Minutes after a crew change Salt Lake City, a 51 car Milpitas, CA to North Platte, NE auto train accelerates to track speed at the Flying J refinery in North Salt Lake. April 14, 1996

General Electric C36-7, C30-7, and C40-8 models pull a Milpitas to North Platte auto train out of North Yard in Salt Lake City on July 22, 1995.

Union Pacific's MINPV (Milpitas, CA - North Platte, NE) auto train rolls east along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake at Lake Point, Utah.

When this Milpitas, CA to North Platte, NE vehicle train was photographed in May of 1990, the GE C40-8 was king of the mountain. Three standard cab style 'Dash 8' motors lead an older C36-7, two E... (more)

A vehicle train out of Milpitas heads uphill through the lower canyon on its way to North Platte.

A quintet of venerable SD40-2s lead an MINPV across the towering Clio Trestle.

An eastbound vehicle train exits a tunnel that's been "notched" for high-cube double stacks onto the Keddie Wye in the early morning sun in March 1996.