Salt Lake Garfield & Western's newest addition, FTRL 8201. I was pretty excited to get a decent shot of it. The Salt Lake Garfield & West can be a frustrating railroad to photograph. You can see t... (more)

UP 7239 at first light, with fresh paint, heading eastbound, at Smelter. The Kennecott Rio Tinto smelter can be seen in the back ground.

I was able to to catch Union Pacific 7239 with some very nice paint this morning. Not everyone was pleased with my picture taking. There was a homeless man underneath the bridge that didn't want m... (more)

I was able to catch this grain train on the Provo Sub after getting out of work. The old D&RGW main.

Thank goodness for beautiful lighting, fall colors, and a good looking second locomotive. Because I think they must of found Union Pacific 6579 laying on it side in a ditch. I guess you can say it... (more)

Golden hour. I was able to capture the LUE46 just before sunset with the SD70M's 4534 and 4241. Just from what I am seeing. there seems to be a bunch of SD70M's coming back in service. We had 70M'... (more)

UP 7704 rounds the curve with a Valmy coal train. This used to be a water shot. With years of drought all that is left is salt deposits. The Great Salt Lake has surpassed it's all time low level f... (more)

We got treated to UP 1982 bring an oil train through town today. The crew was taking the train to Helper, Utah. It was to be loaded on the Utah Railway main at Wildcat. Not sure how the logistic o... (more)

UP 7704, 6566, and DPU 8033, have really got this coal train moving on the Shafter Subdivision.

This Union Pacific officer special came into Salt Lake on the 19th, and is supposed to head out on the 21st. Word on the street is it's heading to Denver. I fired off a shot from one of the overpa... (more)

Sure nice to get to see these old geep's, earning their keep.

Once the Denver & Rio Grande main line to Ogden. The line of jointed rail is only active to Wood Cross as an industrial leads. The line was destroyed between 1983 and 1985 during flooding. Rio Gra... (more)

Getting good smoke has become a lot harder to get these days. So I was pretty happy to catch the geep's being operated by Rail Serve putting on a show. They are getting their train up and going fo... (more)

I was able to sneak out of work for a minute the other day, and catch the CNW heritage unit passing by. Thanks to the railfan community, it was some very efficient railfanning.

Feeling pretty luck on this one. On my way to work this morning. There was 3 or 4 westbounds stacked up between Smelter and Garfield. This one caught my attention, with the SD70ACe-T4 on the point... (more)