Utah Ry #5003 is slowly pulling into the yard at Martin, Utah with a strange train indeed. Normal URy unit coal trains have a lot of coal hoppers; enough to require 4 big units up front and 5 or 6... (more)

UP 1983, the Western Pacific Heritage Unit, brings this Engineering Special flying through the small Utah town of Wellington. The weather in eastern Utah was dark and stormy this day, but this "su... (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)

E60 #DPR-1 with a westbound loaded coal train on the Deseret Ry. is about a mile from the Utah/Colorado state line in this shot taken at Mormon Gap, Colorado. Mormon Gap is a narrow cleft in a hog... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 6000 hp electric #DPR-1 leads 2 more E60’s and a 44 car empty coal train through the colorful badlands of eastern Utah’s Coyote Basin. The colorful rocks exposed here are T... (more)

The crazy things railfans do to get a picture. I left my house at 4:30AM this morning and drove about 100 miles over a 9100’ pass to get to the town of Wellington, Utah just so I could take this... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 #DPR 1 is just leaving the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant in far eastern Utah on a perfect summer day. Those small mounds on both sides of the track are stabilized sa... (more)

It gets very cold on the uplands of eastern Utah. This early March shot shows a fair amount of snow still on the ground as the Deseret Ry's morning train pulls slowly out of the unloading loop at ... (more)

This shot is the very east end of the Deseret Ry in western Colorado at the coal loadout for the Deserado mine. Here, DPR-1 and two other E60’s are slowly pulling 44 empty coal gondolas through ... (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)

Utah Ry. #5005, an MK5000 model, rests in the sunlight at the Martin, Utah, enginhouse awaiting its next helper assignment. The photo was taken from the public road that crosses the tracks directl... (more)

A very late running Amtrak #6 scuttles through the new snow at Colton, Utah. #6 has just topped Soldier Summit at a little under 7500’ elevation and will shortly begin the 2.4% downgrade throug... (more)

Deseret Ry’s #DPR-2 has the daily loaded coal train rolling easily downgrade about 4 miles from its final destination, the Bonanza Power Plant. The terrain here is composed of colorful Tertiary... (more)

It has just stopped snowing at the Skyline loadout in Carbon County, Utah. In spite of the BNSF leader, this is a Union Pacific coal train. The #4501 will pull the train entirely through the loade... (more)

UP 7420 leads the SEKCB-05 eastbound over Utah’s Soldier Summit at Kyune. This customer special has 19 of UP’s immaculate passenger cars in tow as it approaches the west switch Kyune and the t... (more)