A short Utah Railway RUT312 local departs Salt Lake City for the Flying J Oil Refinery in North Salt Lake.

A pair of Santa Fe SD40-2s leads BNSF's MDVSTJ west out of Salt Lake City with 20 cars for Stockton.

Amtrak's 'Desert Wind' awaits a late evening departure from Salt Lake City for Los Angeles. Amtrak purchased 20 B32-8PW units from General Electric in 1991. Today they serve primarily as yard swit... (more)

A blast from BNSF 4389's horn scatters a flock of seagulls as it departs Salt Lake City for Stockton.

A very late Amtrak Desert Wind train #36 arrives in Salt Lake City from Los Angeles. These tracks and the triple searchlight signals have been removed and replaced by the Gateway Mall development.... (more)

A Santa Fe GP7u finds itself employed by the Utah Railway Company at the Amoco Oil Refinery north of Salt Lake City.

During the middle of the day, Salt Lake City's Amtrak station at the Rio Grande depot was a great place to observe passenger train power laying over from the Desert Wind and Pioneer trains. Three ... (more)

A rare Union Pacific CA-11 caboose takes the weekend off in the former D&RGW Fourth South Yard in Salt Lake City. The 25889 was built new by International Car for the UP in July 1979. Note how the... (more)

While Union Pacific's MHKROX (Hinkle, OR - Roper, UT, Extra) manifest departs North Yard a UTA test train departs the yet to be completed North Temple Street commuter rail to light rail transfer s... (more)

Do you remember when railroads employed crossing guards? The Union Pacific and Rio Grande once employed men to protect switch movements in South Yard over busy 3rd North Street crossing in Salt La... (more)

With engineer Stu at the helm, Utah Railway's RUT311 local departs Salt Lake City for Midvale Yard to tie up for the day. At right, Utah Transit Authority's light rail to commuter rail station is ... (more)

Union Pacific's ZG1SC (Global 1, IL - Salt Lake City, UT) expedited intermodal glides west through Salt Lake City.

With the arrival of hundreds of new SD60Ms in the late 1980s to early 1990s, it seemed the big EMDs were everywhere on the UP. Here a trio of the ubiquitous EMDs lead the APLA (American President ... (more)

Union Pacific's MGRRO (Green River, WY - Roper, UT) emerges from North Yard on the approach to Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.

Union Pacific's YRO25R switcher drags a long cut of cars to be classified at the bottom end of North Yard in Salt Lake City. The UPY 688 was built by EMD as the Missouri Pacific 1688 in Feb. 1982.