As a westbound Utah Railway coal train crosses over to Main 1 at URJ (Utah Railway Junction) near Martin, Utah, a set of light helpers led by venerable Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5371 waits on Main 2 ... (more)

On display at Ogden Union Station, a variety of fine equipment sits preserved and under cover.

Heading up the Sunnyside Branch on October 25, 2007, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” is led by Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5371, with wrinkled paint and weathered Rio Grande logo still emblazo... (more)

A westbound DRGW train has just met an eastbound at Dotsero junction of the Moffit and Tennessee Pass routes east along the Colorado River

Just before sunrise on October 8, 2004, Union Pacific’s LJP45 local heads for the Sunnyside Branch at West Mounds, Utah. Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5371 erupts with smoke as it sw... (more)

A rising sun brightly silhouettes Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 as the local switches Mounds, Utah, on October 8, 2004. A stark nose profile of a variant of one of General Motors’ best selling... (more)

Somber gray clouds hang over the Wasatch Range on the morning of January 30, 2003, as Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5371 leads the Union Pacific “dirt train” past mile 607.4 east of Wash, Utah. Engin... (more)

In a view from a plateau overlooking Price River Valley where it flows into the intermountain desert, the eastbound Union Pacific “dirt train” curves through the cut at mile 607.35 on the Gree... (more)

The last Rio Grande locomotive operating on the Union Pacific in original colors and numbers is seen through the open doors of the small enginehouse at Helper, Utah, on November 7, 2007. Very late... (more)

Twilight for No. 5371
The final Rio Grande locomotive (road number and paint) on the Union Pacific slumbers under the yard lights at Helper, Utah, in the twilight of November 5, 2007.

Old warrior of the Wasatch.

D&RGW #5371 is seen here running out her last revenue miles on her former home rails. The light power has run east from Helper to the Wash siding where the small yard there serves as a staging are... (more)

The very last unpatched and unrenumbered DRGW unit on the Union Pacific roster, DRGW 5371, is a legitimate last survivor as it rolls downgrade past Castlegate near the bottom of Price River Canyon... (more)

The last Rio Grande tunnel motor to work the Helper, UT-based "Dirt Train" leads empties west out of Sunnyside for Mounds where the train will rejoin the main (Green River Sub). As of the date of... (more)

Long long ago in a world far far away, Rio Grande SD40T-2 5371 was just another 'tunnel motor' working on the D&RGW. The 5371 would become the last originally numbered and painted Rio Grande locom... (more)