Another of my dads, Tom Ellis' pictures, with me as a five year old standing by the crossing sign, taking pictures with my toy camera. UP 3674 with steal coils from Geneva Steel. Has a pretty cool... (more)

In a bizarre twist, Union Pacific leased two of McCloud River SD38's in 1988. UP L can be seen on the nose of the locomotives. They are on track-age that has now been dormant for about 18 years. T... (more)

With a mix of double stacks, auto racks, and general freight, SP SD40T-2 No. 8492, SP SD45T-2R No. 6850, and UP SD40-2 No. 3632 pull a Herrington, Kansas to Roper, Utah manifest freight through Ri... (more)

Rio Grande SD50s No. 5513 and 5502 pull a 65 car Alton & Southern (East St. Louis, Illinois) to Roper (South Salt Lake, Utah) manifest freight through Riverton, Utah on June 16, 1994.

A First Union Rail SD40-2 leads a colorful Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight at Riverton on Aug. 24, 2000. Also in the consist: MKCX SD40M-2 No. 9014, CSX C40-8W No. 7858, UP SD40-2 No. 37... (more)

Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway SD40-2 No. 7816 leads a 75 car Denver, Colorado to Stockton, California trackage rights manifest on Union Pacific rails at Riverton, Utah on Aug. 30, 2002.

Utah Railway's RUT612 local (Ogden to Provo) roars eastward via trackage rights on the Union Pacific at Riverton with 16 cars for Provo Yard. The power includes a pair of Great Western Railway lea... (more)

A pair of new EMD SD70Ms pull a 28 car Denver to Salt Lake City UPS train west through Riverton on August 11, 2000.

The low roar of two 20-cylinder EMD prime movers followed closely by the staccato ratcheting of a GE C30-7 fill the air in rural Salt Lake County as SP's Eugene, Oregon to Chicago, Illinois Q-trai... (more)

What could be better than classic EMD tunnel motors pulling boxcars? SP's Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Roper, Utah manifest freight is about 10 miles from its final final destination in South Salt Lake... (more)

Union Pacific C40-8 No. 9164 and SD40-2 No. 3048 pull a 32 car ZDVRO through Riverton on June 29, 2000.

A quartet of former Southern Pacific locomotives tow Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight west along the former Rio Grande at Riverton on June 9, 2000.

The engineer working Southern Pacific's Roper to Grand Junction manifest freight looks over his shoulder and inspects his train passing through Riverton with 70 cars on Aug. 26, 1994.

Union Pacific's MDVRO manifest freight crosses Willow Creek just west of Riverton on Sept. 21, 1999. The 65 car train is lead by MPI rebuilt SD40M-2 No. 8641, built new by EMD as Chesapeake & Ohio... (more)

Three years after the UP-SP merger it was possible (although uncommon) to catch an all SP power consist. SP 8365 and SP 8626 drag a Roper to Provo turn through the Salt Lake Valley with 70 cars fo... (more)