Wildcat loadout on the Utah Ry. in eastern Utah has resumed operations after a several month shutdown. Shown here is UTAH #5004 shortly after beginning the loading process. #5004 is a very rare M... (more)
It's an unusual sight to see a solid train of empty coal gondolas westbound on Utah's Soldier Summit grade. But here is such a move. Normally, westbound coal trains are loaded, not empty. The trai... (more)
BNSF 4592 and UP 6500 descend the east side of the Soldier Summit grade in Price River Canyon below Kyune. The train consists entirely of TILX aluminum hoppers. It continued on down to Helper wh... (more)
Something a little different today on the Utah Ry; an SD50 led crude oil train seen here descending the 2.4% grade in Price River Canyon. These are empty tank cars headed to Wildcat siding for o... (more)
SD70M #4551 brings a huge Union Pacific work train west up Utah’s Price River Canyon past the famous Castle Gate rock formation. Castle Gate just doesn’t look the same today as it did many yea... (more)
This Utah Ry. 5 unit, manned, mid-train helper set led by #6061 is blasting up Price River Canyon in eastern Utah. They are helping URy #5006 and 3 other head end units (see picture #321319) with... (more)
URy #5006, an MK5000 leads a loaded coal train up Utah’s Price River Canyon just below Kyune. The train is bound for the huge IPP power plant near Delta, Utah and will be interchanged to the Un... (more)
Three of Union Pacific’s dwindling fleet of ex SP AC4400’s lead the MNYRO out of the Horse Creek horseshoe curve on the ascent to Utah’s Soldier Summit. Location is just below Kyune on UPâ€... (more)
Three SP AC4400’s lead Union Pacific’s MNYRO westbound up Price River Canyon just east of Kyune in Utah. Also in the consist are 2 UP SD60M’s picked up in Helper yard. They are “dirt trai... (more)
The very last unpatched and unrenumbered DRGW unit on the UP roster, DRGW 5371, rolls downgrade thru Kyune, Utah. 5371 and the trailing SD 40-2 had been dispatched earlier from Helper to go west o... (more)
An eastbound UP freight passes the famed Castle Gate (and a few badly-timed cars on US 6!) on its way downgrade to Helper.
Deep in the confines of Price River Canyon, the Denver to Roper Yard (Salt Lake) intermodal climbs the 2.4% grade to Soldier Summit.
Six units lead a westbound hotshot on the climb to Soldier Summit. Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 slide.
