Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3129, GP40s No. 3147, 3148, 3090, and SD40T-2 No. 5347 pull a second section of train No. 100 east up the Mapleton Bench on Aug. 29, 1987.

A Southern Pacific B30-7 'baby boat' leads the MRVRO train into Roper Yard as viewed from the old (and soon to be demolished) 21st South bridge on March 14, 1998.

Chicago & North Western Railroad C44-9Ws No. 8608 and 8707 lead a 37 car North Platte to Oakland train of pigs, racks, & stacks on the former Western Pacific through Marblehead on Aug. 3, 1996.

The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 17 descends the 2% grade from Soldier Summit while navigating the Soldier Creek fill at Gilluly on June 19, 1976. Note the first F9B has its access doors open in an... (more)

Union Pacific's PVSC manifest freight is ready to depart Provo Yard for Salt Lake City with a pair of Missouri Pacific GP38-2s for power and caboose • July 18, 1986

A westbound coal train blasts through Uintah at Cemetery Road on Sept. 14, 2016.

A new EMD SD70AH leads a Global 1 to City of Industry container train west through Uintah on October 21, 2016.

Union Pacific's Evanston Local climbs the 1.14% grade east through Echo Canyon with 22 cars on Oct. 21, 2016.

The brutish, business-like appearance of an EMD SD45 leads an eastbound Rio Grande manifest freight into Provo on Oct. 17, 1976.

A Utah Railway Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train crosses Bullock Lane along Coal Track 2 south of in Provo on Feb. 21, 1987.

Southern Pacific AC4400CW motors navigate the Vasquez Creek fill east of Fraser, Colorado on March 28, 1997.

The Golden Hour

Union Pacific's MHKRO train (Hinkle, Oregon to Roper, Utah) emerges from the Bear River Gorge at Wheelon, Utah on May 23, 2000. The 34 car train has a mix of UP, CNW, and SP power at milepost 44 o... (more)

A Union Pacific officer's special from Silver Bow, Montana departs Dillon after changing crews at the UP depot on Oct. 11, 1993. After navigating the entire 255 mile Montana Subdivision, the 11 ca... (more)

Union Pacific's Cache Valley Local makes a switch move in Preston, Idaho on May 23, 2000.