A pleasant surprise trails Rio Grande train No. 134 heading east along the Book Cliffs near Thompson.
Not a lot runs on the old DRGW mainline in the Utah Desert these days. A handful of manifests, maybe a coal train or two and the California Zephyr is about it in any given 24 hour period. That sai... (more)
Cresting Thompson Hill Rio Grande SD45 No. 5319 leads three more EMDs as the fast eastbound piggyback train crests Thompson Hill, just east of Thompson, Utah, in July 1984.
UP’s Potash local climbs toward Thompson, Utah, on March 4, 2012. Two General Electric AC4400CTEs (AC4400CW-CTE) guide the short train through the barren landscape rimmed with a Bookcliff backgr... (more)
Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr catches some late evening light climbing Thompson Hill east of Thompson, Utah, on July 7, 1988. The old narrow gauge right-of way used when the route was fir... (more)
Cresting Thompson Hill Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr glides around the big curved fill east of Thompson, Utah, on the morning of March 4, 2012.
Westbound coal on the former Denver, Rio Grande and Western.
Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr traverses the curves in the almost martian looking landscape of Eastern Utah.
UP broke up the pool of SD40T-2's based in Helper, UT, early in 2001, allowing some of the units to break free from the helper fleet. Several ended up leading trains on the old Rio Grande. Like ... (more)
The silence of the Green River Desert is briefly interrupted by the passage of SP's hot Roper-Denver trailer train. Looks are deceiving though, as the trailers are at the rear of the train, behind... (more)
An SP freight rolls west over the former Rio Grande at Thompson, Utah.
Eastbound at Thompson
With their whole train visible out on the desert floor, 2 SP Tunnel Motors work west on the D&RGW main.
Locomotive performing fantrip for NRHS convention.