As storms move east on the afternoon of October 20, 2015, a westbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train passes milepost 20 at Mormon Gap, Colorado. The train is powered by GE E60C-2 electric locomotives energized by a 50,000-volt overhead wire using catenary supports on a 35-mile line from the Deserado Mine loadout in Colorado and the Bonanza Power Plant in Utah. The railroad was originally built in 1982-1983 and called the Deseret-Western. The first two locomotives on this train are the original E60C-2 locomotives used during startup, acquired from GE from part of a cancelled order of the 6,000-h.p. machines for Nationales de Mexico. The third locomotive in the photo (recently-repainted DPR-3) is one of five former NdeM E60C-2s that DPR bought to supplement the fleet in the mid-2000s.
