With 65 cars and more than enough power to make the hill, Union Pacific's Salt Lake to Denver manifest climbs the former D&RGW 2% grade at Detour, Utah. In the power consist are two SD70ACe units,... (more)
Very little snow remains on the ground in Spanish Fork Canyon, but it's quite another story on the slopes of 10,687 ft. Mt. Loafer. Meanwhile, a Utah Railway coal empty blasts through Rio on it's ... (more)
On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load emerges from 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon.
A Union Pacific coal train zigs and zags through the 1983 realignment of the former D&RGW mainline just west of Rio, Utah. This Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal train had a nicely matched set of 80... (more)