A westbound Santa Fe piggyback train does its very best to outrun a nasty storm system closing in on the Coconino National Forest near Cosnino, Arizona. The ATSF 7484 is a rare B36-7, one of only ... (more)

Leap Year Day 2008 finds Rio Grande 5371 and company charging east through the desolate but scenic Green River Desert near Mounds.

As the sun sets on the Wasatch Mountains, Utah Railway's Provo based RUT611 local departs Salt Lake City for Ogden.

A quad of EMD GP60s lead Southern Pacific's OADVF (Oakland, CA - Denver, CO, Forwarder) east through Utah Railway Junction in Price Canyon. The D&RGW 3154-3156 (delivered in May 1990) were the las... (more)

Rio Grande's 766 coal empty departs Springville while thunder storms brew over the nearby Wasatch Mountains. July 24, 1989

On my 1992 trip to Colorado, the last thing I expected to see on the 'Creede Local' was one of SP's three D&RGW GP60's! Rio Grande 3155 lead the 16 car train and a D&RGW caboose through the San Lu... (more)

A Union Pacific officer's special from Silver Bow, Montana departs Dillon after changing crews at the UP depot on Oct. 11, 1993. After navigating the entire 255 mile Montana Subdivision, the 11 ca... (more)

Deer Creek Scenic Railroad's tradition of running doubleheaders on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends continued in the 1980s. Santa Maria Valley #100 (blt. by Baldwin in June 1926) and Southern P... (more)

Heber Valley Railroad's BLH/Whitcomb RS4TC No. 4028 and EMD NW2 No. 1011 make a switch move in the Heber City yard on Sept. 12, 2009.

Rio Grande's Provo Switcher interchanges hopper cars with the Union Pacific and Utah Railway at Provo, Utah. The melting snows along the Wasatch Mountains illustrate the onset of spring.

A Utah Railway Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train crosses Bullock Lane along Coal Track 2 south of in Provo on Feb. 21, 1987.

A Rio Grande SD45/SD40T-2 combo lead a coal empty across the Bear Creek trestle on SP's North Fork Branch.

MUNI car 1051 heads west along the Embarcadero at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. This PCC streetcar was built by St. Louis Car Co. in 1948, and is painted to honor the San Francisco Municip... (more)

An EMD TR5 'cow and calf' pulls Union Pacific's very first SD40 through Provo Yard on April 3, 1977. Note the damaged offset side hopper car parked in the nearby Utah Railway yard.

A Union Pacific Cheyenne, WY to Salt Lake City, UT passenger special descends the original 1860's track alignment of the Overland Route through Castle Rock, Utah. On the point, the largest operati... (more)