A Utah Railway coal train heads east with 81 empties for the mines in Carbon County. The 9012 has an interesting history. It was built by EMD as an SD45-2 for the Santa Fe in May 1972. By July 198... (more)

A Utah Railway Wildcat coal load climbs west through Castle Gate at the Cyprus Amax Willow Creek Prep Plant. The Willow Creek load out was shut down late in 2000 when two coal miners were killed i... (more)

The power leading Utah Railway's RUT310 local does its best to propel 49 cars of freight from Midvale bound for Provo Yard. The lush green fields that lined the right of way here are now occupied ... (more)

Appearing to be right out of the box, a Utah Railway MK5000C gleams in new paint at the IPP Railcar Service Center in Provo, Utah. The 5003 was built new by MPI as a demonstrator in Southern Pacif... (more)

A Utah Railway coal empty meets a loaded train with mid-train helpers at the West Switch Kyune on August 8, 1999.

Utah Railway's RUT612 local glides south through Riverton with 30 cars for Provo Yard. Continuing Utah Railway's history of rostering unusual motive power, the head end includes an OmniTrax GP38-2... (more)

A warm April 1997 afternoon finds Provo Yard awash in gray and red Utah Railway power. Included in the lashups are six SD40s, an F45, and an SD45-2. Technically the F45 and SD45-2s are SD40s as th... (more)

A matched quartet of MPI rebuilt SD40s lead a Utah Railway coal empty east through Price Canyon approaching Lynn.

With engineer Stu at the helm, Utah Railway's RUT311 local departs Salt Lake City for Midvale Yard to tie up for the day. At right, Utah Transit Authority's light rail to commuter rail station is ... (more)

On a sunny winter day, a Utah Railway coal train loads at Wildcat loadout on February 11, 2004.

The arrival of 11 rebuilt and repainted SD40s from MPI late in 1991 brought new excitement to photographing the Utah Railway. Here a clean four pack lead an export coal train through Spring Canyon... (more)

Utah Railway's first GP38-2 leads an RUT312 local east through North Yard in Salt Lake City. The 2000 is in familiar territory as it was built a GP35 by EMD as the D&RGW 3037 in June 1964. In 1998... (more)

Two Alcos lift Utah RRs empty coal hoppers eastward up Rio Grandes Soldier Summit en route back to its own property near Helper. Just ahead are the horseshoe curves at Gilluly.

Utah Railway's RUT312 local glides east through Murray City with 24 cars for Midvale Yard.

Utah Railway engineer Fred K. navigates his RUT311 local across 11th West Street in Woods Cross, Utah. Historically, this was D&RGW's Subdivision 7 mainline between SLC and Ogden. Rio Grande's Pro... (more)