So, here I am sitting on a gray shale hill, all by myself before dawn, out in very rural eastern Utah. Cattle are bawling and a coyote runs across a field near me. I am waiting for Amtrak #6, the ... (more)

On an absolutely gorgeous Spring morning in downtown Salt Lake City this TRAX Red Line light rail set is slowing for its stop at the Courthouse station. The location is on Main Street opposite th... (more)

It’s not every day that you see a one car train with three units for power in Utah coal country. It’s even more unusual when the train has a 4 axle GP40P-2 leading. There were only 3 of this m... (more)

The weatherman said this day was supposed to be partly cloudy, so I took off on the roughly 80 mile drive over to the Deseret Power Ry’s terminal in far western Colorado to see if I could get so... (more)

What a mess. An eastbound Utah Ry. empty coal train derailed in Utah's Price River Canyon while passing a westbound Union Pacific loaded coal train and loaded cars from the westbound derailed into... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry.’s afternoon loaded train is rolling downgrade over Moffat County Road #134, also known as the Blue Mountain Road. This type of a culvert overpass is common on this railroad... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry’s E60 electric # DPR1 is seen here sitting at the very end of the coal loading loop. Just out of sight at the lower right corner is the spring switch at the main line. Engin... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry's empty train returning from the Bonanza Power Plant was 2 or 3 hours late today. This plus the sun angle this time of year limited my shot location for favorable lighting to... (more)

It was over 33 years ago, but it seems like yesterday. Rio Grande Zephyr at Grassy, Utah

Jericho, Utah is on the old Los Angeles & Salt Lake RR, now the Lynndyl sub of the Union Pacific. No town at Jericho, just a 9709’ siding. A short distance south (RR west) of Jericho is a wonder... (more)

This shot is a companion to my image #555832 and was taken about half a minute before it. This time of year it is often a race between the afternoon loaded coal train’s arrival at a photo locati... (more)

The Deseret Power Ry.'s loaded afternoon train usually leaves the loadout, around 4:30PM shortly after the swing shift arrives for work. This time of year, here in eastern Utah and western Colorad... (more)

I had about half a day to spend in the Salt Lake City area, but with the short daylight hours this time of the year that’s not a whole lot of time. So I took off west and then south of the city ... (more)

Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada just never gets old for me. I have been going there for decades. This shot shows an empty, eastbound, iron ore train rounding the Loop. It is headed for Iron Springs... (more)

Amtrak #6 is running a little late today; actually over 7 hours late here at Grassy, Utah on UP’s Green River Sub. It was stuck behind a disabled freight in Nevada and then the engineer ran out ... (more)