A local out on the Shafter Subdivision, has backed it's cars on the industrial lead to do some switching. The evaporation pond provides a perfect mirror image for the two Union Pacific SD40-2's.
With the train basically coming northbound off the Ellerbeck industrial lead it gives a chance to capture the ruggedness of the of the Skull Valley Mountain Range. Two rebuilt SD40's UP 1860 and 2... (more)
About 2 miles in on the Ellerbeck Industrial lead, UP 1860 and 2015 pick up 8 cars. The is a former Western Pacific branch, branching off from the Shafter Subdivision.
UP 8773 with 7958 pushing from the rear move an autorack train across the ex Western Pacific.
The Marblehead Local rambles slowly toward the mainline on the former WP Ellerbeck-Dolomite Branch on Sept. 13, 1997.
A Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Oakland stack train roars through Ellerbeck along the former WP on June 17, 1994.
UP's eastbound local from Wendover, NV makes a pick up of cars out on the salt flats west of Salt Lake City, UT on the former Western Pacific Shafter Sub behind a trio of rebuilt SD40Ns.
UP 1996 on its first trip into Utah with UP 8336 and UP 1983