A new generation of power leads Southern Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City manifest at Riverton, Utah. SP 225 is a GE AC4400CW, blt. June 1995 while the SP 502 is an MK5000C, blt. August 1994. Th... (more)

Leaving the Salt Lake Valley and the Wasatch Mountains behind, Union Pacific's Wimmer Engineering Special travels east through a location Rio Grande PR folks utilized to promote it's new streamlin... (more)

Union Pacific's MRODV meets a Wattis Plateau coal train at Utah Railway Junction on Oct. 10, 1998.

A repositioning train of spine cars loaded with container chassis departs Salt Lake City for Los Angeles on Oct. 9, 2014.

What's that funny looking car at the end of the train? Union Pacific's SLC-Provo turn glides north along the D&RGW with loads of coil and plate steel from Geneva Works. I like how the crew customi... (more)

On President's Day 1994, SP's Midvale Tramp crosses the Bangerter Highway under construction in West Jordan. This phase of the new highway opened for traffic on Dec. 16, 1994.

Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3129, GP40s No. 3147, 3148, 3090, and SD40T-2 No. 5347 pull a second section of train No. 100 east up the Mapleton Bench on Aug. 29, 1987.

Engineer Bob Pace keeps an eye out for brakeman Fred Demaskie's hand signals working the afternoon switcher at Provo Yard. Note the mill gondola loaded with coil steel from nearby Geneva Works. Ca... (more)

Rio Grande's Intermountain Power to Valley Camp coal train (with UP pool power) challenges Amtrak's California Zephyr to a race through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon on July 29, 1990. Bot... (more)

So, what railroad company owns this property? Well, you can dream all you want . . . the Denver & Rio Grande Western is gone, and is never coming back. Photographed at 7447 ft. Soldier Summit from... (more)

All dressed up in the doomed 'SPSF' livery, SP SD45R No. 7562 awaits departure for Ogden at Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake.

Rio Grande GP40 No. 3085 leads a 105 car ROGJM over the Price River and through Castle Gate on April 2, 1994. This photograph happens to be my 6000th contribution to the Railpictures.net database ... (more)

A pair of EMD SD90MAC-H units and a Southern Pacific SD40M-2 pull a westbound intermodal train through Utah's Tooele Valley on July 8, 2000. UP 8555 and 8553 were assembled by Super Steel Schenect... (more)

With the stunning Book Cliffs as a backdrop, the crew of UP's LJP45 'dirt train' have begun their day. The first assignment is to retrieve a flat car of containers parked in the lower yard at Help... (more)

What could be more 'Union Pacific' than a classic streamlined passenger train on the Overland Route? An ILACB-22 with 14 cars pulls through Weber Canyon at Devil's Gate on August 23, 1993.