With colorful oak brush along the foothills of Loafer Mountain, SP's Roseville to Denver Forwarder charges east up Spanish Fork Canyon with 66 cars on Sept. 24, 1994.

Rio Grande GP30s No. 3003 and 3001 pull a 14 car Provo Local through the Utah County town of Lehi on January 23, 1994.

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5354, 5347, 5401, 5345, and 5349 assist the MDVRO train down a 2% grade through Detour in Spanish Fork Canyon on July 22, 2000.

Santa Fe's Winslow to Phoenix auto and piggyback train glides westward through the Coconino National Forest at Cosnino, Arizona on Sept. 30, 1994.

A First Union Rail SD40-2 leads a colorful Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight at Riverton on Aug. 24, 2000. Also in the consist: MKCX SD40M-2 No. 9014, CSX C40-8W No. 7858, UP SD40-2 No. 37... (more)

Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway SD40-2 No. 7816 leads a 75 car Denver, Colorado to Stockton, California trackage rights manifest on Union Pacific rails at Riverton, Utah on Aug. 30, 2002.

A trio of EMD GP39-2s lead 90 copper ore empties from Kennecott's Bonneville Concentrator in Magna to the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in Copperton. June 1, 1994

Rio Grande's Intermountain Power to Valley Camp coal train (with UP pool power) challenges Amtrak's California Zephyr to a race through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon on July 29, 1990. Bot... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5345, 5410, 5349, 5373, 5400, 5392, and 5347 are mid-train helpers cut into a Savage to Trona coal train grinding westward through the Kyune Gooseneck on Aug. 19, 2000.

After helping a 97 car MDVRO manifest freight from Helper to Soldier Summit, a quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors drift through Castle Gate on Aug. 19, 2000. In the background is Utah Power & Lig... (more)

Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City UPS train zigs and zags through Price Canyon at Kyune on August 19, 2000.

A St. Louis Southwestern B40-8 leads a Pueblo, Colorado to Roper (Salt Lake City), Utah manifest freight through Provo on Sept. 22, 1990. The SSW 8069 was built by GE for the Cotton Belt in Oct. 1... (more)

Fog, snow and rain make for a dreary mixture on Snoqualmie Pass as a westbound Milwaukee Road freight descends the pass and crosses Hull Creek trestle. Catenary poles still stand on the bridge ack... (more)

The late afternoon shadows are starting to creep across the valley as a Pittsburgh & Lake Erie run-through train crosses the trestle at Buzz, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg & South... (more)

A respectable mile long train of single stacked containers is nearing the end of its journey from Whittier to Anchorage. It's seen here on the mainline passing an SD70MAC on the adjacent Coastal ... (more)