With colorful oak brush along the foothills of Loafer Mountain, SP's Roseville to Denver Forwarder charges east up Spanish Fork Canyon with 66 cars on Sept. 24, 1994.

A Union Pacific Operation Lifesaver Special, traveling between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Salt Lake City, Utah passes through Uintah with UP 9054 and 9051 SD70AH units leading the Columbine, City of... (more)

The Malad Local rambles along the old pond at Watery Lane in Brigham City on May 9, 1995.

The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 is a few minutes from its regular station stop at Helper as it passes Castle Gate on Dec. 17, 1978.

Santa Fe 5354 knocks down ABS 3333 at Cosnino, Arizona on Sept. 27, 1990.

A Southern Pacific coal load climbs the steep Tennessee Pass Subdivision a mile or two below the summit on a sunny March 29, 1997 afternoon. The 100 car train had three AC4400CWs on the point, fou... (more)

Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744 leads Deer Creek Scenic's Santa Claus Express through an icy landscape at Deer Creek Dam near Wallsburg. The 1744 was built by Baldwin for the SP in November 1901.

SP's PRGVR 'Elberta Turn' meets UP's CSRLA (Sharp, UT - Los Angeles, CA) export coal train at the Payson trestle in southern Utah County. The UP train had stopped briefly for a red signal at CP C7... (more)

Soon after the UP-SP merger, many former D&RGW SD40T-2s returned to home rails. Here a matched quad of EMD 'tunnel motors' lead a 44 car RODVM (Roper, UT - Denver, CO) through Price Canyon at the ... (more)

Chasing the setting sun, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 is minutes away from its regular station stop at Provo.

Pictured is a moment of weather drama I will never forget! I was driving through the west part of downtown Salt Lake City where both UP and D&RGW had passenger mainlines that ran down the middle o... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp rambles along the Garfield Branch at Bacchus Junction in West Valley City, Utah. This trio of classic first generation EMD's (GP9 5942, SD9's 5312 and 5310) were placed ... (more)

An almost surreal moment in mountain railroading is captured as a Union Pacific freight climbs out of the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon while a BNSF manifest stirs up a cloud of dust descendi... (more)

Looking for a little Santa Fe style? How about a trio of brand new GE C44-9W's leading a stack train along the Seligman Subdivision at East Perrin, Arizona? Things appeared to be very prosperous f... (more)

On a gorgeous spring morning in 1974, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 climbs Spanish Fork Canyon along it's namesake river approaching the small town of Thistle, Utah. The right of way at this poi... (more)