This 5 unit set of Utah Railway helpers is rolling downgrade at Kyune near the top of the Price River Canyon. Actually I should have called them "helps" as that is what the Utah Ry. calls them. Ju... (more)

Three pristine SD40N’s are in charge of Union Pacific’s “Dirt Train” out of Helper Yard this day. The train is seen here rolling downgrade and crossing Grassy Trail Creek. It has finished ... (more)

Last man standing; that’s the Deseret Power Ry. The Black Mesa & Lake Powell is gone, as is the Escalante Western. There used to be quite a few dedicated commodity short lines in the mountain we... (more)

Western Pacific’s hottest train, the Ford Fast, has just left the D&RGW Roper Yard in Salt Lake City. It is now only a mile or so west of Grant Tower and about to gain home rails at WP-UP Jct. S... (more)

Western Pacific's "Ford Fast" train is headed west fast at Marblehead, Utah. This train of auto parts and new autos was delivered to the WP in Salt Lake City by the D&RGW. The D&RGW received it in... (more)

Thanks to a very timely heads-up from a fellow railfan I decided to try and catch this UP business special at Helper, Utah. My info. was that the special was expected at Helper at 6AM. Amtrak #6 i... (more)

Missouri Pacific #5051 seen here at Rock Springs, Wyoming eastbound with a soda ash train. During the UP/MP merger period in the 80’s quite a number of ex. MP units were painted like the #5051. ... (more)

Southern Pacific's RVKCM is seen here roaring east through the tight confines of Red Narrows. The Spanish Fork River, US Highway 6 and the double track, ex D&RGW mainline are jammed together in th... (more)

A Kennecott Copper southbound empty ore train is nearing the end of it's run to Copperton. This "High Cab" GP39-2 was a special order from EMD and was intended to give the engineer improved visibi... (more)

SP 4310 pulls out of Canyon Siding onto the SP main line to head west. Scanned from a color print.

It's a cold late winter morning in downtown Salt Lake City. The sun has not even risen above the peaks of the Wasatch Range to the east. The D&RGW train #18 is ready to leave the depot on it's day... (more)

Western Pacific's CCVX is seen here crossing the Humboldt River at the abandoned townsite of Palisade, Nevada. This location in Palisade Canyon was the northern end of the narrow gauge Eureka and... (more)

Eastbound Train 126 behind a GP40-2 meets a westbound 775 coal train at Gilluly on the 2% grade to Soldier Summit. Scanned from a color print.

Back in 1996, the Rio Grande was fulfilling its role as a bridge route across the Rockies. The railroad was alive with SP traffic like that shown here at Narrows, Utah. Scanned from a color print.

The only trains you can really count on seeing in daylight on the Union Pacific Glenwood Springs Sub are the twice a day Amtrak’s, #’s 5 and 6. Because of this I decided to go east on the road... (more)