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Southern Pacific AC4400CWs 194 and 215 pull a 75 car Roper to Chicago manifest through the upper Gilluly horseshoe curve on Aug. 31, 1996. A manned helper with two Rio Grande SD40T-2s (visible in ... (more)

A pair of GE ES44AH 'heavies' lead a West Elk to Long Beach coal train down the 2% through Gilluly on March 14, 2015. Historically, maintenance on the Soldier Creek fill has been a headache for de... (more)

Photographed at "pi" time on Pi Day - Shot on 3/14/15 at 9:26 (3.1415926) ... Well, close enough, anyway, as my camera said it was 9:27 and James Belmont's said 9:26 ... And as I never doub... (more)

A pair of SD70Ms, 4681 and 3798, bring a salt train, RRLNE (Rock, Rolla CO to Nephi UT, for reloading at Sharp, near Nephi), through the switchbacks at Gilluly, Utah, on March 14, 2015. The powe... (more)

A surprisingly clean 50 ft. ACF Spartan Easy Loader double door box car is pictured in Spanish Fork Canyon on Nov. 16, 1996. D&RGW 63790 is from a series of 100 cars built new in May 1963 for the ... (more)

A colorful power consist leads the RVKCM east through West Gilluly as viewed from East Gilluly on the opposite side of Spanish Fork Canyon, Oct. 5, 1996. Track profile charts indicate the photogra... (more)

A Cotton Belt GP60 and six other EMDs pull an 84 car RVKCM through Spanish Fork Canyon on July 13, 1996.

On Sept. 10, 1996, the last day before the SP merged into the UP, an RVASM climbs east through Gilluly with a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2 helpers cut into the 72 car train.

Assigned to SP's Third Help, a trio of Rio Grande tunnel motors provide dynamic braking as a 92 car Alton & Southern to Roseville manifest descends the 1.99% grade along the Soldier Creek fill at ... (more)

On a beautiful summer morning at the former Rio Grande Gilluly Horseshoe, SP's Roseville to Alton & Southern manifest grinds upgrade with 72 cars on Aug. 31, 1996. The train still has 700 feet of ... (more)

A fine quartet of standard cab EMDs pull Southern Pacific's RVKCM through the center siding at Gilluly on Aug. 24, 1996.

Southern Pacific AC4400CWs No. 248 and 128 lead a 105 car MNGVC through the Gilluly horseshoe the morning of Aug. 24, 1996. Two additional AC4400CWs are cut in mid train as distributed power units... (more)

A pair of brand new GE AC4400CW units lead a 126 car SP Salt Lake City to Denver mixed freight east up the 2% ruling grade to Soldier Summit on July 24, 1995. The Southern Pacific was experimentin... (more)

UP 7627 shoves on UP's MRONY train at East Gilluly on Oct. 17, 2014. You can see the entire 93 car train with the DPU shoving on the Soldier Creek fill and the head end approaching the upper horse... (more)