The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus red train descends the 2% grade from Soldier Summit at Gilluly on June 14, 2016. The 59 car special was traveling between Colorado Springs and Las ... (more)

Due to a boiler tube failure on the 844 that lead to precautionary measures on the 3985, Union Pacific SD9043MAC No. 8070 was assigned to assist a short steam special through Echo Canyon, returnin... (more)

Union Pacific's Helper Yard as viewed from Hill Street west of the Price River on June 19, 1999. Present in the yard are D&RGW SD40T-2s No. 5342, 5390, 5345, 5360, 5385, 5376, 5401 and 5400. By al... (more)

A Public Service of Colorado coal train climbs through Coal Creek Canyon approaching Tunnel 1 on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The 97 car train will load at the Energy mine on the Cra... (more)

With four additional Amtrak cars including the Beach Grove observation car, the California Zephyr train No. 6 climbs toward Soldier Summit on June 5, 2016. Amtrak President and CEO Joseph H. Board... (more)

With Amtrak's Phase 1 Heritage P42DC in the lead and the last Siemens ACS-64 delivery trailing, a 14 car California Zephyr glides through Wellington Canyon east of Wash on June 5, 2016.

With Amtrak's Phase 1 Heritage P42DC in the lead and the last Siemens ACS-64 delivery trailing, a 14 car California Zephyr curves through Spanish Fork Canyon just after sunrise on June 5, 2016.

A matched quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors lead a 44 car Salt Lake City to Denver manifest freight at Soldier Summit on Feb. 8, 1997.

Rio Grande on the Great Salt Lake

A dramatic storm system invades Salt Lake City just as the MWCNP pulls into North Yard for a crew change.

Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight rolls downgrade through Spanish Fork Canyon just after sunrise on May 27, 2016. Plentiful wet weather has left its mark along the lush gre... (more)

Union Pacific ran a passenger special between Las Vegas, Nevada and Helper, Utah on May 25, 2016. It looked great passing through the Jordan Narrows south of Salt Lake City, from a hillside recent... (more)

On April 13, 1999, the UP 6936 was coming west from Grand Junction on an engineering special. As I drove into Helper that morning to scope out a shot, the MDVROX was departing the yard with a four... (more)

Union Pacific's Long Street Switcher rambles along UP's Passenger Main in Salt Lake City on April 2, 1999. EMD SW1500 No. 1068 (ex-SP 2461) has seven grain loads on the drawbar for nearby Cereal F... (more)

A Utah Railway Mohrland Turn rumbles across the spectacular Gordon Creek bridge on July 24, 1979. The bridge was built in 1912, rises 135 feet above the creek, and spans 634 feet in length on both... (more)