A trio of new GE C44-9Ws and a veteran EMD SD40T-2 lead a 70 car Roper to Valley Camp coal empty through Spanish Fork Canyon on Jan. 2, 1995.

An eastbound Union Pacific “dirt train” led by Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5390 curves by the colorful rocks west of Narrows, Utah, on May 5, 2004.

Southern Pacific's Kansas City to Roper Q-train heads west through the switch and the shifted load detector at Lakota Junction on a hazy Sept. 27, 1994 morning. With 20 years of urban sprawl and t... (more)

Southern Pacific's 68 car UT04L local roars east through American Fork while the SP 9609 awaits a relief crew on Dec. 17, 1994.

Twenty years ago, Motive Power Industries in Boise, Idaho had ambitious plans to enter the locomotive market. On their maiden voyage from Boise to Southern Pacific rails in Ogden, MPI MK5000C unit... (more)

Southern Pacific's Denver to Roper Manifest waits out a meet in the siding at Riverton on Aug. 26, 1994. The extended 123" nose SD40T-2 was built by EMD for the SP in May 1979 and retired from ser... (more)

A speed lettered SD45T-2 leads a 58 car Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) manifest through Utah County east of American Fork on Aug. 28, 1994.

An MPI SD40M-2 and three EMD 'cinderblocks' lead a Eugene to Chicago Q-train east through Riverton on Aug. 23, 1994.

While thunderstorms pound the nearby Wasatch Mountains, a Southern Pacific Denver to Roper manifest departs American Fork siding on Aug. 14, 1994.

Southern Pacific's Denver to Oakland Forwarder rolls west through rural Riverton with 53 loads of beer and piggyback trailers on August 3, 1994. The shoreline of historic Lake Bonneville is visibl... (more)

Rio Grande SD50s 5510, 5508, and 5515 lead an 82 car Roper to Grand Junction manifest along the Jordan River at Mesa on July 23, 1994.

Rio Grande GP40-2s 3110, 3102, and 3125 lead the Provo Local with 21 empties for Geneva Steel on July 10, 1994. Just for fun, click on the Google Map in Satellite view to see how much this landsca... (more)

With classic SP six axle power in the lead, a Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) manifest glides down Cherry Hill on UP's Salt Lake Subdivision on May 29, 1994.

SP's Kansas City to Roper Q-train has a nice mix of power as it passes through a stormy landscape at Riverton on July 2, 1994.

Under a deep blue sky, SP's Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) Q-train ascends the Mapleton Bench on June 26, 1994. The SP 7321 was built by EMD as SP SD40 No. 8415 in Feb. 1966.