A pair of EMD GP60s, assigned to UP's Geneva Turn and Tintic Locals, take the evening off spotted in the former D&RGW Provo Yard on Sept. 7, 1997. The UP 5876 was the first former SP GP60 to be re... (more)

A trio of red and silver Super Fleet beauties lead piggybacks through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on May 2, 1991.

UP 446, an EMD SD24 'Power Unit' is coupled to the UP S5, a 'Yard Slug' (a former UP GP9B No. 306B) awaiting repair work at Union Pacific's Salt Lake Shops in Oct. 1977. At the time, the duo were ... (more)

SP's Denver to Roseville Forwarder emerges from the 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel in Spanish Fork Canyon on June 19, 1993.

Six Western Pacific GP7s and GP20s await disposition in Union Pacific's South Yard in Salt Lake City. The WP 703 found new life working for Mountain Diesel Transportation. The stored Union Pacific... (more)

It's a beautiful Spring morning in Utah's Salt Lake Valley. What better sight to see today than an original SP AC4400CW leading a UP train across the former Rio Grande? Here SP 343 leads the MNYRO... (more)

On March 5, 1977, Rio Grande's Bucyrus Derrick 027, a steam powered wrecker (based out of Roper Yard), was called to clean up a coal train derailment on the Union Pacific interchange track at Univ... (more)

Rio Grande Spreader 052 awaits the need to remove snow between switches in the old D&RGW yard at Alamosa, Colorado. It was rebuilt at Burnham from a wood frame flanger in 1941.

My very first visit to Rio Grande's Roper Yard on New Year's Eve 1976 yielded this amazing grouping of locomotives. Whenever I hear about EMD's 'SD45' model, I always think of the Southern Pacific... (more)

The last original D&RGW unit on today's Union Pacific emerges from the twin Kyune Tunnels on the climb to Soldier Summit grade.

Rio Grande hostlers shuffle power from an inbound Western Pacific train to the Roper Diesel Shop on March 5, 1977.

The silence of the Green River Desert is briefly interrupted by the passage of SP's hot Roper-Denver trailer train. Looks are deceiving though, as the trailers are at the rear of the train, behind... (more)

After pitch hitting for an ailing GE P40DC on Amtrak's California Zephyr, a Cotton Belt GP60 awaits the Roper Yard hostlers, parked at the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City the mornin... (more)

A pair of Rio Grande GP9s set out a tank car of nitric acid at Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork, Utah. Conductor Neal Thorpe is on the ground, directing the procedure as D&RGW train #666 makes a ... (more)

A Busy Morning at Belen: at left, inbound Santa Fe 675 East with double stacks while at right, outbound Santa Fe 850 West with trailers at Reinken Avenue on April 5, 1998.