CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)

This scene is at the Canyon Coal Company’s Skyline Mine flood loader high up on the Wasatch Plateau in Utah. Elevation here is over 8000’. The mine is out of sight, on the left, up a canyon a... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

Test train ETR 500 Y # Y1 of the RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) is leaving Roma Tirburtina to the north. This train called AIACE has 8 intermediate cars and the power cars E 404 # 649 and # 652 a... (more)

To reach this spot in Nevada from Little Mountain, Utah, west of Ogden on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, UP 9522 has had to cross 30 miles of the Great Salt Lake, using the Bagley, Saline and R... (more)

Utah Ry. got into the business of hauling crude oil fairly early as seen in this shot of a UTAH train descending the 2% grade off of the west side of Soldier Summit. The oil in these tankers is ho... (more)

This Union Pacific empty coal train passing Grassy siding in Utah is on it’s way back east for a coal re-load at Bowie, Colorado. When loaded it will head back west to the large IPP power plant ... (more)

D&RGW #3077 is eastbound, in your face, at Utah Ry. Junction at the lower end of Price River Canyon. Helper Yard is about 3 miles or so ahead. Those tracks on the left are the yard leads to Utah R... (more)

This ex. Oregon Short Line 2-8-0 looks great as it approaches the end of the line at Heber City, Utah. This Heritage RR is part of the Heber Valley RR Museum and operates over 16 miles of an ex. R... (more)

In spite of the BNSF leader, this is a Union Pacific coal train just cresting Soldier Summit in a light snow storm. The train loaded at the Skyline Mine near Scofield, Utah and has a mix of UP and... (more)

What’s this? A Utah Railway train in Kansas? When the Utah Railway stopped operating its line from Provo, over Soldier Summit to the Helper, Utah area their MK5000 locomotives became surplus. S... (more)

This ex. Southern Pacific SD45T-2, rebuilt as an SD40T-3 and now running as DM&IR #405 is passing through Iron Jct., Minnesota with a train of raw taconite ore. They are headed to the Fairlane pe... (more)

These 2 grimy coal motors are leading a coal train eastbound past the 12 million year old volcanic neck called Finger Rock. Location is between Yampa and Toponas on the ex. D&RGW Craig Branch in C... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western RR, The Action Road

What is this? A Canadian National locomotive leading a coal train from a mine in Colorado on Union Pacific tracks in Utah! Taken at Mounds, Utah.