This scene is at the Canyon Coal Company’s Skyline Mine flood loader high up on the Wasatch Plateau in Utah. Elevation here is over 8000’. The mine is out of sight, on the left, up a canyon a... (more)

In spite of the BNSF leader this coal train is a Union Pacific train. My source for this info. was the loader operator. The photo was taken at the flood loader of the Skyline Mine, 16 miles south ... (more)

Union Pacific #5787 has just arrived at the Skyline loadout and is now pulling its empty train through the flood loader. It will cut off and run back to the former rear end on an adjacent run-arou... (more)

This Union Pacific empty coal train is just about to enter tiny (population 22) Scofield, Utah. It’s destination is the Skyline loadout about 4 miles or so past Scofield at an elevation of 8000â... (more)

This loaded Union Pacific coal train has just left the Skyline loadout and is now entering the tiny town of Scofield, Utah; elevation 7739’ and population 23. The train will skirt Scofield Reser... (more)

UP #8089 leads empties down the Pleasant Valley Sub as they approach the flood loader at Skyline (Eccles Canyon).

A BNSF manifest, clears snow near Scofield, Utah, on a cold January day.

It's 8:03AM, and 6 degrees Fahrenheit, in Scofield Utah, at an elevation of 7,739 feet. Amtrak's train number 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, is barreling through a fresh dusting of snow, just... (more)

It’s not every day that you see a one car train with three units for power in Utah coal country. It’s even more unusual when the train has a 4 axle GP40P-2 leading. There were only 3 of this m... (more)

Welcome to Beautiful Pleasant Valley

A Southern Pacific AC4400CW leads an Intermountain Power to Skyline coal train along the shoreline of Scofield Reservoir on June 23, 1997.

After dropping off a train of coal empties at Valley Camp, the Pleasant Valley Local passes Scofield Dam on its return to Helper Yard.

Not too often you get unblemished pristine Snow. This was a challenging train chase for me. This was my second shot. This one I had to not get my truck stuck on the access road. I drove as far as ... (more)

With total winter conditions at 7600 feet, nearing the town of Scofield, Utah. The landscape around the Pleasant Valley branch is blanketed with deep snow, and a ominous winter sky, it's a real wi... (more)

This is the flood loader and coal storage silo at Skyline, Utah at the end of the 19 mile long Union Pacific Pleasant Valley Subdivision. Elevation here is over 8000 feet. This slightly overpowere... (more)