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A rare photo opportunity presented itself, and I took the bait. Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern (Erie Heritage) locomotives pull Union Pacific's Murdock, Utah - Shafter, Nevada ballast train, eastbound on the Salt Lake Route near Erda, Utah. 4.12.2023
Union Pacific's hot NPLAT pulls through Tooele Valley between Erda and Warner, Utah the afternoon of Jan. 30, 1993. The power lash-up includes UP SD60 No. 6062, SOO SD60 No. 6021, UP C40-8 No. 9139 and UP DDA40X No. 6936. The train consist includes six loads of HOGX "Farmer John" hog cars, a five-pack of well cars with K-Line containers, five auto rack loads, and a gaggle trailers on spine cars.
A colorful selection of EMDs pull a 78-car MPCYR on a 98 degree afternoon near Erda, Utah on July 23, 1999.
Complete with its trademark nose gong, Chicago & North Western SD40-2 No. 6907 leads an LAG1D container train between Erda and Lake Point, Utah on April 7, 1996. In the distance, across Tooele Valley are the Stansbury Mountains, including 11,035 ft. Deseret Peak.
Here’s another NPLAGE train, this time pulling 83 cars near Erda, Utah the morning of Aug. 6, 1995. In the background are Stansbury Island, the Great Salt Lake, the former Western Pacific main line, Interstate 80, and Stansbury Park. The bright red RJ Corman Railroad box cars were a welcome addition to the photograph.
An 'Operation Lifesaver' special glides along the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains near Erda, Utah on April 12, 2013.
Union Pacific's 2KG2LBD 25 pulls through Utah's Tooele Valley between Lake Point and Erda, Utah the evening of April 26, 2010.
A five-pack of clean EMDs pull the MNPWC 13 up a steady 0.8% grade between Erda and Warner on June 14, 2010.
An autumn snowstorm has blanketed the Oquirrh Mountains and Tooele Valley as an APLA5D stack train pulls westbound between Erda and Warner, Utah on Oct. 27, 1996.
Union Pacific 3340 and 3170 pull a nine car officer's special along a super elevated, 3 degree curve east of Erda, Utah on Oct. 23, 1994. I was expecting the streamlined E-units and was disappointed when SD40-2s came round the bend . . .
An autumn snowstorm has blanketed the Oquirrh Mountains and the Tooele Valley area as an APLA5D stack train pulls westward between Erda and Warner on Oct. 27, 1996. The train had a colorful mix of EMD SD40-2 locomotives, including CNW 6925 and CNW 6930 dressed in Operation Lifesaver livery.
A long hike from Bates Canyon Road yielded this photo of a Murdock to Ogden ballast train at the west switch Erda, Utah the evening of June 19, 2010. I looked carefully, and found no motels along Bates.
Union Pacific's KG3LB 16 container train ascends a 0.8% grade approaching Erda, Utah the evening of Sept. 18, 2010. The Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island are in the distance.
As shadows grow long on the Oquirrh Mountains, Union Pacific’s NPLAZ navigates the Lynndyl Sub main line between Lake Point and Erda, Utah the evening of July 14, 1995.
With Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake for a backdrop, Union Pacific's PRLAD (Proviso - Los Angeles) container train ascends the 0.8% along the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains approaching Erda, Utah the evening of Aug. 26, 1995.
After swapping five chicken feed empties for loads at the Fazzio egg farm in Erda, the “St. John Local” curves along the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains at Lake Point, Utah the evening of July 9, 1996.
With evidence of a grass fire which had recently scorched the slopes of the nearby Oquirrh Mountains, Union Pacific's Pocatello, Idaho to West Colton, California manifest climbs the 0.8% between Lake Point and Erda, Utah the evening of July 11, 2000.
A 12 car officers special, traveling between Council Bluffs, Iowa and West Colton, California, climbs the 0.8% grade of the Lynndyl Sub between Lake Point and Erda, Utah the morning of April 10, 2021.
A Wabtec rebuilt C44ACM locomotive leads a Black Thunder, Wyoming - Intermountain Power, Utah coal train through Tooele Valley between Erda and Warner, Utah the afternoon of June 17, 2023. A line of trees and brush mark the shore of Lake Bonneville, a 980 ft. deep, 20,000 square mile lake, which drained 18,000 years ago into what is now the Great Salt Lake.
Union Pacific SD70ACe-T4 No. 3067 leads a 74-car MNPML 25 auto train along the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains approaching Erda, Utah the morning of Aug. 27, 2021.
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Union Pacific SD40-2R No. 3134, CNW SD60 No. 8036 and UP C30-7 No. 2462 pull a 51-car North Platte, Nebraska to Mira Loma, California auto train through Utah's Tooele Valley west of Erda the afternoon of March 26, 1995.
Union Pacific SD70Ms No. 4526 and 4527 pull a nine-car officer's special through Tooele Valley near Erda, Utah the morning of Nov. 19. 2001. The units were showcasing a prototype of UP's newly introduced American Flag logo.
A trio of Union Pacific SD40-2s pull an 86-car Yermo-Pocatello merchandise train through Erda, Utah on a sunny Feb. 26, 1995 morning in Tooele Valley.
Union Pacific's Rio Grande Heritage SD70ACe leads a 130 car West Colton, California to Ogden, Utah manifest freight, passing through Tooele Valley at Erda, Utah the afternoon of Nov. 19, 2022. In the background are the scenic Oquirrh Mountains and below that, the vast sandy beach of Lake Bonneville, which disappeared 11,600 years ago.
