What's New at UtahRails.net
[Most recent entry listed first.]
July 20, 2008
Added new page for green boilers on D&RGW steam locomotives.
Added new page for Russian Iron steam locomotive boiler jackets.
July 12, 2008
Added new page that documents the history of western railfan publications.
July 3, 2008
Rearranged the information for the coal mines at Sunnyside and the Kaiser unit coal trains. The Sunnyside mine was sold in 1943 to Kaiser Steel, and was then dedicated solely to shipping coal to Kaiser's steel plant in Fontana, Calif., including the operation of one of the first unit coal trains in the nation, from 1968 through 1983.
May 16, 2008
Added a new page for Huslers Mill, a location on UP's Provo Subdivision at about 3000 South in Salt Lake City.
Added new page about Salt Lake County's street naming methods in pioneer times.
May 15, 2008
Updated the pages for copper and lead smelters.
May 11, 2008
Added new page about UP's steam tender Water Cars, previously part of the passenger car rosters.
May 10, 2008
Added new pages for the railroads of Charles W. Scofield, including Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd, Wasatch & Jordan Valley, and Utah & Pleasant Valley. These three roads formed the basis for D&RGW's entry into Utah in 1881. All of these pages are definitely works in progress.
April 13, 2008
Rearranged and reorganized the pages for Industries and Mining.
Added new page for Utah Ore Sampling Company.
April 7, 2008
Added new group of pages for the Bamberger Railroad.
March 30, 2008
Added new pages for Union Pacific steam locomotive assignments for 1949 and 1950, based on lists published more than 20 years ago in The Streamliner in 1985 and 1986. This was done to correlate locomotive assignments with passenger locomotives painted two-tone gray.
March 18, 2008
Added new pages about Union Pacifc's steam locomotive painting and lettering, including the eras before and after 1937, and the two-tone gray used on passenger steam locomotives from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s.
March 9, 2008
Added "When Thistle Vanished," an article by Hol Wagner about the Thistle slide of April 1983, taken from Trains magazine, July 1983. (used with the author's permission)
March 1, 2008
Broke-out the Western Railroad Properties, Inc. (WRPI) information from the Union Pacific Corporate History page to a new WRPI page, with additional information about WRPI, the joint UP/C&NW coal line into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
Added new page (with map) describing the joint UP/C&NW "Project Yellow," lifted from the September 1984 issue of The Mixed Train.
February 23, 2008
Added transcribed article about Grant Tower from the March 1954 issue of Railway Signaling & Communications magazine. The article describes the function and details of the building, tracks, and signaling used in the then-new Grant Tower interlocking. (a copy of the article itself was furnished by Mark Hemphill in 1994)
February 3, 2008
Added new page about Union Pacific's Salt Lake City passenger depot.
January 31, 2008
Added new listing of canneries and canning companies in Utah, to go along with the history of canning in Utah.
January 26, 2008
Added four articles by Preston Cook: EMD's 567 Engine, EMD Technical Publications, Winton 201A Diesel Engine, and USS Atlanta's Winton Diesel Engine.
Added new photo album for details of a D&RGW narrow gauge boxcar and gondola.
January 12, 2008
Added new page for Emigration Canyon Railroad, mostly scanned from "Interurbans of Utah".
December 27, 2007
Added a photo album for Western Pacific's SW1500 locomotives. The photos were scanned for a separate project, and I decided to share them here.
Added several photos of Copper Belt Shay locomotives to the Bingham Canyon photo album.
December 23, 2007
Updated the information on the Union Pacific Corporate History page, for Saratoga & Encampment Valley Railroad, which became UP's Encampment Branch between Walcott and Saratoga, Wyoming.
December 16, 2007
Added new pages for Utah Northern Railroad of 1871, and Utah & Northern Railway of 1878; both pages include locomotive rosters based largely on the research of George Pitchard.
Added new page with rosters of the buses of UTA (to 1987) and its predecessor companies. These rosters are based on listings in the Motor Coach Age articles about the history of bus transit in Utah.
Added new page about Salt Lake City's trolley coaches, also known as trackless trolleys. Scanned from Bus World magazine.
December 12, 2007
Added new page for Utah Eastern Railroad of 1879.
December 8, 2007
Updated the UP Double Diesel article to include information about RCS-equipped UP 82 and 82B.
December 1, 2007
Updated the information for Utah Railway's GP40s, adding their newest number 3002.
October 16, 2007
Rearranged the UTA TRAX light rail and Frontrunner commuter rail pages to make them a bit more user friendly.
Added a new page about the Central Utah Rail Project, a proposed 43 mile rail line from Levan to Salina to haul coal.
October 15, 2007
Completed updates for Heber Valley Historic Railroad, and the listing of their equipment.
October 10, 2007
Added Garrie Tufford's comments about a supposed "Gold Spike" event for San Pete Valley Railway on May 1, 1886.
September 30, 2007
Added a new page for Garrie Tufford's "William Mason's ONWARD", about the little locomotive that played an important part in the development of Utah railroads.
September 26, 2007
Rearranged pages with equipment rosters of Ogden Union Station and Heber Valley Historic Railroad.
Added new page for Dale Angell's history of John W. Young's Salt Lake & Eastern Railway.
September 21, 2007
Added a new page about Savage Bingham & Garfield Railroad, which is projected to take over the freight operations along UP's former D&RGW Bingham Branch between Midvale and the Bagley Industrial Park, and the former D&RGW Garfield Branch between Welby (on the Bingham Branch) and Magna.
September 11, 2007
Rearranged the Utah Railway diesel roster pages to include a more useful index; included was quite a bit of cleanup of the unseen code.
September 5, 2007
Reorganized the UtahRails index page, and added new index pages for Utah railroad-related Industries, and its railroad-related Mining.
August 31, 2007
Reinstated the sounds of SP's F-M Train Masters. Thanks to Rob Sarberenyi for the gentle reminder that they had been missed in the most recent reorganization of the web site.
August 26, 2007
Added a new page about the history and on-going improvements in the Grant Tower interchange in Salt Lake City.
August 19, 2007
Added new pages about the Utah Idaho Central Railroad, which ran north from Ogden to Preston, Idaho.
August 1, 2007
Deleted George Pitchard's "Utah Railroads Scrapbook" manuscript, at his request.
July 13, 2007
Split the Columbia-Geneva steel page into separate Columbia Steel and Geneva Steel pages.
July 4, 2007
Updated the locomotive roster data for the Geneva steel works.
July 1, 2007
Updated entries for Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific on UP Corporate History page.
June 24, 2007
Added new page for Salt Lake & Western Railway, the line built in 1881 that became UP's Fairfield Branch between Lehi and Tintic. Includes roster information for the road's only locomotive.
June 7, 2007
Added a new feature of Google Maps for the three ex WP branches in Utah. (Scroll down to the entries for branches for links to each map.)
