With a month and a half before the start up date on 11/16/09, a Northstar commuter test train operates between Big Lake and Coon Creek.

A UTA FrontRunner commute curves through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City. The state capitol building (designed by Richard Kletting and completed in 1916) looms large on a bench above downtown.

MP36PH-3C #898 leads train #115 north into Simi Valley, CA right on time.

After a quick business trip to San Francisco, I would take the Baby Bullet on the left to the BART in Millbrae to SFO for my first ever ride on this line (ironic - considering my first photograph ... (more)

MNRX 504 leads a westbound commuter train out of the station in Minneapolis. Work continues on new signal and track installations in the area, as another test train dwells in the station. Service ... (more)

On a beautiful summer morning, a UTA FrontRunner commute greets D&RGW 5371 on track #1 at Ogden Union Station. The D&RGW tunnel motor had recently been donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum by... (more)

A Northstar commuter test train on Main 2 heads back to their facility in Big Lake.

Northstar commuter test train shoves east on Main 2 with a sticking brake evident by the blue smoke between the second and third cars.

With structures from the Gateway outdoor mall in the background, UTA FrontRunner train #2 departs Salt Lake City for Ogden.

UTA 18 sits on display at the Boise depot.

Moments out of Salt Lake Central station, a UTA FrontRunner departs for Ogden and points north.

While waiting for SP 4449 that got held up by a freight train issue west in Becker, I ran across MNRX 502 outside for some testing at Big Lake. I was hoping to get a nice meet shot with a new and... (more)

Northstar commuter test train between Elk River and Big Lake MN

It's all MARC at this end of MotivePower's locomotive stash. A dispute between MoPo and MARC has left MARC's three delivered MP36's out of service and the rest of the order piling up in Boise. M... (more)

Vroom vroom! Southbound Bullet #368 screams through the South City station at trackspeed, while ducking under the massive signal bridge as shown with a 1/60th second zoom pan