After setting out a load of cotton seed at the dock, the Cache Valley Local retrieves grain empties near the Preston, Idaho depot on August 22, 2015.

UP's YSC25R shoves a long cut of cars into track 104 at North Yard while building an MSCWC train that will depart Salt Lake City for West Colton later that evening.

A pair of Utah Railway GP38-3s pull east through Salt Lake City on the way to Woods Cross to switch tank cars at Holly Refining.

An clean EMD SD70AH leads a Global 1 to City of Industry stacker west through Salt Lake City on Sept. 5, 2015.

After spending most of the summer working in local service out of Helper Yard, UP GP40P-2 No. 1373 finds itself assigned to an RCL switch job at North Yard in Salt Lake City. The 1373 is from a cl... (more)

Union Pacific's daily Kansas City to Oakland auto train glides west through Provo with 59 cars on October 6, 1996.

A trio of Chicago & North Western C44-9Ws lead an Oakland to Canal Street piggyback train by the old Salt Lake City intermodal yard on July 26, 1995.

Three GE C44-9Ws and a single SD40T-2 pull a Minntac to Geneva iron ore train through Spanish Fork Canyon on January 22, 1995.

Merger Mania Climbing the Grade to Wahsatch

UP Streamliner in Echo Canyon

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City Diesel Shop, which opened in 1955, employed 500 workers during its peak in the 1970s. The shop was sold to the Utah Transit Authority in 2003, and renamed the Warm S... (more)

A pair of EMD GP60s pull the Rio Grande Ski Train through Coal Creek Canyon on March 28, 1997.

Still thinking about my first encounter with Nevada Northern SD7 No. 401 at Intermountain Power Service Corporation in Delta, Utah. A thing of beauty, 63 years young.

Wasatch Mountain Railway's traditional Labor Day doubleheader climbs through Provo Canyon on Sept. 6, 1976.

A single GE C40-8 pulls a 38 car Salt Lake City to Ogden mixed freight up Cherry Hill near Farmington on May 12, 1994.