May 30, 2007
Rearranged UP passenger car rosters to breakout the non-UP cars that were painted yellow and gray. Previously, these were part and parcel of the UP listings.
May 18, 2007
Added a new page about the Heber Creeper and Heber Valley Historic Railroad, being a compilation of notes and source data about the Heber Creeper (1970 to 1993) and Heber Valley Historic Railroad (1993 to today) tourist railroad that operates in Utah's Provo Canyon. (I still have a thick file folder of additional information to add.)
May 15, 2007
Added U.S. Steel Geneva roster to the roster index page.
April 21, 2007
Reorganized the Utah Coal index page, and added a new web page for Intermountain Power Project.
April 20, 2007
Added new page for Utah Railway employee timetables
April 14, 2007
Added photo album for today's tour of UTA's Warm Springs shop in Salt Lake City. A hearty thanks to Bryan Sawyer for being our tour guide.
April 12, 2007
Added new page about Southern Utah Railroad, the coal hauling line between Price and Hiawatha that was taken over and replaced by Utah Railway. The line operated three rod steam locomotives, a Shay, and the largest McKeen car ever built.
April 10, 2007
Added new page about St. John & Ophir Railroad and its two Climax geared locomotives. The standard gauge line was 8.5 miles long and was in operation between 1912 and 1928, between St. John on the LA&SL, and the mines in Ophir Canyon.
April 9, 2007
Added new page for New East Tintic Railway, builder of UP's Mammoth Branch in the Tintic Mining District, and the original operator of Union Pacific's only Shay locomotives.
March 23, 2007
Added a new photo album for the diesel locomotives of Geneva Steel. Also fixed the display of all of the photo albums to be centered on the screen..
March 11, 2007
Added new page for Kenilworth & Helper Railway, a Shay-operated line in Carbon County, in service from 1907-1926 to bring coal from the Kenilworth mine to a connection on D&RGW's line near Helper. It was abandoned in 1926 and replaced by D&RGW's newly constructed Kenilworth Branch.
March 2, 2007
Added a new page for the Copper Belt Railway, a Shay-operated railroad located in Bingham Canyon, in service from 1901 to 1908, then as D&RGW branches until 1926. This page also includes a roster listing of the Copper Belt's five Shay locomotives.
Added a new page for the Deep Creek Railroad, a subsidiary of Western Pacific Railway that operated south from Wendover, Nev., for 45 miles to Gold Hill, Utah, hauling copper and gold ores from 1917 to 1939.
February 23, 2007
Added new pages for Utah's shortline railroads, and Utah's industrial railroads. This last group includes separate web pages for the former U. S. Steel plants at Ironton, at Geneva, and the former U. S. Steel coal washing plant near Wellington.
January 30, 2007
Added new page about Utah & Nevada Railway, the UP-controlled narrow gauge line west from Salt Lake City, built in 1874 and abandoned in 1903 to make way for UP's standard gauge Leamington Cutoff.
Added new page about the four Shay locomotives of Little Cottonwood Transportation Co., and Alta Scenic Railway.
January 27, 2007
Added new page about Tooele Valley Railway, including both a steam locomotive roster and a diesel locomotive roster.
January 18, 2007
Added new page about How Sandy Got Its Name.
Finished recovering from a crashed hard drive (the third in three years), that happened on the morning of December 25. The result is a new Intel iMac computer that replaced the four-year-old Dell PC.
December 22, 2006
Added new pages for Little Cottonwood Canyon and Granite For The Temple. Both pages are still works in progress.
December 11, 2006
Added an index page for Streetcars and Trolleys , with separate links for Salt Lake City's and Ogden's streetcar systems.
I am finding that as I dig deeper into my collection of boxes, three-ring binders, and files full of notes, notes, and more notes, I don't have a place to share all the information that I have collected over the past 30 years. I'll slowly be adding pages such as the above, as a place to share this information.
October 23, 2006
Added several articles about Salt Lake City trolley coaches and buses, including history of Salt Lake City Lines and Utah Transit Authority. This is all to tie in an upcoming history of Salt Lake City's streetcars, with what replaced them in the mid 1940s.
Added a photo album for Salt Lake City Trolley Coaches.
October 1, 2006
Added web pages about UTA Bus History, in the form of scanned text from the four-part article from the Motor Bus Society's Motor Coach Age magazine.
Edited and added to the Oil Industry page.
September 21, 2006
Added new page for Utah's Oil Industry, including the refineries which are a source of traffic for Utah's railroads. (incomplete; research continues)
Added new page for Utah's Iron Industry, including the iron mines and iron and steel plants which are a source of traffic for Utah's railroads. The Iron Mountain area is currently the focus of development by Paladin Ventures, and its new Utah Southern Railroad, an operation that is leasing UP's Comstock Subdivision. (incomplete; research continues)
Added new page for the Western Utah Copper District, the home of Newhouse, Copper Gulch and Sevier Lake Railroad and its Shay locomotive. The district is currently the focus of development by Western Utah Copper Corporation. (incomplete; research continues)
Added new page for Granite For The Temple, information about the granite quarries at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, and the movement of granite for the construction of the LDS Salt Lake City temple, and later, the Utah state capital. (incomplete; research continues)
September 16, 2006
Updated the UP dieselization story to include new information about UP's testing of EMD's F3 locomotives in November 1945 between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, and east out of Ogden on the Wasatch grade.
September 9, 2006
Added 1950 UP Passenger Train Consists as part of a larger project of adding other train consists as they become available.
September 4, 2006
Added new page for today's Utah Central Railway.
September 2, 2006
Added the 1984 version of UP's Great Big Rollin' Railroad theme song.
September 1, 2006
Added new page for Deseret Western Railway.
Updated page for Carbon County Railway.
August 20, 1996
Added new pages Southern Pacific and the Great Salt Lake and Recollections at Lakeside, articles first published in Western Railroader.
August 19, 2006
Updated UP in Utah, SP in Utah, D&RGW in Utah, and WP in Utah to include information about Grant Tower construction starting in 1944, and ICC order in 1947 for automatic block systems.
August 13, 2006
Added UTA Frontrunner Commuter Rail status page. Lots of work yet to do on this one, but at least there is a basic listing.
August 4, 2006
Work on UP Passenger Cars roster resumed after a major data source has become available.
Added updates to Harriman car listings.
Updated and rearranged SP Utah Stations page.
July 13, 2006
Added a new page for Amtrak in Utah.
July 9, 2006
Updated UP paint scheme information and UP roster information.
Added new page for UP's SD40-2 Life Extension program, started in late 1990, and ending in late 1999. Also included are lists of all units completed, sorted by road number and by completion date.
Work on the passenger car rosters is stalled, pending preparation of some important source material.
June 28, 2006
Updated and rearranged the UP Corporate History page, adding several dates that now have proper source citations.
