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HVRR 618 pulls a photo freight across the mouth of Provo Canyon below Deer Creek Reservoir on a cold and foggy morning, February 16, 2010.

Baldwin 2-8-0 Consolidation Locomotive 618 is enveloped in a cloud of steam as she releases a blast on her far side, 14 February 2010.

Oregon’s Talgo train ODOT-No.-1 makes a stop at Salt Lake Central, Utah on its way to Seattle for testing. The train was later renamed “Mount Jefferson”.

A lone gull scatters as UP 8513 rumbles toward the 17 South grade crossing, May 12, 2010 .

Heber Valley RR locomotive 618 pulls a photo freight past Charleston, Utah, milepost 1 of the former Denver & Rio Grande RR’s Provo to Heber City line, February 15, 2010.

Former Union Pacific Locomotive 618 @ Milepost 6 “Lone Tree Curve” of the Heber Valley Railroad, February 16, 2010.

On a sunny afternoon, June 14, 2013, UP4730 heads down Echo Canyon, Utah with a mixed load of containers and UPS piggybacks.

UP 7682 helps a double stack up Echo Canyon, near Echo Utah, May 18th, 2013.

UP 844 heads east up Weber Canyon, crossing the trestle over the Weber River at Strawberry on the 9th of November, 2012 at 8:38 a.m.!  She’s on her way home to Cheyenne, WY from Sacramento, CA having just departed Ogden’s Union Station at 8:00 a.m.   A few rail fans were up early on this cold November morning to greet her (though most  are out of view).  A couple weeks earlier she passed here heading west on a warm October afternoon and this same spot was swarming with fans. 

Neil Loveridge of  Rocky Mountain Outfitters, and his horse Roany, watch Heber Valley Railroad’s former Union Pacific No.618 round the bend at Soldier Hollow, Utah, on Feb. 15, 2010, on its Winter Photo Freight excursion.
Minolta Maxxum 9, SAL 70-200G, 1/360 f4.5 @200mm. Kodak Plus-X 125.