A Kennecott Copper Corp. train of interchange traffic from Union Pacific's Garfield yard heads south along the Dike Spur approaching Smelter Junction. KCC 792 was built for Kennecott by EMD in Dec... (more)

southbound loaded copper train headed about midway from pit at Copperton to smelter at Magna

Entirely too quaint to last much longer, these would soon be swept away.

On a sunny July morning in 1995, a pair of EMD GP39-2s, equipped with 'vista cabs', work Kennecott Copper Corp. yard trackage near the Arthur Concentrator in Magna.

A trio of Kennecott Copper Corp. GP39-2s throttle up pulling 89 cars through Central Junction. Salt Lake City's east bench and Emigration Canyon are in the background, at right.

A rare caboose hop returns from the Bonneville Concentrator to Copperton on Kennecott Copper's High Line. This southeastern perspective near Bacchus offers a good view of the Wasatch Mountains inc... (more)

One of ten 125-ton, 3,200 hp GE electrics built for the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper, No. 402 is exhibited at the Oquirrh Mountain Mining Museum near Tooele along with ore car 880 and ... (more)

A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore empties bound for the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in the Oquirrh Mountains. Built in 1947, the boxy GE... (more)

A very short Kennecott train of interchange traffic from Union Pacific's Garfield yard heads south along the Dike Spur approaching Smelter Junction.

On a warm springtime afternoon in 1994, a trio of EMD vista cab GP39-2s lead 83 loads of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine to the Bonneville Concentrator in Magna, Utah. By 2005, the ... (more)

A KCC train of interchange traffic from Union Pacific's Garfield yard heads south along the Dike Spur approaching Smelter Junction. KCC 792 was built for Kennecott by EMD in December 1978. Less th... (more)

A pair of Kennecott Copper Corporation GP39-2s depart Union Pacific's new (and relocated) Garfield yard with a lengthy train of interchange traffic.

A rare caboose hop returns from the Bonneville Concentrator on Kennecott Copper's High Line. This perspective near Bacchus provides a good view of the Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island and the conc... (more)

A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Mine bound for the smelters at Garfield. Built in 1947, these boxy GEs made e... (more)