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)

Southern Pacific's 'Dirt Train' local passes through American Fork with eight EMDs and 18 cars on New Year's Eve, 1994. The consist includes the SP 8652, DRGW 5409, DRGW 3137, DRGW 3101, DRGW 3085... (more)

Due to a fatal automobile accident involving Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp in West Jordan, the D&RGW sought ways to increase the train's visibility. SD9 #5310 was modified to include a oscillating Gy... (more)

A stable of Rio Grande tunnel motors await work out of Helper, Utah on March 14, 1999. The UP assigned as many as 18 SD40T-2s to work Helper terminal well into the late 1990s. The 5411, 5405, 5385... (more)

A Rio Grande 'Coal Liner' gondola has found new work hauling scrap for a recycling company. Five of these were built new by Thrall for the D&RGW in May 1969 to haul coal between Carbondale, Colora... (more)

It has been more than two decades since the last coal train crossed the now dilapidated Grassy Trail Creek bridge on Rio Grande's Sunnyside Branch in scenic Whitmore Canyon. Apparently someone dec... (more)

For my 1000th image accepted on Railpictures.net, I have uploaded a photo of a place I have held dear since I was a young kid. On a bright spring morning in 2006, I was on hand to catch the Rio Gr... (more)

Utah Railway's RUT312 local departs UP North Yard in Salt Lake City with eight cars for Midvale on April 18, 2013.

Soon after the 1983 UP-WP merger, Western Pacific locomotives were scattered throughout the UP system. WP 3019, a Boise rebuilt EMD GP35, works the morning switch job in the joint UP/Utah Railway ... (more)

On Soldier Summit, a dark and cloudy day can lead to a spectacular evening when the storm clouds break up. We were treated to an awesome sky as BNSF's Denver-Stockton manifest charged west approac... (more)

Thanks to some very cold weather conditions, a Utah Railway Wildcat, UT to Moapa, NV coal train has broken in two at milepost 634.25, near Lynn in Price Canyon. By the time the 101 car train had c... (more)

Of the hundreds trains I've photographed in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon in the past 4 decades, this one has to be one of the most unusual. An odd series of circumstances and good luck have brought ... (more)

Rio Grande Aspen Gold paint stands out in sharp contrast to a monochromatic early spring landscape in the lower horseshoe curve at Gilluly. The Rio Grande Zephyr never failed to impress its Utah f... (more)

A well dressed quartet of blue and gold Motive Power Industries SD40s pull a Utah Railway coal train into Provo Yard on July 9, 1991.

With new EMD and GE power on the point, Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City Z-train rolls through Henefer on July 6, 2016.