June 25, 2006
Added information to both the UTA TRAX light rail page, and the UTA Frontrunner commuter rail page.
June 12, 2006
Updated UTA Frontrunner page to include news about new locomotives.
May 9, 2006
Updated the UtahRails.net Photo Albums; see also the UtahRails.net photo albums at PBase.com.
I have also set up a photo album to share some Utah railroading photos by James Belmont. James always takes great photos, and with his permission, I wanted to share as many of his photos as possible, all in one place.
April 23, 2006
Lots of minor editing on UP's passenger cars, mostly to bring all groups into a common format. Work continues on building the linked main index listings for the numbered cars and the other large groups, including the Heritage fleet and the business cars.
April 6, 2006
Added new web pages for UTA's Trax light rail, FrontRunner commuter rail, and some upcoming history of UTA's buses.
March 15, 2006
Added a new page describing Union Pacific's miniature train, used by the railroad at public events like parades, public open houses and Family Days. (Link removed because this will be an article for UPHS's The Streamliner.)
Work continues on UP's passenger cars.
March 6, 2006
Fixed the access to the UP Great Big Rollin' Railroad theme song.
March 1, 2006
For the past three weeks, work has been progressing to add a complete roster of Union Pacific Steel and Streamliner Passenger Cars. This remains a work in progress, with lots of work still to be done. But at least the basics are there…
February 2, 2006
Work continues on updating the UP diesel roster, and other UP-related information.
January 29, 2006
Added access to a page about UP's GP7 locomotives, made up of photo research and comments about the unique features UP's GP7s had, including their high exhaust stacks, lowered number boards, and special signal lights.
The work needed to validate all pages at UtahRails.net to the current World Wide Web XHTML 1.0 Strict standard has been completed.
January 27, 2006
Work continues on preparing all pages to validate to the World Wide Web standards for XHTML Strict, which should make them enduring in their formatting and presentation for the next several years. This has been an excellent example of the need for clean coding in the first place. Our modern browsers are pretty forgiving when it comes to glossing over bad code, such as no closing tags, or the odd closing tag when there is no opening tag. The "Strict" variation is helping me to find and correct a lot of problems. Of the over 850 pages on this web site, there are just over 50 files that still need work.
December 31, 2005
Added UP's Tintic Branches and Shay Locomotives, the original, unedited text used for an article published as "UP's Tintic Subdivision" in The Streamliner, Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2005. The Streamliner is the quarterly publication of Union Pacific Historical Society, and the article in The Streamliner includes 32 photos (three in color, plus the color cover), and seven maps, along with locomotive diagrams, timetable entries, and track profiles of the branches where UP ran its Shay locomotives.
December 28, 2005
Added commentary by Scott Chatfield on the subject of EMD Geeps, lifted from postings to The Diesel List during 2000-2003.
December 14, 2005
The update of the current UP diesel locomotive roster is complete. All known renumberings and retirements, through October 2005, have been incorporated. I'll try to keep the roster up to date, using the monthly changes posted to various internet news groups.
December 10, 2005
Cleaned up the Links page to update links, and remove dead links.
December 2, 2005
Recovered from a dead computer, which developed a corrupt hard drive file system, Master Boot Record, and partition table on November 23, 2005. Additional downtime for attendant scanners and external hard drives came after recovery from underpowered USB slots. See Tech Talk for more details.
November 17, 2005
Work continues on the updates to the Union Pacific current roster. Most updates are small and include retirement and renumber dates. There have been numerous corrections to typographical errors, along with rewriting of several general notes and individual unit notes.
Reinstated access to the Locomotive Dealers and Scrappers page, which was removed back in May 2005. I have added the Google Adsense service to the page to see if the visitors are seriously looking for locomotive dealers and components, or if they are simply lurking on the fringe. I was getting hundreds of hits every month from all over the world, from people and companies about used locomotives and locomotive components, inquiring about either the locomotives and components that I buy and sell (which I do neither), or about being added to my free listing.
August 21, 2005
Added a new page about the history of DuPont’s Duco lacquer and Dulux Enamel paints. Research continues about the use of Duco and Dulux in the railroad industry. Most available information deals almost solely with the difficulty of matching the historic DuPont colors, and documenting the specific DuPont color numbers.
August 6, 2005
Updated print publications page to include the availability of the newly published expanded and improved hardbound edition of Ogden Rails, published by Union Pacific Historical Society.
August 5, 2005
Added new roster pages, and updated other pages, to include UP’s newest EMD SD70M and SD70ACe locomotives.
August 4, 2005
Added UP roster entries, with delivery dates and builder data when known, for all the new GE locomotives delivered since 2001, numbered as UP 5354-6081. I will try to keep these updated as they are delivered.
August 3, 2005
Added batch number column to newer GE locomotives to allow frame check data to be entered and maintained. Initial checks are courtesy of Norm Metcalf.
July 14, 2005
Updated the builder’s dates and delivery dates for new units delivered after about 1999, to reflect known delivery dates and builder’s dates as they are checked on the actual locomotive. This is a precursor to an update of all changes to UP’s diesel fleet from January 2001 through mid 2005.
Work is also progressing on building an on-line version of an all-time roster of Union Pacific’s steel and Streamliner passenger cars, from the Harriman-style cars beginning in 1909, through to the newest lightweight cars of the 1960s, along with UP’s current Heritage fleet.
June 19, 2005
Minor updates to UP modern-era locomotive index to show new locomotives delivered after 2002.
Updated the narrative for Union Pacific’s use of yellow frame stripes, the newest variation to the standard paint scheme for UP’s modern locomotives.
Several minor formatting changes to roster index pages to support features of CSS page layout standards.
June 17, 2005
Made the SP Promontory Branch separate from the full SP in Utah Stations List.
Added some Lucin Cutoff dates to the SP In Utah Chronology, based on source data from John Sweetser.
June 16, 2005
Completed the update of the SP in Utah Stations List, adding information about changing mile post numbers, and descriptions of individual sidings/stations. Also added data from employee timetables about mile post numbers, siding and spur capacity, and single track/double track status of mainline.
June 13, 2005
Updated the SP in Utah Stations List, adding information about changing mile post numbers, and descriptions of individual sidings/stations.
Removed the special "Printer Friendly" feature, which was a special javascript. It was replaced by a dedicated CSS stylesheet for print media. Now, all you have to do is print the web page, and the output it is specially formatted for printing, rather than for screen viewing.
June 7, 2005
Updated the SP in Utah Stations List, including additional information furnished by Ron Boham, Bob McKeen, Bruce Morden, and Joe Strapac.
June 4, 2005
Added three new research papers, written while I was a student at University of Utah: Railroads of North Africa; Railroads of Central and Southern Africa; and Union Pacific Land Grants.
Updated the SP in Utah chronology history, and the SP in Utah Stations List.
