Glenwood Canyon is a deep gash through the White River Uplift just east of the town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Interstate 70 and the Union Pacific’s Glenwood Springs Sub follow the Colorado ... (more)

Deseret Power Ry’s afternoon train is seen here about a quarter of the way through the process of loading its 44 car train. It is creeping around the loading loop at less than walking speed. Whe... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry. is about half way done with painting it's entire fleet of 4 E60 electrics. The paint job comes with a new road name; Deseret Power Ry. Today's empty morning train has 2 of th... (more)

Utah Ry. 6060 west is bringing an empty coal train over Soldier Summit and in the process is overtaking a BNSF trackage rights manifest train stopped on track #1. The BNSF train followed the Utah ... (more)

The Union Pacific Wendover Local runs every day except Sunday to service the many mineral extraction, ore loadouts and hazardous waste facilities on the shore of the Great Salt Lake and on the Bon... (more)

There’s an interesting back story to this shot of UP 8490 with a westbound grain train about to enter Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada. Earlier in this misty, sometimes rainy day the train ahead o... (more)

I was driving east across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I80 in Utah on my way home from Silver Zone Pass when I overtook UP’s Wendover Local at Clive. I took the Clive exit, but just as I got to ... (more)

UP 6803 has left Arnolds Loop 2 or so miles behind and it is still on the sustained 1% westward grade leading to the summit of Silver Zone pass. The grade to Silver Zone Summit begins at Wendover,... (more)

I took this image of this empty coal train as it rolled down the east slope of the Toano Range in eastern Nevada. It is about to cross under Interstate 80. The photo location is about 3 highway mi... (more)

This Utah Railway unit coal train is seen swinging out of the large horseshoe curve just below (east) of Kyune, Utah. The 2.4% grade the train has been fighting will lessen at Kyune, about 3 miles... (more)

This is the shortest coal train I have ever seen on Soldier Summit; 20 cars loaded at the Savage coal loadout near Wellington, Utah. After I posted this shot on a railfan site in 2010 I learned th... (more)

Utah Ry. 5004 and 3 more big 6 axle units are bringing this unit coal train up the lower reaches of Price River Canyon near the crossovers at Lynn. Further back in the train is a 5 unit manned hel... (more)

BNSF's daily Denver to Provo trackage rights manifest train is seen here in an almost Christmas card setting near Colton, Utah. The location is the westbound climb to Soldier Summit just below Kyu... (more)

Lakeside, Utah is one ugly place. It is where the Union Pacific Lakeside sub reaches dry land after crossing the Great Salt Lake causeway to the west shore. Not a tree in sight; no permanent popul... (more)

The railfan network worked perfectly for me, as I was informed about this train in plenty of time to pick a spot and get set up. Unfortunately the weather gods didn’t treat me as well; eastern U... (more)