Utah Central 201 is an aging chop-nose GP9 painted in glossy pure black, making it hard to see in any situation. Here it is cut in mid-train to set out several boxcars at the Petersen Steel wareho... (more)

Don't let that yellow fool you! This train is operated by Utah Railway, not Union Pacific. UTAH employees marked December 26th 2016 with the annotation "The End" on their train schedule ... (more)

The replica of the famed Central Pacific Jupiter takes turns with the 119 to be operated for three days in the winter for a special steam festival. Engineer Thomas Brown braces himself in the cold... (more)

The slickrock environment of the Kane Creek Subdivision means that washouts and sand dunes are a regular occurrence. Due to flash floods a few weeks previous, the Potash Local was under a slow ord... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, rolls across the barren desert at the foot of the Book Cliffs in Utah. At this spot a bit of the original narrow gauge D&RG alignment can be seen bre... (more)

The crew of the "Boise Turn" has just arrived at the Union Station in Ogden and is preparing Union Pacific 844 to leave in the twilight of early morning. Once the sun comes up the crowds... (more)

The Heber Valley Railroad operates the former D&RGW Provo Canyon Branch, hence its non-historic locomotives are painted in Aspen Gold to celebrate that fact. Here, the afternoon Deer Creek Express... (more)

Great Western 296 was purchased by the Heber Valley Railroad from a museum in Boulder Colorado and after a thorough mechanical rebuild was tested on a revenue passenger train longside one of their... (more)

The last locomotive in true Utah Railway paint to run on Utah Railway's own tracks is the 6061. After the MK503s and other two SD50Ss were moved to other G&W properties, the 6061 was the only unit... (more)

Getting up speed, Central Pacific Jupiter shows off her motion at the 2015 Winter Steam Festival at Golden Spike National Historic Site.

The Gilluly Loops are not as famous as other similar engineering feats but is still spectacular when long trains snake around themselves. Shorter trains, like Utah Railway's HUTAHJ, seen here at t... (more)

Two trains occupying Provo's coal tracks (formerly the Ironton Branch before Columbia Steel shut down its plant at Ironton) get crews before departing on the Sharp Subdivision.

Over the past week several BNSF unit grain trains have operated on a detour route over Union Pacific's Lakeside sub, south through Salt Lake City then east through Provo. These trains have been ni... (more)

Kuhn's is the name of the spot where the Provo yard merges with the Sharp Subdivision, named after a meat processing plant that formerly stood near the tracks. This end of the yard is used to stag... (more)

An approaching storm motivates the tri-weekly Provo-to-Ogden local train on its way north. The SD50S at the head is a rare bird now that there are only two locomotives in the original Utah Railway... (more)