May 28, 2005
Added two new photo albums, both using photos by Jason Arnot: Utah Railway and trains in Helper, Utah
May 23, 2005
Completed a redesign of the web site’s menu, from a full CSS left-side menu, to a new CSS top menu. The previous left-side menu, uploaded on May 7, had issues with the way Internet Explorer displayed the locomotive rosters, which are the most visited pages on the entire site. With the new top menu, the rosters now display properly.
Removed the Locomotive Dealers and Scrappers page. I have been getting way too many requests, 100s of hits every month from all over the world, from people and companies about used locomotives and locomotive components, inquiring about either the locomotives and components that I buy and sell (which I do neither), or about being added to my free listing. It was never meant to be a commercial listing. Here is a great business opportunity, for someone else.
May 11, 2005
Added a new page listing for Southern Pacific stations in Utah, everything east of Montello, Nev.
May 7, 2005
Completed a redesign of the entire site, using CSS layout to replace the old table layout. If you use Firefox, get Chris Pedrick’s web developer extension and take a look at the source code and the CSS file. Now the work starts to get all pages to validate as XHTML. Let me know of any broken pages.
April 28, 2005
Completed a new left-side menu, wherein I replaced the old, bloated Java script, with a much cleaner unordered list with CSS style. This makes the page load much faster. It validates in CSS and in HTML 4.01, and works in Firefox/Mozilla and in IE.
April 17, 2005
Added dates for repainting of former MKT GP40s from their original red scheme to the newer green and yellow scheme - MKT 205 was the first, in May 1972 and MKT 173 was the last, in July 1980. (information from John Merman, via Norm Metcalf)
March 27, 2005
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah, 1908-1988 page to include an April 1968 reference about the Ogden gateway case.
March 22, 2005
Updated the Print Publications page to include the availability of Diesels of the Union Pacific, The Classic Era, Volume 2.
March 20, 2005
Updated the DDA40X Centennial article to include information from Dave Krumenacker in Pocatello, Idaho.
Updated the SD40X (UP 3040-3047) pages: here and here
Updated the H20-44 roster to include later donations of ex UP 1366 and 1369 to museums.
March 9, 2005
Updated the UP in Utah, 1900-1996 page to include the construction of the Little Mountain Branch in 1969.
Updated the UP in Utah, 1996 to today page to include the last operations over the Little Mountain Branch in December 1997, and eventual conversion to trail use in June 2002.
Updated the roster entries for ex D&RGW SD45s 5331 and 5339 to include their operations in Colorado as DAIR 2701 and 2801 for Andesite Gravel Co.
March 8, 2005
Updated the Print Publications page to show that my Union Pacific, 1934-1982, Volume 2 book is now available.
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah 1908-1988 page to include the date of the last train on the Park City Branch in January 1956, based on a newspaper clipping furnished by Dave Gayer.
Updated the UP in Utah, 1996 to today page to include some operations in 2003 and 2004.
March 7, 2005
Added new updates and revisions to the George Pitchard Utah Railroads Scrapbook manuscript. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
Added a new Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive Features page.
January 3, 2005
Updated the information for Test Cars 400 and 401, remodeled from ex Rock Island cabooses 24531 and 24540, based on recently received Union Pacific data. The roster listing is here; the narrative is here (scroll to the bottom).
December 13, 2004
I just found out the "Contact Me" feature wasn't actually sending me any email. It was sending a confirmation to the sender, but I wasn't getting anything. (Oops.) It was a problem with my web service provider’s anti-spam set up. It’s fixed now. If anyone sent me a comment or correction, please try again.
November 25, 2004 (Thanksgiving)
Still working on Union Pacific passenger cars. Like any project, this one is turning out to be bigger than I initially thought.
Working on some updates to George Pitchard’s Utah Railroads Scrapbook.
For the geeks: Now that I'm using FireFox as my default browser, I noticed that this page was broke. So, I've been doing a bit of HTML cleanup, including the above right ChangeDetection feature. This whole page now validates properly.
November 16, 2004
I am back after having my home computer die for five days. It was either some sort of spyware that took over the computer’s resources, or a power glitch that fried some part of the hard drive. Whatever it was, it killed the poor thing and I had to reformat the hard drive. Of course, I had backups, but I lost all my configuration files, and I am still reinstalling all the programs. At the same time, I have taken the opportunity to upgrade to Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, and Microsoft Office 2003. I have also installed the Sokkit installation suite for Apache HTTP Server and PHP.
I have also updated the Union Pacific modern era roster to include Norm Metcalf’s wonderful builder plate checks for the past six months. Thanks Norm.
October 18, 2004
Updated the Utah Coal page for Sunnyside, to incorporate information from April 1897 about the initial coal mine at Sunnyside. This research was done with the new Utah Digital Newspapers web site.
September 24, 2004
Why nothing new? My time for the past three weeks, and likely for at least the next month or so, is being taken by work on a roster of UP’s steel passenger cars, including the heavyweights, the Harriman cars, the train set cars of 1934-1937, and all the lightweight cars after that. If anyone can help, contact me (in the menu at left). Let’s talk.
Also, for the geeks out there, I fixed the style sheet for the header so that it displays properly in Mozilla (including Firefox). I had the height set at 5ems, instead of 100px. Oops.
August 26, 2004
Added a group of pages for a roster of the diesel locomotives of the Chicago & North Western Railway, from 1926 to 1995, when the road merged with Union Pacific. This roster is based on the manuscript that was used in 1995 for the book "Diesels of the Chicago & North Western" by Paul K. Withers, Roster by Don Strack.
August 14, 2004
Added a page with information taken from random issues of INFO magazine, Union Pacific’s employee magazine. These particular items were taken from a stack of issues of INFO for free distribution in the registry room at the recent UPHS convention in Ogden.
August 11, 2004
Added George Pitchard's Utah Northern and the other associated UP/OSL narrow gauge locomotives in Utah.
Added George Pitchard's Utah Central, Utah Southern, and other UP/OSL standard gauge locomotives in Utah.
(Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
July 18, 2004
Made a somewhat incomplete attempt to update the UP SD70M page. If anyone can help me do a better job, please let me know.
June 18, 2004
Added a new Union Pacific Q&A section, to act as a place to publish miscellaneous information about UP, based on various emails and notes from my research.
Added a new Utah Railway SD50S 6061 photo album.
Fixed several broken links and missing files. Work on this continues.
(My time during the past month or so has been taken up by an article for The Streamliner about UP’s Tintic Subdivision, where UP ran its Shay locomotives.)
May 22, 2004
Updated the roster information for Utah Railway MK50-3 locomotives to include completion dates of rebuild effort.
