A westbound Utah Railway coal train storms to the top of the extensive grade over Soldier Summit, Utah, on February 1, 2007. The train is led by a quartet of unique EMD/MK50-3 locomotives.

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Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Decker’s Bay with a freight amid the snowy splendor of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains in winter on February 7, 2006. The train is running alongside an ice-covered Deer Creek Reservoir on Utah’s scenic Heber Valley Railroad.

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With late season thunderstorms rumbling over the Book Cliffs in the background, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches Mounds, Utah, late on the afternoon of November 21, 2003. Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors Nos. 5390, 5371 and 5349 bracket a UP SD40-2 for power, and the train will soon be at the junction of the Sunnyside Branch at West Mounds, ready to head west on the Green River Subdivision to Helper.

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Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors push on a westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train at Kyune, Utah, climbing the eastern grade of Soldier Summit. Passing the helpers is lone Utah Railway EMD SD40 No. 9008 that is headed back to Martin after pushing a Utah Railway coal train up the grade. The middle Tunnel Motor is painted in SP speed lettering, but is still sublettered DRGW 5368.

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After switching Mounds, Utah, at sunrise, the dirt train heads toward East Carbon past low morning light and “John Ford movie-like” desert buttes. Leading the train are three Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors, Nos. 5371, 5349 and 5390. At this point, there were only five D&RGW Tunnel Motors left on the Union Pacific in Rio Grande colors and numbers. So, here is the majority on October 8, 2004.

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