One of my earliest Kodachrome Slides, photographed when I was just 14 years of age, catches a Utah Railway Provo to Martin Turn cruising east through Spanish Fork Canyon on June 24, 1976. In the l... (more)

In yet another case of "I was not happy with what was in front of me" (at the time), here we have Utah Railway Mainline 2. Laid off from flying for United Airlines and nothing better to do, I wan... (more)

I watched this Utah Ry. coal train load at the Wildcat loadout near Helper and then after it finished loading and cut in mid train helpers at Martin Yard I followed it up Price River Canyon toward... (more)

The Utah Railway Company has always rostered an interesting array of diesel locomotives, while looking for a great deal. For two years, they leased a pair of former Southern Pacific SD35s from Omn... (more)

MK-50-3 # 5006 and # 5003 of the Utah Railway, built by Morrison Knudsen in Boise, Idaho in 1993/1994 as MK5000C with 5000 HP Caterpillar V12 3612, but rebuilt with EMD 3500 HP 16-645F3B prime mov... (more)

With a fresh crew on board, a Utah Railway westward coal train slowly accelerates taking the train over the summit and down the western side of the pass.

Empty tank car train of the Utah Railway rolling down Soldier pass on the heavy 2.4 % grade below the Nolan tunnels, with MK50-3 (built by MK Rail in Boise, Idaho as MK5000C in 1994) # 5001, # 500... (more)

An empty tank car train of the Utah Railways is entering the yard of Martin near Helper, pulling are 5 sixaxle locomotives. On the left two others are waiting for switching the cars from the rear.... (more)

Empty tank car train rolling down Soldier pass with the towering Castel Gate rock in the background. Pulling are Morrison Knudsen built MK5000C from 1994/1995, now rebuilt and reclassed as MK50-3,... (more)

Empty tank car train of Utah Railway bound for Martin between Colton Xover and Kyune. Pulling are MK5000C # 5001 and 5002, SD50S # 6062, SD50S # 6064 in the orange G&W paint scheme and MK5000C # 5... (more)

No problem for the five sixaxle Utah Railways (part of Genesee and Wyoming Co) locomotives with the empty tank car train on the ascent to Soldier summit near the Tie Fork Rest area below Tucker. P... (more)

UT Rwy westbound coal load climbing through Nolan tunnel toward Summit

A quartet of UT's SD40's are running around their train at Wattis loadout before returning downgrade to Helper

The crude oil business seems to have become nearly as important to the Utah Ry. as the coal business. According to a URY engineer I talked to, they are shipping out around 80 cars of crude oil a w... (more)

Utah Ry. #5005 has just arrived at the Wildcat coal and crude oil loadout with a cut of around 12 empty tanks. It has brought the empties from Martin Yard about 5 miles west of Wildcat. After back... (more)