May 7, 2004
Added a set of pages about the Eureka Hill Railroad, a narrow gauge railroad in Utah’s Tintic Mining District that used Shay locomotives exclusively. Included is a timeline of the road’s history, and a full roster of their locomotives. Many thanks go to George Pitchard, Sam Bass, and Stan Jennings for sharing their research on this company.
April 25, 2004
Added a new page for FRA Rules, with applicable dates for when running boards and footboards were no longer required. Also mentioned are the regulations concerning locomotive identification.
Updated the page for EMD builder plates to reflect new information from Eric Hirsimaki about the first use of the rectangular stainless steel plate in 1942.
April 22, 2004
Added new pages in George Pitchard's manuscript, and updated other pages, about the Salt Lake & Mercur Railroad, a standard gauge line operated with Shay locomotives. Included is a full locomotive roster. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
April 19, 2004
Converted the last of the pages to the new format, including Western Pacific in Utah, On-Line Articles, and What’s New, About This Site, and Who Am I?, along with some minor pages.
April 18, 2004
Converted the pages for Railroads of Utah to the new format.
Converted the pages for Utah Railway to the new format.
April 17, 2004
Converted the pages for Utah Fuels The West, the story of coal mining in Utah, to the new format.
Converted the pages for Utah Railroads to the new format.
April 16, 2004
Converted the pages for Union Pacific to the new format, including all of the painting, and diesel and motor car information. (This one was a lot of work!)
Converted the pages for Reeder Manuscript to the new format.
Converted the pages for Southern Pacific to the new format.
April 15, 2004
Converted the pages for Ogden Rails to the new format.
Converted the pages for the Promontory program on KUED, Channel 7 to the new format.
April 14, 2004
Converted the pages for Carbon County Railway to the new format.
Converted the pages for D&RGW to the new format.
Converted the pages for the Johnson Manuscript to the new format.
Converted the pages for Locomotive Notes to the new format.
April 12, 2004
Converted the pages for Bingham Canyon, "To Move A Mountain", to the new format.
Converted the pages for the Adkins Manuscript to the new format.
April 11, 2004
Added access to Union Pacific Cabooses, a set of files that consist of edited and updated text and rosters originally used as part of the Union Pacific caboose book, published by Union Pacific Historical Society in December 2002.
April 8, 2004
Converted all of the files in the Pitchard Manuscript to the new format.
Also, the Contact Me feature is now working.
April 7, 2004
Converted all of the files in the On-Line UP Diesel Roster to the new format.
April 1, 2004
Added access to the new Newspapers section, comprised of newspaper items from Utah’s pioneer railroad era (1869-1903). These are scanned, reformatted and updated versions of research completed by George Pitchard in the mid 1980s.
March 28, 2004
Check out the new design. I've gotten the PHP code to work in the individual header, footer and sidebar files. Having developed a functioning template, I think I can start production of converting all of the various pages to use the new design. One problem will be to convert the HTML pages over to PHP, and still properly maintain all the links.
Here are a couple other (incomplete) pages that should work properly: Newspapers Index, and Wasatch & Jordan Valley Newspapers.
March 21, 2004
Made the new Photo Albums available. There is still a lot of work to do on the captions, but at least the albums are back. (The software is the open source PHP Gallery from SourceForge.)
Fixed the link colors. I'm working on a re-design of the entire web site (mostly to move from using Frontpage to using PHP), and decided that I liked the new link color enough to fix the current site.
March 18, 2004
Updated George Pitchard's Utah Eastern locomotive page, based on additional information furnished by Mr. Pitchard. This will be the first of many updates to the Pitchard manuscript. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
March 3, 2004
Changed web hosting service, to Lunarpages.com from Powweb.com, which was having trouble supporting FrontPage extensions.
February 1, 2004
Removed the reference on the Rio Grande index page to the D&RGW web ring, which was terminated.
January 30, 2004
Updated the disposition data for D&RGW SW1000s 143 and 145, based on information from Norm Metcalf, Don Bain, and Ed Fulcomer.
January 25, 2004
Updated the Union Pacific corporate history page to reflect new merger date information for D&RGW and SSW from the Railroad Retirement Board.
Updated the SP in Utah page to reflect SP subsidiary information from the Railroad Retirement Board.
January 1, 2004
Added an edited version of Eastbound To Wahsatch, an article about UP’s route in Weber and Echo canyons, originally published in The Streamliner, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2003.
December 8, 2003
Changed the location of the "Print This Page" feature, moving it from the bottom to the left side, adding an icon to allow a visitor of format each page for printing.
December 7, 2003
Added index page for Pitchard manuscript, including access to all of the various pages associated with this excellent source of early Utah railroad information. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
I am pleased to have received George Pitchard’s permission to make this landmark work available. Although focused primarily on narrow gauge railroads, George’s research into Utah’s early railroads is likely to be amazingly useful to anyone with an interest in Utah railroads prior to 1900. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
November 23, 2003
Added index page for Adkins manuscript.
Changed "Dissertations" to "Manuscripts" after spending some time doing research to learn what the differences are between a thesis, a dissertation, and a manuscript. A manuscript is a bit more general in nature, but still refers to an original or a compiled work that has not yet been formally published in paper by traditional hardbound methods.
November 7, 2003
Added access to Johnson chapters III, IV, V, and VI, along with the bibliography.
Started the work to scan the Pitchard manuscript, "Utah Railroads Scrapbook" from 1987, including the companion "Newspaper Notes project" also from 1987. (Removed in August 2007 at author's request)
November 4, 2003
Added index page for the Johnson manuscript, including access to the Introduction and chapters I and II.
November 2, 2003
Added access to Reeder chapters III through XII, plus the two appendices.
October 27, 2003
Added new Dissertations index page. (Changed to Manuscripts)
Added index page for the Reeder manuscript, including access to chapters I, II, and the front and back matter.
The Reeder manuscript was what got me started with researching Utah railroads in 1977. It has an amazing amount of history information about Utah’s first railroads. It lead me to more study on the subject, including getting a copy of David Johnson’s 1947 study that covers a much broader range of Utah railroads, but in less detail. My own research in 1977-1978 started when I realized that there were several mistakes in the Johnson study, and as they say, the rest is history.
October 26, 2003
Updated the UP Utah Division history page.
Work is progressing on scanning the Reeder, Johnson, and Adkins manuscripts, a project begun in early October.
October 7, 2003
Updated the Utah Railway Diesel Roster page to include the rebuilt MK50-3 units.
October 2, 2003
Added Utah Rails Court Cases page
Added Utah Rails Newspaper Indexes page
September 27, 2003
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah 1908-1988 page to include the remainder of additional information from LeMassena, from 1917 through 1970.
September 26, 2003
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah 1908-1988 page to include additional information from LeMassena and other sources, from 1908 to 1917, including D&RG’s new line over Soldier Summit.
Updated the Rio Grande Branches in Utah page to include additional branch lines and spurs, including information about the San Pete Valley and Morrison branches, and the Kingsville and Farnsworth spurs.
