Even the ladies on the building are look down with wonderment of an 18 hour late Amtrak. I think they like the heritage unit also.

So Amtrak should be crossing the Great Salt Lake around 12:30 a.m. Saturday I was able to get a shot of Amtrak number 5 I never have. It's 6:20 p.m. and I was able to get the Zephyr at one of thos... (more)

I was able to catch Amtrak heritage unit 130 today, for the first time. The westbound Zephyr was 18 hours late. Allowing photo locations that generally are passed in the middle of the night.

CNW 8677 and 8729 are sandwiching 8549 the Wyoming Centennial unit, a C40-8. A friendly engineer hangs out the cab, anxious to get his picture take. As his train hauls another load of coal out of ... (more)

Soldier Summit isn't exactly very hospitable this afternoon. But the sun has broke through the snow flurries, at just the right time. As the Utah brings an empty coal train up the mountain. With t... (more)

Burlington Northern C30-7 5138 sports it's red number boards. I believe the red number boards designated this locomotive had slave or remote ability to control unmanned helpers. The forerunners to... (more)

Santa Fe 5077 heads across the Topock bridge over the Colorado River. This is the Arizona, California border.

The smog from the basin has set in. As a Santa Fe train works it way up the mountain, toward Tehachapi.

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.

One of those locomotives I hardly new existed until it happen to block my path on Saturday. This SW1200 has belonged to Big West Oil of North Salt Lake City since 2014. It spends most of it's time... (more)

A couple Utah Railway 2003 and 2008 GP38-3's are found with a load of oil can's from the refinery's of Northern Salt Lake City. The track are the former Rio Grande main that once went between Salt... (more)

Union Pacific 3985 puts on a show, as she lays down the smoke.

Wyoming and Colorado's FP7's as they looked when the first started running on the branch. Eventually the paint job was enhance a bit with black stripes, down the sides. The Mountain Diesel was cha... (more)

Santa Fe didn't lack for variety in their motive power. On this local they have 2872 a GP35r, 3674 a GP39-2, 3044 a GP20, and lastly a B23-7 or B36-7.

A Burlington Northern coal train with SD40-2's and C30-7's rolls past a hillside of yellow flowers.