June 25, 1989 must have been my lucky day. Not only did have the opportunity to see and photograph Union Pacific's Geneva - Comstock ore train, but it would pass my vantage point with not one but ... (more)

A pair of EMD SD40s and two GE C30-7s lead Union Pacific's Sharp, Utah - Valmy, Nevada coal train east by the Herriman style Spanish Fork depot in southern Utah County. When UP closed the freight ... (more)

Photographed on Kodachrome 25 slide film a few minutes before sun down, Rio Grande ballast train #772 climbs east along the Mapleton Bench approaching Sutro. D&RGW SD40T-2 #5401 (blt. Mar. 1980) w... (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)

Rio Grande local #666 exits the westward main track while ducking under US Highway 6 with a tank car of nitric acid for Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork, Utah. D&RGW's Gomex spur was constructed ... (more)

The business of mining and hauling coal has historically been a cycle of boom and bust. Coal traffic was phenomenal in the mid-1990s with the Utah Railway hauling multiple trains per day, seven da... (more)

A colorful power combo leads BNSF's Stockton, CA - Denver, CO trackage rights manifest east through Sutro Cut on UP's Provo Subdivision.

A Utah Railway Willow Creek coal empty meets a Union Pacific swing helper tucked away in the siding at Sutro. The 9012 is former Santa Fe Caterpillar powered SD45-2 #5855.

A Burlington Northern GE/EMD combo lead a 70 car Stockton, CA to Denver, CO trackage rights manifest through Sutro Cut on UP's Provo Subdivision. I'm definitely missing the variety of power and pa... (more)

A Utah Railway coal train heads east with 81 empties for the mines in Carbon County. The 9012 has an interesting history. It was built by EMD as an SD45-2 for the Santa Fe in May 1972. By July 198... (more)

Long before buffer cars were as common as they are today, a pair of Rio Grande GP9s move a tank car of nitric acid (bracketed by mill gondolas) for Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork. D&RGW train #... (more)

Rio Grande train #142 ascends the 0.8% grade of the eastward main track along the Mapleton Bench east of Springville. The 142 was a daily tonnage freight that forwarded cars interchanged with the ... (more)

A Rio Grande work train glides west with a train of air dump cars, bound for rip rap loading on the Pipe Mill Spur in Vineyard. The snowy flanks of 9088 ft. Maple Mountain loom in the background, ... (more)

Soon after the Rio Grande Zephyr was discontinued in April 1983, the trio of F9s were assigned to haul ballast trains throughout the D&RGW system. Here the trio of beautiful F units and GP30 #3010... (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)