Leaving the yard at Salt Lake City, returning back to a Guard Unit up north.

UP 8337 and UP 8325 are up to full track speed as they pass Little Mountain on the way across the Great Salt Lake.

UP 725, a RC or, remote control engine, had a bad day in the Ogden yard a short while ago it would seem. I wonder if they wear seatbelts in there and what the other guy looked like. I will bet he... (more)

UP 8337 and sister SD70ACe UP 8325 make ready for a run across the Great Salt Lake and on to the west coast.

One eastbound (top) and one westbound . . . the double track mainline in Echo Canyon, south of Evanston, WY is often very busy with containers east, finished goods west.

UP 7504 heads north with a very long string of gondolas trailing along behind her. The Bear River Canyon shows off her late spring colors with blue sky to boot!

Nourth bound UP 2527 leads UP 2529 towards Cache Junction with a load of the valleys production.

Southbound CSXT 9031, UP 3116 and UP 9754 leave the yard at McCammon, Idaho. Slowly making a 90 degree turn off of the wye.

The Malad Branch local's, UP 1049 and UP 3376 takes a short break over the long holiday weekend. Although through traffic seemed to run as usual, the branch lines and the industry they support too... (more)

South bound UP 3733 sits cold and silent on the siding at Wheelon, perhaps dropped from the motive power consist for mechanical reasons. Should this be the case, Ogden will soon send up a spare sw... (more)

Today CSXT 9031 leads UP 3116 and UP 9754 back toward home with the sulfur train in tow. They will split her into three sections this evening and continue the journey back to the Kennecott Copper ... (more)

The Central Pacific,s Jupiter and the Union Pacific,s 119 sit proudly on display at the summit of Promontory. The Golden Spike National Historic Site maintains, what is thought to be very accurate... (more)

North bound UP 4095 and UP 5052 enter the outskirts of the yard at Pocatello. Moving grain hoppers and empty lumber racks back to the greater northwest for a reload and back again. A lot of traffi... (more)

East bound UP 4429, NS 9307, UP 9480 and UP 4750 move along the Portneuf River and the eastern Idaho lava flows. The shelf along the river that the UP follows here was first graded in 1872 and the... (more)