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)

American author/photographer/historian Lucius Beebe's 'Virginia City' Pullman observation car takes a tour of the Denver & Rio Grande Western coupled to Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 at Gill... (more)

A Union Pacific Las Vegas to Salt Lake City officers special makes a brief stop at Provo Yard. Do you suppose the crew working the TR5 'cow and calf' switcher are following the rule book pretty cl... (more)

On July 24, 1998, a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2s (DRGW 5345, 5360, 5382) were called out of Helper Yard to drag a stalled out Roper to Denver manifest freight from Castilla to Soldier Summit. The M... (more)

Union Pacific's Evanston Local creeps slowly across an ancient wood pile trestle that spans the Weber River on the Holcim Cement Plant industrial spur at Devil's Slide, Utah.

A hot shot Rio Grande manifest from Pueblo, Colorado heads west through Provo Yard. The D&RGW's first wide vision caboose (still in factory delivered paint) brings up the rear of the train that in... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2s 5390 and 5358 pull a 33 car Dirt Train local through Price Canyon at the Kyune Tunnels. The use of stacked containers of trash transported in well cars was short lived on the S... (more)

A Utah Railway 'Alligator' greets the morning sun on New Year's Day, 1978.

On Dec. 5, 1970, Rio Grande's Provo Switcher has been assigned the task of hauling former Union Pacific 2-8-0 #618 and six cars to the mouth of Provo Canyon. Here the train moves slowly up the bra... (more)

Union Pacific's 'City of Heber' passenger train? Not hardly. On July 18, 1989, a group chartered a dinner train on the Heber Creeper from Heber City to Vivian Park and return. UP NW2 #1011 pulls t... (more)

A pair of SP GP60s lead the Malta Turn out of Minturn Yard with 25 cars on Sept. 27, 1996. Russell snowplow X-67, built for the Rio Grande in Jan. 1950, awaits an opportunity to clear the yard of ... (more)

Utah Central Railway's classy GE 44 tonner and caboose greet a sunny new day in West Haven, Utah.

The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay passenger train and cauldron car roll through Weber Canyon on the road to the Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia. The train will soon stop for a ceremony in the small to... (more)

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An interesting group of locomotives from Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and Electro Motive pull a 58 car North Platte to Milpitas vehicle train across the south arm of the Great Salt Lake on Apr... (more)