Utah Railway crews shuffle the deck on the south leg of the wye of the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah.

A Utah Railway swing helper meets a Savage coal load on the Castle Valley Spur near Wellington, Utah. The swing helper will cut into the train off the south leg of the wye, then the combined consi... (more)

A Rio Grande manifest heads east for Grand Junction on the approach to Wellington, Utah. If anyone can offer any insight regarding the six unusual loads at the head end of the train, I would appre... (more)

A Union Pacific coal empty, bound for Converse, CO on the North Fork Sub, glides east through the desolate environs of Utah's Green River Desert near Mounds. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia trans... (more)

Veteran D&RGW engineer Mel Baughman 'smokes it up' for the photographers as the Rio Grande 5390, 5349, and 5371 lead the LJP45 Dirt Train near Mounds.

Captured at sunrise, a trainload of Wildcat coal off the Utah Railway heads east toward Denver along UP's Green River Subdivision just east of Wash, Utah.

UP 1983, the Western Pacific Heritage Unit, brings this Engineering Special flying through the small Utah town of Wellington. The weather in eastern Utah was dark and stormy this day, but this "su... (more)

The engineer working Union Pacific's 'Dirt Train' throttles up between the sidings at Wellington and Price with a long train of coal hoppers for the upper yard at Helper, Utah.

On a fine November afternoon in 2006, BNSF Railway's Denver, CO to Riverbank, CA manifest leans into a speed elevated curve a few miles west of Mounds, Utah.

Union Pacific's Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT manifest crosses a wood pile trestle (milepost 607.46) just west of Mounds, Utah. UP 6393 was build by GE as SP 275 in June of 1995. The second mot... (more)

After performing a pickup in the old yard at Wash, Rio Grande 5371 leads the eastbound LJP45 'dirt train' toward Mounds with 7 cars for ECDC at Columbia Junction.

Union Pacific's Denver-Salt Lake manifest sprints westward along the Green River Desert just west of Mounds, Utah. The third unit in the consist is a former D&RGW SD50.

With plenty of power on the point, four UP SD40-2's move a single tank car east from the Pierce Oil Spur at Price to the storage yard at Wash, Utah.

After performing a scale test at Savage loadout, UP's 'Dirt Train' power rolls around the east leg of the CV spur wye, bound for the yard at Wash to pick up seven loads for ECDC at Columbia Juncti... (more)

While the driver captures pacing images, a BNSF Railway Pueblo-Provo freight charges west through the town of Wellington, Utah. A stunt like this borders on the crazy, but the results can be worth... (more)