Crossing Coyote Basin
Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train from Deserado Mine near Rangley, Colorado, to the power plant in Bonanza, Utah, crosses remote and stark Coyote Basin... (more)

Back to the loader on a Wednesday eve
It’s 7:11 p.m. on June 21, 2023, as the Deseret Power Railway coal empty returning from the Bonanza power plant in Utah approaches milepost 17 an... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train to the powerplant in Bonanza, Utah, crosses remote and barren Coyote Basin as it approaches milepost 26 east of Bonanza on the afternoon of June 21, ... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train is climbing out of Coyote Basin between milepost 26 and 27 east of Bonanza, Utah, on a beautiful June 21, 2023.

Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal empties slithers through the curves rolling through Coyote Basin at milepost 24 east of Bonanza, Utah, on October 20, 2015.

It’s 7:11 p.m. on June 21, 2023, as the Deseret Power Railway coal empty returning from the Bonanza power plant in Utah approaches milepost 17 and Midway, Colorado.

DPR-1 begins the ascent up Holum Pass with coal loads for Bonanza at sunset

It’s late afternoon as an eastbound Deseret Power Railway empty unit coal train makes its way back to the mine for loading, east of Midway, Colorado, on June 24, 2021.

This Deseret Ry. empty coal train is about 1 ½ miles from the end of the unloading loop at the Bonanza Power Plant. Ahead lies 32 miles of running across this stark, uninhabited and at this time ... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 electric #DPR-1 is eastbound about 1 mile out of the Bonanza Power Plant. I worked out here on these barren, but to me beautiful, uplands and saw this unique railroad every week... (more)

It's 4:30 PM and Deseret Power Ry's afternoon train has just left the loadout. The morning crew had loaded the afternoon train on their return from taking the AM train to Bonanza and back. The swi... (more)

Deseret Power Railway coal train has just finished loading at the Deserado Mine loader on the loop track at the facility north of Rangely, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 19, 2015. Soon, a n... (more)

On June 24, 2021, an afternoon trip of the Deseret Power Railway makes its way back to the mine for loading, east of Midway, Colorado.

An afternoon westbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train is making a run at grade over Holum Pass at milepost 2 west of the Deserado Mine Loadout on the afternoon of October 21, 2015. Three Ge... (more)

On October 20, 2015, an eastbound Deseret Power Railway empty unit coal train rolls through the curve at milepost 24 in colorful Coyote Basin, Utah.