ex-NdeM EA036

ex-NdeM EA036

Before they turned off the juice. This operation is difficult to photograph because of the lack of grade crossings, the poles and catenary, and the panels erected on the sides of the overpasses t... (more)

e/b BM&LP empty hopper train approaches the loadout at Kayenta. When loaded, the train will head back to the power plant at Page, Arizona. Engine consist: NdeM EA034, BM&LP EA036, BM&LP 6006, NdeM... (more)

Late on a stormy summer afternoon, Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Bonanza Power Pl... (more)

The setting sun casts long shadows as a loaded Deseret Power Railway train sweeps past the unusual rock formations of Coyote Basin.

Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Deseret Power Plant.

One of the few level ar... (more)

The northwest corner of Colorado is easily characterized as rugged; it's a tough place for anything to survive, and as the scrub brush adorning the rocky ridges attests, precipitation is a scarce ... (more)

It took two years of waiting for the opportunity to get back to the summit of Holum Pass, but when I finally was able to set up there once again I couldn't have arranged for better light. Storms ... (more)

The Deseret Power Railway's Pettibone crane drags freshly-painted DPR 4 into daylight for the first time. Unit 4 sports essentially the same paint scheme as Units 1 & 2, delivered new to the Dese... (more)

On a line with only one train every eight hours in either direction, you have to be quite lucky to go along the line and just bump into one - and really lucky we were! Having no idea, when a train... (more)

Lake Powell in the background.

Golden sunlight breaks through scattered clouds on a summer morning at Deserado Mine in the northwest corner of Colorado. The Deseret Power Railway yard and mine loadout are quiet for the moment,... (more)

The day's second train is now just a few miles away from the terminus of its 74 mile long journey, the massive Navajo Generating Station.

Ex NdeM´s EA004 and EA023 will never see the rails again, they were bought by the BM&LP just for parts. Photographed stored in Page with the NGS in the background