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Jacob Lyman's photography. Trains, landscapes, and whatever I find interesting. Contributor to Desert Empire Project on Facebook. Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96380166@N07/
New freight operation, the Savage Tooele Railroad; as seen last night a day following the line's opening ceremony. A locomotive is hanging out on the north end of the route framed by the distant Oquirrh Mountains, while track construction continues south down in Marshall.
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Nevada Northern 250, the railroad's recently painted locomotive for the upcoming 2026 semi-something-quintessential-ennial (who can spell it without spellcheck really? 😭) looking stunning for a regular excursion train on August 29. #railfan #photography
05.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Union Pacific freight train passing through Tooele, Utah on a late summer afternoon.
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"Hold it, I've been to that station!" flic.kr/p/2pdy7NS
28.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recent display moves at the Tooele Valley Museum and Historical Park has placed the Tooele Valley Railway's Ford Fairmont Hy-Rail truck right outside the Tooele Station's M.O.W. shed. #blackandwhite #railfan #photography
27.06.2025 22:25 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a tiny steam locomotive in an amusement park setting
The Wild Kingdom Train, an amusement ride at Lagoon operated with Crown Metals steam locomotives; has been undergoing changes this year following the announcement of the closure of the long controversial zoo it traveled through.
08.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nickel Plate Road 765... cookies? You bet! These custom cookies were part of this year's Steam in the Valley event on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
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Steam locomotive moving past wooded station, with people lined up along a yellow rope most of them with cell phones out to photograph/film the train.
NKP 765 rolling past crowds in Brecksville, Ohio during the Steam in the Valley event.
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A black diesel locomotive in Maryland surrounded by trees under an overcast sky.
A diesel hauled excursion returning to Cumberland on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on May 3, 2025 traveling through dense forest.
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Photo of railroad museum in roundhouse with steam locomotives.
A visit to the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio.
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Photo of a narrow gauge passenger train traveling through Pennsylvania on a dark gray day.
A regular East Broad Top Railroad excursion to Colgate Grove lead by a diesel locomotive, passes over a section of elevated grade works under an overcast sky on May 4th.
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Black and white photo of a steam locomotive in a roundhouse
"My Dirty Life and Times" slumbering East Broad Top Railroad #18 at the railroad's roundhouse. #railfan #photography #steamtrain
07.05.2025 18:26 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NKP 765 traveling through Ohio
Nickel Plate 765 as part of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Steam in the Valley event, departs Indigo Lake near Everett, Ohio on May 2, 2025.
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A horse in a field with a freight train passing in the distance against a mountain backdrop.
"Horse Power" Horses graze in a field while a Union Pacific freight passes through Tooele yesterday in the shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains. #railfan #photography
29.04.2025 23:41 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of Dolgoch on the Talyllyn Railway at Wharf Station.
Photograph of Lily visiting the Ffestiniog Railway at Harbour Station.
One year ago today in Wales, on the Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. #railfan #photography
- Jacob Lyman
An abandoned structure with a freight train passing through in the distance in the Utah desert; the Great Salt Lake visible on the horizon.
A freight train crossing a two lane highway in the desert.
The regular North Platte to West Colton freight making its way through Bauer, Utah today; on its way to California.
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Photographed of a derailed covered hopper railcar, with wheels and trucksets scattered around it.
Fly ash is shipped out of Intermountain Power for other customers in covered hoppers, but this particular car has suffered a derailment that will mark the end of the line for its use in fly ash service. At the time I visited, it sat waiting near the tracks for the end to come. #photography #railfan
11.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Freight train traveling under an overcast sky
"A Touch of Grey" with a dreary Union Pacific freight crawling through Tooele, Utah last month on the 28th.
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View from onboard a coal stacker at a power plant, offloading coal surrounded by industrial machinery.
A view from onboard Intermountain Power's coal stacker on August 24, 2024. #photography
30.03.2025 15:26 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The front of an Union Pacific freight train crossing a bridge with snowcapped mountains in the background.
Mid-train locomotives on the Union Pacific crossing over a highway on a concrete bridge.
A slow moving mixed freight crawls through Tooele over the 1000 N bridge. Spring is finally settling in and the warm weather is pleasant compared to the snow storms only a few weeks ago.
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A Union Pacific freight train traveling through a desert landscape
A HERZOG ballast train traveling through Stockton, Utah today on Union Pacific's former Los Angeles & Salt Lake line. The ballast train makes a nice variation in traffic from the regular drag freights and the intermodal trains that now frequently only run through at night. #railfan #photography
25.03.2025 01:47 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photographic view of reservoir on a summer's day in front of mountains with a train traveling alongside the water.
A Heber Valley train passing alongside Deer Creek Reservoir on July 21, 2023. #railfan #photography #train flic.kr/p/2qSbZyT
22.03.2025 00:14 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Narrow gauge locomotives Linda and Blanche on the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales.
Hunslet sisters Blanche and Linda running around the Snowdonia train at the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway in the line's namesake community on April 20, 2024.
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Oil refinery at dusk with rail yard full of tank cars and a resting diesel locomotive.
The Big West oil refinery with their SW600 switcher at dusk on a summer's day in July 2023. #railfan #photography #trains
07.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Union Pacific freight train on a warm winter's day running through Tooele, Utah with mountains in background
A freight train rolling through Tooele, Utah on the 26th. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qNWMV9
28.02.2025 17:43 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Union Pacific freight train passing through Rush Valley, Utah.
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A Union Pacific local passing through Garfield, Utah with the Rio Tinto Kennecott smelter in the background. #railfan #photography
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BNSF train traveling through snowy desert landscape.
A BNSF detour over Union Pacific's former LA&SL through Erda, Utah on February 21, 2018.
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Photograph of empty road looking out towards a freight train crossing along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake, with gray clouds hanging in the distance.
A local freight returning to Salt Lake City on the former Western Pacific mainline on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.
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Railroad crane traveling through northern Utah past farm fields on a summer day.
A self propelled Ohio Crane on Union Pacific's Cache Valley branchline in June 2016.
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