Here Looking at You...

Little River Railroad runs an excursion train from Coldwater to Quincy, Michigan. Here is their locomotive #1 in Quincy about to pull our train back to Coldwater. 

Well your a strange little guy...

This strange locomotive sits in Clinton, Michigan on the Michigan Southern Railway which is non-profit tourist operation that this year is only running during the fall color season.

Ghost Locomotive

A locomotive painted all white sits in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Stopping for some Hardee's

A Union Pacific locomotive sits while its crew visits Hardee's in Waterloo, Iowa.

Iowa Northern Train in Waterloo, Iowa

Iowa Northern train led by locomotive 1501 leads a train on a cloudy Sunday afternoon a year ago on July 15, 2016 Waterloo, Iowa.

Anyone want a locomotive?

Abandoned Locomotive, a photo by Dornoff Photography on Flickr.

This locomotive belongs to the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad. The railroad has been shut down since a devastating storm a few years ago.

Apparently this locomotive was abandoned in Timber, Oregon since that day.

Heber Valley 1011

Heber Valley 1011
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Yes, here is another photo taken from the Heber Valley Railroad.

This shot is of locomotive 1011 which formally belonged to the Union Pacific Railroad and is the only active locomotive in their fleet that has not been painted into the Denver, Rio Grande and Western inspired Orange and Black paint scheme.

Heber Valley Locomotive 1218

Heber Valley Locomotive 1218
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Here is another one of the locomotives of the Heber Valley Railroad that I photographed while walking around the tourist Railroad's facilities.

Our Train

Our Train
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

My last couple of entries I shown some photos from the Heber Valley Railroad that I took before our train left. What I have not show you is a photo of our actual train so here it is.

The train included the former Union Pacific locomotive, caboose, two open air cars, an enclosed coach, and a combine car that was used as a snack shop.

When we first go on we sat in the enclosed coach but very shortly I moved out to the first open air car and stayed there for most of the trip.

On the way back the caboose was at the end of the train I spent a majority of the trip on the back platform which was a great place to take pictures.

Heber Valley 1813

Heber Valley 1813
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Here is another photo taken on Saturday during my visit to the Heber Valley Railroad.

This photo is of locomotive 1813 which has been used in several of the railroads promotional shots but in its previous paint scheme which was black with a red stripe as opposed to the Denver, Rio Grande & Western inspired scheme it currently has.

Missing Parts...

Missing Parts...
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

Yesterday my wife along with several members of her family took a trip on the Heber Valley Railroad which travels from the city of Heber which is just southeast of Park City on US Highway 40 down to Provo Canyon.

While waiting for the train to leave I took the opportunity to walk around and take some pictures. I came across this locomotive that had been stripped of parts sitting along side a former road crossing signal that has also been stripped of parts.

I thought the two pieces of equipment complimented eachother well in the photograph along with the older passenger car in the background.

Mighty Engine of the Past...

UP Gas Turbine on Display in Ogden
Originally uploaded by Dornoff Photography

This photo is of a Union Pacific Gas Turbine engine that UP used sometime in the late 50's through the 60's. UP was looking for massive horsepower in order to pull its trains along its main line especially through Wyoming.

These engines only had one minor little problem. Or one big problem if you lived near the tracks as they were extremely noisy. So noisy in fact that many municipalities banned the use of the locomotives in their area (of course didn't that interfere with interstate commerce so became a federal issue?).

I took my first revenue ride on Front Runner one day then rode some buses in order to get pictures of the area. Finally I came back to Union Station before heading back to the transit center in order to ride Front Runner back to Salt Lake City.

It was a very hot and unusually humid day with temperatures reaching 95 degrees and the humidity level following close behind. While I may have lived in Charlotte for a couple of years that as several years ago and I was not used to the heat and humidity anymore. I was glad to get back on that nice cool Front Runner train.