An afternoon interchange train for the Union Pacific leaves the Searles Valley Mineral plant and heads into the desolate land between Trona and the yard in Sealres.

A Grande View! Rio Grande power dominates this January 2000 elevated view of the yard at Helper, UT. UP's LJP45 "Dirt Train" local has just arrived back in town and is seen passing a few ... (more)

The westbound UP "dirt train" has paused at Wash (just east of Wellington, UT) to pick up a single empty hopper from the small, mostly unused yard there. I assume this was a bad order c... (more)

Three Rio Grande tunnel motors lead the "dirt train" east along UP's Green River Sub just west of Wellington, UT. About 10 miles further east at Mounds the train will be routed onto the... (more)

A westbound train departs Miniturn behind four Rio Grande locomotives.

The sun peaks briefly behind the clouds as the Corman sand train waits for a crew at Nugent sand in Louisville.

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors are at a crawl of less than 1 MPH as they pull 10 loads of export coal out of the Pax loadout, uphill toward Mount Ho... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande intermodal train exits the Glenwood Tunnel east of Glenwood Springs on July 6, 1987. This part of Interstate 70 highway through Glenwood Canyon was completed in 1965, with a... (more)

With the interchange of interstates 65, 64 and 71 along with the Big Four walking bridge as a background R.J. Corman's sand train heads for the CSX before getting back on home rails at HK to head ... (more)

On a clear winters day in February 1985 an eclectic mix of SP power, a normal for the SP, climbs through Canyon as they make their way towards Bakersfield. The tracks below are Santa Fe's and tena... (more)

With early morning light, DRGW 5357 leads eastbound train #742 at Clay, CO, on Feb 4, 1984.

Pooled with Union Pacific four Rio Grande tunnel motors 5394, 5351, 5346 and 5341 are heading west with a Kaiser coal train destined for Southern California.

DRGW 5364 leads eastbound train #100 at Plainview, CO, on Jan 7, 1984.

Rio Grande SD40T-2 5363 eastbound near Crescent, Colorado with the Gross Dam Reservoir in the distance.