Desert, Utah, Colorado like pictures

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I’m looking for some inspiration for the scenery on my layout. I really like this kind of scenery. Please look at these links:

http://www.shortlinesusa.com/utah9010-1up.jpg
http://www.shortlinesusa.com/UtahRR-1up.jpg
http://www.shortlinesusa.com/utah9010-2up.jpg
http://www.shortlinesusa.com/utah9010-3.jpg
http://www.shortlinesusa.com/utahtank-up.jpg

Can someone please tell me where on the net I can find more pictures with this scenery?

Thanks in advance.

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Have a look at my friends web site you might find somthing you like here, hope it helps
http://www.railroad-crossing.com/index.shtml

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steveblackledge:

Thanks a lot, very interesting web page with great pictures [:)]

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You might find some of these pictures enjoyable.

http://www.somewherewest.com/

Tom

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Tom:

Thanks a lot for the great link [:D]

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It looks like your pictures are from around Helper, Utah, on the line that goes up Price Canyon. Pretty and rugged terrain.

Mark in Utah

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Maybe not online, but check out Pelle Soeborg’s articles in MR. Yeah, I know, it’s not Utah, but his scenery techniques can be adapted for anywhere in the southwest.

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Note that the photos you linked to are not technically in the “desert” but are either in the Wasatch Mountains (various parts of the Price River canyon) or the very eastern fringe of the Wasatch Plateau around Utah Railway’s Martin yard. These places may have a pretty harsh climate but aren’t dry enough to qualify as desert. Of course to modelers living in the East or Pacific Northwest they still look pretty barren.

You could also try Don Strack’s Utah Rails site:

http://utahrails.net/index.php

There are some photos of UP in Weber Canyon (north of the Utah/D&RGW Soldier Summit line) here:

http://www.trainweb.org/brettrw/uprr/evanstonsub/utah.html

Lots of Utah stuff, including photos of the Castle Gate mine (also in the Price River canyon) here:

http://www.onlineutah.com/castlegatepics5a.shtml

More pics of Utah coal mines served by the Utah Railway plus other mining info:

http://www.wmrrm.org/index.htm

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Yes you are right. The pictures is from Kyune, Price Canyon, Panther Canyon, Martin. I love that kind of scenery…

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I like these places so much that i went on vacation to these exact places and took tupperware bowls full of soil samples that will be used on my layout after sifting them thru a tea strainer…The soil from Utah is the best…it’s an orange tan color and is perfect for southwest scenery modeling…Chuck

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Very interesting, did you take any pictures when you was there? Please post pictures of your layout, I really want to see the result.