A pair of well worn Kennecott Copper Corp. high cab GP39-2s await shipment at Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City. The duo were to be leased to the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad for 13 y... (more)

A trio of EMD GP39-2s lead a long train of copper ore from Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine to the Bonneville Concentrator in Magna, Utah.

A trio of EMD GP39-2s lead 90 cars of copper ore from Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine to the Bonneville Concentrator in Magna, Utah.

A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, bound for the car dumpers at Magna, Utah. Built in 1947, the box... (more)

General Electric 85 ton electric pit motors rest at Kennecott Copper's Dry Fork Shops in the the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine. The KCC 748 was built in Feb. 1937 while the 753 was built in April of ... (more)

On New Year's Day 1979, all is quiet at the Dry Fork Shops in Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine.

With 90 loads of Bingham Canyon copper ore on the drawbar, a trio of EMD GP39-2s head north on the High Line to the Bonneville Concentrator in Magna.

A fine example of a GE 125-ton Electric workhorse stands proudly at Copperton yard just outside Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine. This 3000 HP 'Magna Motor' was built in Nov. 1947 and would ... (more)

A pair of Kennecott Copper 'Magna Motors' arrive at Copperton yard with 90 ore empties ready for loading at the Bingham Canyon mine.

Kennecott Copper electric pit motors ramble slowly through the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine near Copperton, Utah. KCC 727 is an 85 ton, 1929 product of GE while KCC 762 is a 90 ton, 1942 product of ... (more)

While most freight trains had cabooses in 1977, relatively few had waycars painted in United States Bicentennial livery. A Kennecott Copper Corp. train conductor is pictured dropping his caboose f... (more)

A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Mine bound for the car dumpers at Magna. Built in 1947, the boxy GEs made eas... (more)

This photo has an interesting story to tell. My friend Steve Seguine had just purchased a brand new 1978 Chevy Monza Spyder (with a 305 V8) and was itching to take it for a spin. He invited me to ... (more)

inbound empty copper concentrate train approaching Copperton yard.

How many of us took operations like this for granted? This is a big gutsy monster of a center-cab and it has truck mounted couplers just like Tyco.