Union Pacific SD40-2 No. 3529 leads a 73-car grain train between Lake Point and Erda, Utah the evening of Sept. 10, 1993. In the background are the steep slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains, including 9,065 ft. Farnsworth Peak, named for Philo T. Farnsworth, a Utah-born inventor who contributed to the early development of television.
Union Pacific’s hot NPLAZ navigates the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains near Erda, Utah the evening of Aug. 14, 1993.
Union Pacific's LAKCNS auto train passes the Fassio chicken feed elevator on the Lynndyl Sub in Erda, Utah the afternoon of June 22, 1996.
Chicago & North Western C44-9Ws No. 8700, 8715 and SD60 No. 8003 pull an 84 car 'dirty dirt' train up Erda Hill at 12 mph in Utah's Tooele Valley on July 26, 1996.
While the APLA ascends the former Los Angeles & Salt Lake Route, the APOA (pictured along the Great Salt Lake to the left of the 6297) rolls on the former Western Pacific mainline to Oakland on Feb. 24, 1995.
It's dinner time in Erda, Utah as the MNPWC 29 pulls west along the Oquirrh Mountain foothills the afternoon of Aug. 30, 2013.
Chicago & North Western C44-9W No. 8694 and Union Pacific SD9043MAC No. 8026 pull a 67-car North Platte to Los Angeles auto train through Lake Point, Utah the evening of May 10, 1997.
Chicago & North Western 8672 and 8667 pull the APLA5D just west of Erda, Utah the morning of Oct. 13, 1996. Antelope Island, Mount Ben Lomond of the Wasatch Mountains, the Great Salt Lake, and the Oquirrh Mountains are in the background.
Union Pacific C36-7 No. 9044 leads a 61 car Ogden to Yermo manifest freight westbound between Erda and Warner, Utah the evening of July 21, 1994.
Union Pacific SD40Ns No. 1635 and 1625 pull the LUE43 local into North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah the afternoon of March 13, 2014. The local freight spent the day working industries at Rio Tinto in Garfield, Fazzio Egg Farm in Erda, and the Peterson Industrial Depot in Tooele.
A small herd of cattle pay no mind to the loud freight train climbing the grade away from the Great Salt Lake basin on a perfect late spring evening. UP 7355 nears the crossing at Droubay Ln. south of Erda, UT with, presumably, a MOGWC.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 2005
A westbound UP container train climbs through Tooele Valley from the valley floor between Lake Point and Erda, Utah.
A variety of geographic features mark the background including Mount Ben Lomond, Antelope Island, the Great Salt Lake, and the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains.
UP 1943, the "Sprit of the Union Pacific' SD70AH lead a PLVOG2-17 officer's special on the historic Los Angeles & Salt Lake Route on March 16-17, 2018. The 20-car train is pictured rambling along the foothills of Oquirrh Mountains near Erda, Utah.
Union Pacific's priority Chicago to Los Angeles intermodal was the hottest train on the 'Salt Lake Route' when photographed between Erda and Warner (Tooele), Utah the morning of Oct. 13, 1996. If you look closely, an American President Lines stack train can be discerned in the background of the image, just above the cab of UP 3351. The Lynndyl Sub dispatcher tucked him away in the siding at Erda, in order to run the CHLAX around him while climbing the 0.8% grade to Stockton.
Union Pacific 7510, a 6000 horsepower AC6000CW locomotive, leads an eastbound container train through Tooele Valley near Erda, Utah the morning of April 18, 1999. The concept of a 6000 HP locomotive appealed to railroad companies at the time, but in practice it didn't work well. By May 2008, UP 7510 lost its original prime mover, replaced by a standard AC4400CW engine. At the same time, it was renumbered UP 6898 to make it fit within the C44AC fleet. 6898 is still active, currently working a westbound train through Idaho, on the road to Hinkle, Oregon.
Brand new EMD SD70ACe units No. 8674, 8676, and 8678 pull Union Pacific's KG3LB 19 through Erda, Utah the afternoon of Aug. 21, 2011. In the background are Stansbury Island and the Great Salt Lake.
Chicago & North Western C44-9W No. 8717 leads Union Pacific's APLA5 container train approaching Erda, Utah the morning of Sept. 24, 1995. Promontory Point, Antelope Island, and the Great Salt Lake were the perfect backdrop on a beautiful morning in Tooele Valley.
Union Pacific's 99-car YROG glides through Erda, Utah on a toasty, 87 degree Aug. 6, 1995 morning. The background has changed considerably in the past 25 years, with hundreds of new homes and businesses popping up along mountain foothills and the valley floor.
Union Pacific's APLA container train pulls westward between Erda and Warner on sunny but brisk 23° degree morning in Utah's Tooele Valley. This tangent of track is part of UP's historic Los Angeles & Salt Lake Route, about 32 miles west of downtown Salt Lake City. Nov. 26, 1993
A Wabtec C44ACM rebuild leads a Black Thunder, Wyoming to Intermountain Power, Utah coal train through Tooele Valley, between Erda and Warner, Utah on June 17, 2023.
Along the mountain, a line of trees and brush mark the former shore of Lake Bonneville, a 980 ft. deep, 20,000 square mile lake, which drained 18,000 years ago into what is now the Great Salt Lake.