A Union Pacific Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City passenger special snakes through Price Canyon on the former D&RGW mainline to Soldier Summit.
A Utah Railway IPP coal empty glides downgrade along the Price River approaching the Kyune Gooseneck on March 28, 2013.
Utah Railway's IPP to Wildcat coal empty rounds a 35 mph curve at CP RG640 Kyune on the morning of March 28, 2013. Note the D&RGW era searchlight signals that protect the CTC controlled switches, ... (more)
Snaking along the Price River, Rio Grande's daily Grand Junction to Roper mixed freight sinks its teeth into the 2.4% at Kyune. Relief is less than mile away when the gradient drops to 1%, relativ... (more)
DRGW 3116,5317,3098,3107 work upgrade toward Soldier Summit with coal loads. The trailing SD45 had overheated and shut down and this job was at a crawl.
Amtrak #6 bathes in the morning light at Kyune with one of the 40th anniversary engines on the point.
DRGW 3116,5317,3098,3107 team up to move a westbound coal train up Price River Canyon on the afternoon of June 8, 1990.
A BNSF trackage rights train cruises through the fresh snow at Kyune, UT on Soldier Summit.
Rio Grande GP40-2 3117 and 6 sisters squeal through the S-curve at Kyune as they climb the grade to Soldier Summit. Scanned from an original Kodachrome.
A loaded Utah Railway coal trains ascends the steep grade at Kyune.
The sun has poked through the clouds, and the rumbles of thunder to the east are droned out by the sound of MK5000C's and Aussie SD50's, which are on their knees, begging for the summit to come qu... (more)
Four of Utah's finest motors (two MK's bookending two Aussie SD50's) drag a heavy Utah coal train through the depths of the Price River Canyon.
Utah Railway coal loads start the run up Soldier Summit on a cold February day.
Crew change.