On the way home from an outing with the family. I was able to catch this guy racing across the LASL. UP 7615 is demonstrating a new way to wave the flag in the wind.

Fortunately the special encounter some traffic at Garfield so I was able to get one more shot at LM Bryon. He passed me here like a rocket ship.

After shooting my first shot of the officers special at Faust. I had plans for a couple other shots. Well after I got my first shot. The 3084 put the peddle to metal. I was on a country road going... (more)

I got the chance to catch a Yuma to Council Bluffs engineering special. Lead by a shiny SD70ACe-T4 3084.

A portion of Union Pacific 200 stored locomotive in Salt Lake Cities North yard. Casualties of precision railroading. Even thought these strings of locomotives have been sitting in storage for ove... (more)

A matching set of Utah Railway GP38-3's 2007 and 2008. Roll along the RG runner with the Salt Lake skyline providing the back drop.

I believe this was originally called Fireclay, if you go back on old timetables. It now appears as Murray. This used to be an industrial area. In the last 10 years, it is being converted to high d... (more)

Where else in the year 2020 can you find three SD50's running together. I think you would be hard pressed. Also Utah Railway 6062 and 6061 are the last two unit running on the Utah with the Utah R... (more)

SD70ACe-T4 3071 is rolling through the openness of Erda, Utah, with a 8800 ton train. It's about to enter the city of Tooele/Warner on the Lynndyl Subdivision.

My opportunities to catch EMD Tier 4's has been few and far between. I was elated to catch one tonight. It was neat to hear it by itself working it's guts out, to get an idea of what they really s... (more)

A couple AC that sure look a lot better than they use to. UP 7254 and 7260 look pretty good after some upgrades, and new paint jobs. The are pulling westbound on the Lynndyl Subdivision.

On a beautiful St Patrick's day evening. Union Pacific 8615, 8238, 8469, 3915 race across the ex Western Pacific Shafter Subdivision. This line has been a low usage line, with mainly low priority ... (more)

On what was a rainy, cloudy day. I saw small opening of blue sky, and was able to catch UP 7381 in the sunlight. UP 7381, 7243, and 7724 head westbound with the Oquirrh Mountains for a back drop.

Tier 4 GE 2728, and EMD SD70ACE 8922, lead the IG2LA. It's a very beautiful afternoon, but very windy on the Lynndyl Subdivision.

Rio Grande Heritage locomotive UP 1989 is crossing the Ex Western Pacific causeway over the Great Salt Lake. The train is a Oakland to North Plate train, with two units on the head-end and two mid... (more)