These two locomotives, OHFX 1250 (at right) and OHFX 1258, are sitting at the southern end of Union Pacific Railroad’s Cane Creek Branch at Potash, Utah, site of a large potash mining operation. The foreshortening effect of the 112mm lens setting makes Jackson Butte (the formation in the background) seem closer than it really is. The butte is 1.2 miles (1.9km) behind the locomotives.

According to a UtahRails.net web page, they arrived in April 2007 to perform local switching for “dirt trains” That use never came to pass, and the locomotives were hauled away by truck in Fall 2011. That web page has the full story behind these locomotives. Scroll down to the entry for “Department of Energy (Fluor-Daniel-Fernald) (OHFX).” (Thank you, Don Strack, for compiling that information!)

Just to the right of the locomotives is a pile of dirt and rocks. From the top of that pile, one has this view of the track.