On a foggy morning in the Tooele Valley, Union Pacific's MoPac Heritage SD70ACe leads a Global Three, IL to Long Beach, CA stack train around a super elevated curve just east of Erda, Utah.

Denver & Rio Grande Western's rerouting of its mainline bypassing the big Thistle landslide is well underway on June 15, 1983. The 3009 ft. tunnel under Billy's Mountain is nearing completion with... (more)

Its detour time! Due to four consecutive wet winters, Utah's Great Salt Lake rose to a record height of 4211.6 feet above sea level by 1986-87. This gave the Southern Pacific operational headaches... (more)

A quartet of EMD SD40s lead a Utah Railway coal empty east through Price Canyon at Castle Gate on Jan. 20, 1992.

A Super Fleet painted GE B40-8W and an EMD GP60M lead high priority intermodal traffic east through Eagle Nest, Arizona on April 11, 1993.

With a five pack of EMD geeps for power, a Rio Grande manifest curves east through the Green River Desert near Thompson Springs. The winter of 1978-79 must have been a wet one with abundant greene... (more)

A Utah Railway swing helper meets a Savage coal load on the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah. The swing helper will cut into the train off the south leg of the wye, then the combined consi... (more)

Western Pacific's business car 'Feather River' was spotted at the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City on Jan. 29, 1977. The car was built by Pullman Standard for the Union Pacific in 19... (more)

More than 130 mechanical refers are stored and tied down on a portion of Union Pacific's Tintic Industrial Lead at Spanish Fork, Utah. Spanning a distance of more than 1-1/2 miles of track, these ... (more)

Soon after Western Pacific-Union Pacific merger in 1983, WP power was distributed throughout the Union Pacific system. A few WP GP35s found work between Provo and Geneva Works when UP retired thei... (more)

A pair of EMD SD40-2s lead a Union Pacific passenger special through Tooele Valley on Oct. 23, 1994. The south shoreline of the Great Salt Lake and the old Western Pacific mainline are just to the... (more)

Union Pacific SD60M No. 6239, SD40-2 No. 3480, and C30-7 No. 2500 mingle at Provo Yard on Dec. 26, 1992. See if you can spot the surprise Rio Grande freight train that 'photobombed' the shot.

June 6, 1977 was a big day for Salt Lake City and for Amtrak. The very first run of the Seattle to Salt Lake City 'Pioneer' arrived at the Union Pacific depot downtown. This new connection bridged... (more)

Southern Pacific's Denver to Roseville Forwarder glides through the Jordan Narrows with box cars of Coors beer, shipping containers and piggyback trailers on June 24, 1993.

Chicago & North Western C40-8 No. 8573 leads a Salt Lake City, Utah to Stockton, California stack train out of North Yard on August 5, 1995. The 4000 horsepower unit was built by GE for the CNW in... (more)