Updated WP in Utah to include initial organization and construction.
Added new Carbon County Newspapers page, an index of research in the various newspapers of Carbon County, including entries from the University of Utah Special Collections Coal Index, compiled by Floyd A. O'Neil and his staff at the university’s American West Center.
Formatted all of the Utah Coal pages for printing.
September 24, 2003
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah Before 1908 page to include additional information from LeMassena and other sources, from 1902 to 1907.
Updated the Rio Grande Branches in Utah page to include additional branch lines and spurs.
September 23, 2003
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah Before 1908 page to include additional information from LeMassena and other sources, including some reformatting and additional work to 1902.
Updated the Rio Grande Branches in Utah page to include additional branch lines and spurs.
September 21, 2003
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah Before 1908 page to include additional information from LeMassena and other sources, from 1889 to 1900.
Updated the Rio Grande Branches in Utah page to include additional branch lines and spurs.
September 19, 2003
Added excerpts about mining in Utah from Stenhouse’s 1873 Rocky Mountain Saints.
September 15, 2003
Rearranged the Rio Grande in Utah pages to include:
- Rio Grande in Utah before 1908
- Rio Grande In Utah 1908-1988
- Rio Grande in Utah 1988-1996 (part of SP)
- Rio Grande in Utah After 1996 (part of UP)
Rearranged UP in Utah after 1900 to include post-merger information for WP, after 1983, and SP, after 1996.
Rearranged SP in Utah to include post-merger information for D&RGW after 1988.
September 11, 2003
Separated the Photo Albums from the UtahRails.net web site to allow for better file management.
Updated the About UtahRails.net page and Who Am I? page.
September 9, 2003
Added new pages for Tullidge’s 1886 History of Salt Lake City, Chapter 81 and 82.
Added new pages for Bancroft’s 1889 History of Utah, Chapter 27 and 28.
(Looking for a copy of Stenhouse’s 1873 Rocky Mountain Saints, Chapter 57.)
September 7, 2003
Added new pages for Summit County Railroads and Summit County Coal Mines.
September 6, 2003
Updated the Salt Lake & Utah index page.
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah page.
Updated the ICC Dockets page.
Updated the UP Utah Division Timetables page.
September 5, 2003
Updated the Print Publications page.
Added Salt Lake & Utah pages.
September 3, 2003
Added Coalville-Grass Creek page to Utah Coal section. More to be added.
Edited and updated D&RGW Utah Branch Lines page.
Edited and updated ICC Dockets page.
September 1, 2003
Added a summary page of Rio Grande Branch Lines in Utah.
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah and Rio Grande Station Summary pages.
August 27, 2003
Added new pages for ICC Reports and Dockets that have information about Utah railroads.
August 23, 2003
Reinstated the LocoNotes Dealers and Scrappers page.
August 8, 2003
Added a "Print This Page" link as part of the footer on every page. Most will not work right now, at least until they can be formatted for special printing.
August 6, 2003
Added a page to discuss whether or not UP’s 500-series F units were called F9s or F9Ms.
August 3, 2003
Added a summary of D&RGW’s Utah lines by using D&RGW’s Employee Timetables.
August 1, 2003
Continued to update and add to Rio Grande in Utah, including information about the Thistle line relocation.
Added cutoff date to Rio Grande Events; updates will hereafter be added to Rio Grande in Utah.
Updated the D&RGW EMD F5 question page.
July 30, 2003
Added the 1923 profiles to the D&RGW Track Profiles page.
July 29, 2003
Added D&RGW Track Profiles for Salt Lake Division in 1923 and 1934, and for the entire system in 1969.
Added a Locomotive Details photo album
July 28, 2003
Added D&RGW System Maps for 1923, 1934, and 1969, all from the railroad’s own condensed profile books.
July 26, 2003
Added a summary of Rio Grande’s stations and sidings in Utah. (Incomplete, work continues)
July 24, 2003
Reorganized the Rio Grande in Utah, UP in Utah, SP in Utah, and WP in Utah pages, including cross-links between each and the UP in Utah page, to show changes to each road’s former tracks and locations following the respective mergers.
Added separate index and "…in Utah" pages for each of WP and SP to allow links to separate locomotive information for each of these two roads.
Deleted separate Rio Grande Events page and incorporated all information into either Rio Grande in Utah or UP in Utah.
Deleted Locomotive Notes Dealers and Scrappers page. It was becoming a sore point between myself and a couple small businessmen who thought that it should be a commercial referral service.
July 21, 2003
Updated the Salt Lake City Southern page.
Updated the Rio Grande in Utah page.
July 20, 2003
Updated the information on the Salt Lake City Southern page to include information about the RailTex/RailAmerica merger.
July 18, 2003
Added a new page with measurements of Utah Railway SD50S 6061.
Added new photo album of Utah Railway SD50S 6061.
Added new page for research notes for railroads and rail-related industries in Syracuse (in north Davis County) and Hooper (in south Weber County).
July 14, 2003
Removed direct access to the LocoNotes Dealers and Scrappers page. (Page removed on July 24, 2003)
July 13, 2003
Added six photo albums for Union Pacific GP30s and GP30Bs, including updating and enhancing the previous two albums for detail views of GP30s and GP30Bs.
July 5, 2003
Updated the Locomotive Trucks photo album to include additional photos, and made images larger.
June 20, 2003
Updated the UP DDA40X Centennial article in Web Publications.
June 15, 2003
Added a left-side menu for ease of navigation on most pages.
Added a linked UtahRails graphic to most pages for easy access to the UtahRails.net home page.
(For the techies out there, the left side navigation bar is a FrontPage shared border, using a link bar style derived from the Profiles style.)
Did a lot of clean up of the web site, including applying style sheets to most pages.
June 11, 2003
Added some information about UP’s Armour Yellow color on the UP Diesel Paint page.
May 12, 2003
Added a UP Utah Division History page, including information about the history of UP's Utah Division, and all of the operational changes that changed the Utah Division to today's Salt Lake City Service Unit. (incomplete, research continues)
May 10, 2003
Added UTA-Salt Lake City Southern page. (incomplete, research continues)
May 9, 2003
Updated UP Corporate History page.
Updated Utah Railway History After 1960 page.
May 3, 2003
Added aerial photos to each of the WP-UP Junction and Grant Tower photo albums.
May 2, 2003
Added a photo album for Grant Tower in Salt Lake City. (Other photos invited.)
May 1, 2003
Updated the UP F units article to include information from Ken Ardinger about the build dates (including a plate check) of the UP 1481 ABBA set of F7s that demonstrated on N&W (and on C&NW) in August to September 1952.
April 26, 2003
Added a photo album for WP-UP Junction in Salt Lake City.
