade up Price River Canyon just east of Castle Gate, Utah, on October 23, 2007. A pa... (more)

A heavy coal train is slowly being dragged up the Price River Canyon by ten (5x5x0) Utah Railway Locomotives. The sound bouncing off the canyon walls was quite impressive.

With a quartet of EMD GP60s for power, SP's hot Oakland to Denver Forwarder snakes through Price Canyon on Sept. 4, 1993.

SP's hot DVOAF climbs west through Castle Gate on Aug. 21, 1992.

A DRGW SD50 along with a Kodachrome SD45 pull a garbage train through Castle Gate.

SP's well powered DVOAF makes easy work of climbing the 2.3% grade through Price Canyon on Aug. 21, 1992. The 43 car train has seven loads of Coors Beer and mix of piggyback trailers and container... (more)

Rio Grande lumber drag 126 rolls downgrade through Castle Gate the afternoon of June 25, 1988. The coal conveyor in the background leads to Utah Power & Light's Carbon Power Plant (now owned by Pa... (more)

Eastbound IPP empties catch a pocket of the rising sun, rolling towards Utah Railway Junction and eventually Wildcat Mine.

Rio Grande and Southern Pacific power team up to drag D&RGW's daily 151 train from Grand Junction through Price Canyon approaching Castle Gate.

The early years of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe merger brought together wildly colorful power combos. Here an SD45-2 and two SD40-2s lead 108 coil steel empties through Castle Gate on Oct. 6... (more)

Merger mania in Utah's Price Canyon: A trio of Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a stopped IPP train at Utah Railway Junction while a Union Pacific officer's special rolls by on the main, headed eas... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr rambles east with a new ACS64 (Amtrak Cities Sprinter) along for the ride on the former D&RGW at Castle Gate. Manufactured by Siemens in Sacramento, Amtrak has placed an... (more)