The Chicago & North Western Heritage SD70ACe leads the KG1CI-31 out of Ogden on Sept. 2, 2016.

A beautiful morning in Castle Valley finds Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5406, 5342, and 5347 pulling the 'Dirt Train' local east out of Helper on the road to ECDC at Columbia Junction on May 5, 2000.

With the Rio Grande 'Gang of Four' on the point, UP's LJP45 local rolls through D&RGW's 1945 'Farnham Line Change' east of Wellington on April 11, 2003. The track realignment required a new crossi... (more)

'The Spirit That Won The West'

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5353, 5373, 5401, and 5410 drift into Helper Yard at the Art Deco style Janet Street bridge on April 20, 2000.

A Union Pacific stack train with former SP and Cotton Belt GP60s, heads west along Rush Lake approaching St. John on April 8, 2000.

Southern Pacific's Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder meets the UTO8L local at University Avenue in Provo on Sept. 8, 1996. The merger with the mighty Union Pacific was only three days out.

A Chicago & North Western C41-8 leads an 84 car Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train west through Springville on April 14, 1996.

Rio Grande's 101 train emerges from the Thistle Tunnels on May 20, 1989. To the right is a large landslide that made necessary the 1983 line change through Billy's Mountain.

Southern Pacific's Chicago to Roper manifest freight climbs through the Green River Desert approaching Thompson on Sept. 28, 1996.

A quartet of EMD SD70Ms pull 74 loads of new automobiles into Salt Lake City for a crew change on Oct. 2, 2016. UP's ALBWGX-30 train is traveling between Long Beach, California and West Chicago, I... (more)

Utah Railway F45s No. 6613, 6606 and SD45 No. 9147 load a train of UP coal hoppers at the Plateau mine at the foot of Gentry Mountain on Aug. 13, 1985.

Minutes after changing crews at Helper, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train is back on the move for an overnight journey to Denver, Colorado.

On a frosty December morning in 1974, the Rio Grande Zephyr makes its first station stop out of Salt Lake City, during its 575 mile journey east to Denver.

The year may be 2000 and the date may be April 1st, but the presence of Rio Grande tunnel motors in Helper, Utah was no joke. D&RGW 5345 shoves on the rear of Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake C... (more)