I was able to catch this guy out in the open. Big West Oil / Flying J, 1 working the refinery in North Salt Lake.

Union Pacific 7948 heads up the I-15 corridor on the Salt Lake Subdivision, with an empty coal train. Heading for Wyoming for another load.

D&RGW train number 1, the Scenic Limited, is seen at Ogden Utah on July 30th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It's a pretty rare site to see Utah Railway use three locomotives on one of their Salt Lake locals. It was my luck to catch three on the RUT312, passing Front Runner 17. The Utah is lead by GP40-... (more)

Utah Railway 2001, and Union Pacific 5698, meet under the Salt Lake City skyline.

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train is climbing out of Coyote Basin between milepost 26 and 27 east of Bonanza, Utah, on a beautiful June 21, 2023.

It's 2003 but you would never know it. The employees in Helper, Utah keep the Rio Grande alive as long as they could. D&RGW 5349, 5354, and 5390. near the end of the Sunnyside Branch with a loaded... (more)

Utah Railway 9003 and 9004 are really getting the lead out. It's actual a pretty substantial grade on the Garfield, and Bingham Branches. The Utah Railway RUT310 goes across the two branches on t... (more)

Great Western Railway GP9 296 leads the Heber Valley Railroad excursion train south by the Deer Creek Dam trailhead, nearing Wildwood, Utah.

During the time that MK was converting the MK5000C to MK50-3's. A few MPEX unit were loaned to the Utah Railway. This train has two of them MPEX 5000, and MPEX 5356. MPEX is a one of a kind. And o... (more)

Operating way out west in Heber City, Utah (in May of 2019) was the Boston and Maine and Maine Central heritage geeps, along with a Great Western Railway GP9, on the Heber Valley Railroad.

Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal empties slithers through the curves rolling through Coyote Basin at milepost 24 east of Bonanza, Utah, on October 20, 2015.

Union Pacific GP38's 578 and 724 make their way back to Roper yard, with a pretty substantial train of tanks.

Waiting for another train. I lucked into this BNSF movement of two Stadler FLIRT's for DART. They will make the trip from Salt Lake to Dallas over the old Rio Grande main.

The Helper to Roper manifest rolls home with a monster train. The majority of the train is picked up in Provo.