Western Pacific caboose 428 rests in fresh paint at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. It was part of a 35 car order built by International Car Company for the WP in 1955 and 1956. The 428 would be ... (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)

A single GE U23B leads a Western Pacific local at the north end of Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The train consist includes a pair of D&RGW ballast loads and a long cut of mill gondo... (more)

Southern Pacific's KCBAT emerges from the Kyune Gooseneck with a quartet of SP speed-lettered SD45T-2s (SP 9400, SP 9392, SP 9331, SP 9328). The 83 car train was a well tuned symphony of sights, s... (more)

During the Second World War, the U. S. government had Pullman construct a large fleet of troop sleepers. After the war, surplus cars were purchased by several railroads and converted to various us... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr hauls a new ACS64 (Amtrak Cities Sprinter) east along the former D&RGW near Wellington, Utah on June 7, 2013. Manufactured by Siemens in Sacramento, Amtrak has... (more)

Rio Grande's well maintained Bantam 'Rail Roader' crane D40 takes some time off at Riverton on Sept. 2, 1993.

A sad sight for Western Pacific fans is this extensive lineup of stored power in Salt Lake City after the merger with UP. Many of these units would be purchased and rebuilt while others were donat... (more)

Tooele Valley Railway's SW900 and a former Rio Grande caboose prepare to depart Anaconda's International Smelter along the Oquirrh Mountain foothills east of Tooele, Utah. Visible in this northern... (more)

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Burlington Northern Railroad! EMD F45s No. 6613, 6607, 6608, 6606 await work on the Utah Railway at Provo Yard on April 4, 1985.

By the early 1980s, the Rio Grande Zephyr was losing money. To reduce costs, the D&RGW was looking for ways to economize. By the summer of 1982, they tested alternative power arrangements to reduc... (more)

A two unit swing helper shoves on a coal train from the Horse Canyon and Sunnyside mines. Note the single track mainline in place between Colton and Soldier Summit. A second main track would be ad... (more)

On Seven Seven Seventy-Seven (July 7, 1977), Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 emerges from shadowy Spanish Fork Canyon into golden evening sunlight at Gomex. When on time, train #17 arrived at this loc... (more)

A Western Pacific GP35, wearing 'new image' livery, awaits an assignment on the WP main from Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The little EMD was built new for the WP in Nov. 1964.

Jim Ozment, Utah Division Engineer for the Rio Grande, prepares his Jeep highrail vehicle for highway travel near the old San Pete Valley Railroad depot in Moroni, Utah. July 4, 1975