Smile for the camera! The train crew of a Nampa, Idaho to Los Angeles, California passenger special pose for a portrait prior to a departure west from Salt Lake City. The crew members are (left to... (more)

A Union Pacific local rambles slowly down the Passenger Main with 22 cars for industries west of Salt Lake City. Caboose 25668, a CA9 model, was built in June 1967 and donated and placed on displa... (more)

Union Pacific's APSCOA (American President Line - Salt Lake City - Oakland) stack train roars west on the former Western Pacific mainline at 56th West in outer Salt Lake City. This rural landscape... (more)

Union Pacific's Long Street Switcher, based out of North Yard, rambles south down the middle of 4th West street on the Passenger Main in downtown Salt Lake City. It appears some of the local pigeo... (more)

On Independence Day 2013, UP's Denver - Salt Lake City expedited intermodal train ducks under Redwood Road while approaching CP C780, Orange Street in Salt Lake City. The Utah State Capitol Buildi... (more)

On Independence Day 2013, a West Colton - North Platte freight arrives at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City.

Brand new GE ES44AH units lead the MNPWC through CP C784, Salt Lake City on the hot afternoon of July 6, 2013.

The familiar flanks of a GE ES44AC lead UP's West Colton - North Platte freight through Salt Lake City while the Utah State Capitol Building (built in 1916) looms on nearby Capitol Hill.

Shiny and new GE ES44AH units lead the MNPWC west out of Salt Lake City through CP C783, Grant Tower.

A colorful General Electric P32BWH, built in Dec. 1991, lays over at the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City. Amtrak 504 would lead the nocturnal departure of the Desert Wind train to Las Vegas and... (more)

An EMD SW1200 drags an Amtrak F40PH from the Roper Diesel Shop to the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City on May 31, 1992. D&RGW 135 was built by EMD for the Rio Grande in Jan. 1965 and... (more)

A pair of factory fresh GE ES44AHs, working UP's North Platte to West Colton manifest, make a switch move off main 2 at North Yard in Salt Lake City.

A new Cryo-Trans mechanical refrigerator car takes a break at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The CRYX 5825 was manufactured by Greenbrier of Lake Oswego, Oregon in Feb. 2013. The car is 72 feet ... (more)

When Salt Lake City hosted three long distance trains per day, a switch engine was on hand to add or subtract cars from the California Zephyr. Amtrak SW1 #736, nicknamed 'Lil' Toot', gleams in the... (more)

A trio of Missouri Pacific C36-7s lead the NPLA out of Salt Lake City on January 10, 1986. The MP 9018 was built by GE for the UP in October 1985 and retired as the UP 618 in June 2001. It would l... (more)