April 25, 2003
Updated the WP in Utah page to include a station-by-station summary of WP stations in Utah.
April 23, 2003
Updated the D&RGW Locomotive Chronology page through December 31, 2002.
April 21, 2003
Added new basic pages for Southern Pacific in Utah and Western Pacific in Utah. These are simply conversions of 20-year-old Word documents, and will serve as the basis for additional information.
April 19, 2003
Updated the LocoNotes Dealers & Scrappers page to include additional information from Ken Ardinger, John Mallory, and Joseph Yarbrough.
April 17, 2003
Added a new page about LocoNotes FAQ (frequently asked questions), including comments about locomotive frame numbers, serial numbers, and builder dates.
April 12, 2003
Added a new page about Utah’s sugar beet industry.
April 4, 2003
Added an MP Cabooses page as a supplement to the UPHS UP Caboose book
April 3, 2003
Added a Comments and Opinions page.
March 23, 2003
Added two pages about Western Pacific diesel locomotives after the 1983 UP merger: WP Roster Notes, and WP Dispositions.
Updated several of the pages in the UP Locomotive News and Changes, 1996-2000 section, to incorporate corrections due to typographical errors in the original documents.
March 20, 2003
Added a new section: UP Locomotive News and Changes, 1996-2000.
March 5, 2003
Fixed an error in the 1915-1933 UP locomotive chronology that had the 4-10-2s all added as UP 5090 series in 1926. (Thanks to Larry Finnell for bringing this to my attention)
February 26, 2003
Updated the various dispositions for the D&RGW GP35s.
February 21, 2003
Updated the disposition for D&RGW SD40T-2 5402, now in service as First Union Rail (FURX) 3021.
February 6, 2003
Changed the background on all pages for a consistent look.
(A new 2.4 Gig computer with a 19-inch screen and Windows XP now makes maintaining these web pages a bit easier.)
January 17, 2003
Updated several Utah Coal and Railroads of Utah pages to incorporate numerous handwritten and typewritten notes from 1979-1982.
January 16, 2003
Updated the Utah Railway After 1960 page, including new information about Utah Railway’s various parent companies and its sale in 2002 to Genesee & Wyoming.
January 15, 2003
Updated the UP Park City Branch article to include footnotes.
(Using a combination of Word 2000 and NoteTab Pro, I have developed a method to take advantage of Word’s automatic footnote numbering, and its export to compact HTML features. This together with a clip in NoteTab that lets me put in a proper internal styles, will make maintaining my documents with proper footnotes much easier. I use footnotes mostly for myself, to remind myself where I got my information from.)
January 5, 2003
Corrected the dates for the first D&RGW Aspen Gold steel cabooses with four black stripe, and single black stripe paint schemes on the D&RGW Caboose Paint Scheme page.
December 27, 2002
Converted the Ogden Rails PDF files to pure HTML, after figuring out how to preserve the footnotes.
December 24, 2002
Added pages for research questions about UP wooden cabooses and UP steel cabooses.
Updated the list of print publications.
December 20, 2002
Updated the Rio Grande Caboose Paint Schemes pages to include information furnished by Steve Seguine.
December 16, 2002
Added a photo album for diesel locomotive trucks.
Updated the About These Web Pages page to reflect my use of PhotoThumb and a new slide scanner.
December 14, 2002
Added a link on the Links page to Derrick Brashear’s Locomotive Truck Sideframes page
December 12, 2002
Fixed an error in the D&RGW diesel roster that showed D&RGW F7A 5561 as having been wrecked at Mill Fork, Utah in 1963. Photos of the wreck recently uncovered by Steve Seguine show that 5561 was not involved.
December 8, 2002
Added new pages about Utah’s railroad companies, including an alphabetical list, linked to summaries of each railroad company, and information about railroad service in Utah, as regulated by the Utah State Public Service Commission.
December 5, 2002
Updated the Utah Railway caboose page
November 19, 2002
Updated the UP Modern Era paint schemes page.
November 18, 2002
Updated the Rio Grande Diesel roster.
November 17, 2002
Created a new page for UP diesel locomotive Modern Era (2000-2002) paint schemes, by combining previously separate pages for lightning stripes, wings, and white roofs.
Added a reference on the UP roster update page for Jim Harrawood’s UP Roster Changes page. This is an excellent source for the monthly changes UP’s diesel locomotive roster.
November 16, 2002
Split the D&RGW Caboose page to separate the steel cabooses from the wooden cabooses, and to allow separate coverage of the steel caboose paint schemes, along with number-by-number reference pages for the caboose paint schemes.
November 14, 2002
Added the above Change Detection feature to allow anyone interested to be notified of changes to the web site that are recorded on this page.
October 25, 2002
Updated the UP small wings and lightning stripes page.
October 20, 2002
Added separate D&RGW Caboose Index page, with links to a new D&RGW wooden caboose page and pages for D&RGW steel cabooses and D&RGW steel caboose paint schemes.
Reorganized the Web Publications page to include all web articles, whether or not they were previously published as print articles. This included moving several links to UP diesel articles from the UP diesel page to the reorganized Web Publications page.
Fixed the appearance of the roster listings in the C&NW GP7/GP9 article.
Fixed several broken and incorrect links.
October 2, 2002
Added a link to my web page with MP3 files of the music of Balin' Wire Bob, my uncle Bob Strack’s recording name when he was recording real and genuine Country & Western music in Nashville in 1958.
September 28, 2002
Updated the D&RGW Caboose page.
Updated and made corrections to the Utah Railway Diesel Roster.
September 17, 2002
Updated the page about SP’s GRIP Locomotive Rebuild program, incorporating additional information to answer questions about the program. This page answers the question, "What does an SP SD40E or SD45E look like?" (Answer: There is no such thing.)
Fixed the disposition of UP 9998 in the UP Wrecked Units page, after its wreck and return to service as UP 6701.
September 13, 2002
Added three photo albums of UP 25007, a steel CA-3 caboose.
September 7, 2002
Fixed broken links in the UP GP40 and UP GP30B photo albums.
August 26, 2002
Added mirrored version of Benn Coifman’s The Evolution of the Diesel Locomotive in the United States (Copyright, 1994, Benn Coifman, used with permission).
August 25, 2002
Added a link to Railfax, publishers of Extra 2200 South from 1968 to 1990. All back issues of the Don Dover era-X2200 are available from the linked web site.
Updated the discussion about EMD F5s, and why D&RGW may or may not have had any.
August 24, 2002
Fixed several bad links.
Fixed the UP GP30, GP30B, and GP40 photo albums, including sharpening the images themselves.
August 21, 2002
Added UP GP40s photo album page.
Joined the D&RGW Web Ring; look at the bottom of the D&RGW Index page for the link.
August 18, 2002
Added a page about SP’s GRIP Locomotive Rebuild programs
August 16, 2002
Added a page about UP units repainted with Lightning Stripes, beginning in December 2000.
