After a Union Pacific track gang replaced the frog at West Mounds, Utah, on May 11, 2006, welders move in and use a thermite weld on the rail joints. A one-time-use form is attached to the rails s... (more)
On May 4, 2004, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches Mounds, Utah, westbound on the Sunnyside Branch. Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” Nos. 5349, 5371 and 5390 bracket U... (more)
Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, cuts through a dusting of winter amid the beautiful textures of a high desert approaching the west switch at Mounds, Utah, on a cold November 22, 200... (more)
Amtrak's number 6 the California Zephyr rolls through Utah's eastern desert. As the day light journey begin for it's passengers, in a area known as the book cliffs.