Utah Railway 5005 before it was painted orange. It didn't last very long. In July of 2003 it returned with it's orange paint. In this picture 5005 and 5003 also still have their MK5000C 5000HP Cat... (more)

Back when business was good enough for Utah Railway, they would run two trains. Utah Railway SD40's 9002, 9003, and 9010. Climb up the Price River Canyon with a loaded late afternoon coal train.

A former Australian iron ore SD50S, and a MK5000C with a 5000 horse power Caterpillar motor, sandwich two SD40's. It's a changing of the guard for Utah Railway, with their new to them locomotives.... (more)

When they were new and shiny. Utah Railway 9011, 9002, 9007, and 9001 roll down Spanish Fork Canyon. This is near the abandon town of Thistle. The eastern end of the new grade called Rio.

The Utah Railway GP38-2's were just coming on the scene. Pictured are Utah 2005, 2006, 2003. One of the previous lease fleet of GP10's OMLX 1030 is still on the scene. Of interest in this is pictu... (more)

Utah Railway 9006, and three friends have made it down the canyon with another loaded coal train.

A matching set of Utah Railway SD40's make there way up the canyon. It was so exciting when Utah Railway got locomotives again in there own paint scheme. Utah Railway 9011, 9002, 9007, and 9001.

Utah Railways one ALCO RSD5 306 sits in poor condition In Salt Lake city in the fall of 1993. this is the unit that was sold to Doyle McCormack and painted Nickel Platte road in Portland Ore/ ... (more)

It was a treat to see the F45 in the head end of the consist. It spent most of it's days sandwiched in the helper set. (Tom Ellis photo)

Utah Railway GP38-3's 2007, and 2001, are moving right along with the RUT312 local.

A Utah Railway local is seen passing Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

Retired but reflecting the look of a earlier era.

Pi Day in the Wasatch

Photographed at Pi time on Pi Day - Shot on 3/14/15 at 9:26 (3.1415926) ... Well, close enough, anyway, as my camera said it was 9:27 and James Belmont's sa... (more)

In 1985 Utah Railway acquired their own power again. The first units they got were these four former Burlington Northern F45's 6606, 6607, 6613, and 6608. The four unit set that my dad captured he... (more)