UP 4460 and UP 4288 prepare for departure from the Ogden yard with a fresh crew.

Engineer of UP Y637 coupled with UP 563 is waiting for the reverse signal, they are moving freight cars around in the Ogden, Utah yard. This yard switcher was at one time apparently a MP unit.

The grade gave way and dumped two full cars of scrap metal for Nucor Steel out onto the street. Traffic was blocked for a few hours until they got a front loader in to scrape and or push it back o... (more)

UP 2529, her conductor signaling the go ahead, picks up a string of cars from the local Cache Valley Branch. It is always fun to watch the through freights stop and switch cars in and or out.

The American Orient Express, headed up by AMTX 187 with B unit, AMTX 192 departed Salt Lake City at noon, heading back home to the northwest. She was just on a trip of the Grand Canyon and Nationa... (more)

This Kershaw brush cutter sits in the MOW side yard at Wheelon. It might be a few months before she is needed yet. Improvements in the track and grade base are currently underway up Bear River Can... (more)

This Kershaw ballast regulator sits in the yard at Evanston waiting for its next assignment. A lot of the double main line in Echo and Weber canyons has been updated with the new cement ties of la... (more)

Headed up by LORAM Rail Grinder, RG 310, this center section of a rail resurface grinding train is on the south side of the double, Omaha to Ogden main line, heading east. Following will be the ta... (more)

Remarks: After clearing the block Amtrak 92 and her consist head toward the east and a Mississippi River crossing. Living out west things such as this are a rare treat.

East bound UP 4302 is leading UP 4014 and 9414 up the grade in Echo Canyon. Bound for points in the Eastern part of the UP System they can make good time on the double line main to Omaha.

North bound UP 3819 leading UP 9103. is a mixed freight leaving the Cache Valley. She was most likely made up in Ogden and is headed for Pocatello and points in the great northwest.

UP 2575 and UP 2529 are parked at the Cache Junction yard for the rest of the weekend, engines slowly idling, compressed air pop offs breaking the evening silence. On Monday there will be a new st... (more)

South bound UP 4353 leads 4123 over the wooden bridge south of Weston, Idaho and into Utah's Cache Valley.

UP 1040, horn blaring at the crossing below town . . . the Cache Valley Branch, Local makes her way south toward Logan and home for the day. Normally there are two units, sometimes as many as thre... (more)

This east bound LORAM Rail Grinder, RG 310, unit was out performing a rail resurface operation on the south side of the double Overland Mainline, somewhere on the open plains of Nebraska. Quite a ... (more)