August 10, 2002
Added a page about UP units repainted with Small Nose Wings in 2001 and early 2002.
Updated the UP Diesel Locomotive Paint page.
Added a new UP Diesel Locomotive Painting Lettering & Numbering page.
August 6, 2002
Updated the Locomotive Dealers and Scrappers page to include the change of VMV Enterprises.
July 27, 2002
Added "Serves All The West", a history of Union Pacific dieselization, 1934-1982.
July 25, 2002
Converted the 80-page Bingham Canyon "To Move A Mountain" PDF file to six separate HTML files, with a new To Move A Mountain Index page.
July 24, 2002
Added MP3 sound file of UP’s 4-12-2 steam locomotive.
July 23, 2002
Converted the 143-page Utah Coal "Utah Fuels The West" PDF file to 19 separate HTML files, with a new Utah Fuels The West Index page.
July 14, 2002
Fixed several broken bold tags that allowed several entire pages to be displayed in bold text.
Edited the Utah Railway History page.
Edited the Utah Railway After 1960 page.
July 4, 2002
Updated the UP Diesel Paint Schemes page, reflecting new information discovered on a recent trip to the UP archives in Omaha.
Updated the Utah Railway Diesel Notes page, eliminating the duplicate entries and editing the other information for better readability.
June 24, 2002
Updated the UP Diesels with white roofs page.
June 23, 2002
Added a Links page.
June 21, 2002
Updated the Print Publications page.
Updated the All-Time UP Roster Update page.
June 19, 2002
Converted all but a few of the remaining PDF files to pure HTML, including all of the files referenced in the Web Publications page.
Added UP’s maintenance of way units to the all-time miscellaneous units index and accompanying roster page.
June 12, 2002
Added a full and complete roster of Union Pacific diesel locomotives.
Added Union Pacific Diesel Paint Schemes page.
Added Union Pacific Merger Diesel Paint Schemes page.
May 17, 2002
Converted D&RGW Motive Power Chronology from PDF to pure HTML web page.
Converted D&RGW Events/Merger Chronology from PDF to pure HTML web page.
May 12, 2002
UtahRails.net (http://utahrails.net) first became available as it own domain name.
D&RGW all-time diesel roster converted from PDF to pure HTML.
May 6, 2002
Converted the Rio Grande Diesel Paint Schemes from PDF to pure HTML web page.
May 5, 2002
Added Promontory pages.
April 27, 2002
Added UP Units With White Roofs page.
April 14, 2002
Added MP15 rosters page.
April 11, 2002
Added San Pete Valley Railway page.
April 10, 2002
Added SD70M page.
Added EMD Builder Plates page.
March 8, 2002
Removed the UP 2000 Locomotive Roster and updated the UP Diesel Locomotive Roster Page.
January 4, 2002
Added Utah Railway page, including rosters of steam and diesel locomotives.
Added Roster page.
Added Utah Copper steam roster page.
December 31, 2001
Added Grey 4-6-6-4 Challengers page.
Edited Union Pacific Motor Cars Roster.
December 27, 2001
Added Union Pacific Painting, Lettering & Numbering (PL&N) pages.
Added Union Pacific Motor Cars page.
Converted Union Pacific Corporate History page from a PDF document to a web document.
December 23, 2001
Added Utah Railroads article from Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Updated and converted UP Wrecked Diesel Units article from a PDF document to a web document.
December 21, 2001
Added three new photos to the Carbon County Railway photo album.
Split the Geneva Coal Mine photo album away from the Carbon County Railway photo album.
Converted Parleys Canyon article from a PDF document to a web document.
November 23, 2001
Updated the Kennecott Copper locomotive roster, placing it all on a single page, with a hyperlinked summary at the top.
November 21, 2001
Removed the UP 1997 to 1999 road number cross reference because it was out of date.
November 20, 2001
Added Carbon County Railway page.
November 18, 2001
Added photo album for Carbon County Railway.
Added access to photo albums on home page.
August 4, 2001
Added Union Pacific In Utah information, along with accompanying research notes. (Initially published as PDF files; changed to pure HTML in June 2002.)
Added Union Pacific Caboose page, including history and roster listing.
August 3, 2001
Added Web Publications page, with web-only versions of most of my print publications. Included are the text documents from two books: Ogden Rails, and Union Pacific Switchers and Slugs; along with text documents of numerous articles about Union Pacific diesel locomotives.
July 24, 2001
Added Ogden Rails web version of my 1997 book.
July 21, 2001
Added D&RGW home page.
May 31, 2001
Added UP’s "Great Big Rollin' Railroad" theme song.
April 28, 2001
The UP 2001 Locomotive Roster PDF file has had several corrections made.
April 9, 2001
Added Salt Lake Mining Review file and Goodrich article about building the Copper Belt Railroad.
April 1, 2001
Added To Move A Mountain page to Bingham section of Utah Rails.
March 21, 2001
Added new "Photo Albums" section, with detail photos of UP’s GP30s and GP30Bs.
March 19, 2001
Added "Utah Coal" selection to Utah Rails section.
March 11, 2001
Added this "What's New" page.
Added About This Web Site page.
March 9, 2001
Split the Union Pacific section into a UP History section and a UP Locomotives section.
March 8-10, 2001
Added Union Pacific Corporate History page to the Union Pacific section.
February 20, 2001
Added We Will Deliver page to the Union Pacific section.
February 18, 2001
Updated Publications page.
February 12-16, 2001
Added and updated the Dealers, Scrappers and Rebuilders page in the Locomotive Notes section.
February 2-19, 2001
Added and updated Union Pacific Patched Units page in the Union Pacific section.
February 2, 2001
Minor update and correction to the The Sins of Steven Ambrose page in the Utah Rails section.
December 29, 2000
Added page about Dick Dilworth and the EMD GP7 to the Locomotive Notes section.
December 19, 2000
Added The Sins of Steven Ambrose page to the Utah Rails section.
December 15, 2000
Updated the Kennecott Utah Copper locomotive roster pages in the Utah Rails section. (This link originally pointed to a different file. On November 23, 2001, I updated the page.)
Added the Canning page in the Utah Rails section.
November 19, 2000
Added pages about EMD’s La Grange location to the Locomotive Notes section.
November 13, 2000
Added Alco vs. EMD page to Locomotive Notes section.
November 10, 2000
Added Parleys Canyon page to the Utah Rails section.
November 7-8, 2000
Added locomotive roster for Kennecott Utah Copper to the Utah Rails section. (This link was originally for a different file. On November 23, 2001, I updated the whole thing.)
November 5, 2000
Added roster pages in the Union Pacific section to cross reference the old road numbers of UP’s current locomotive fleet to the new December 1999 road numbers.
October 30, 2000
The UtahRails.net web site first became available.
