Relegated to secondary assignments, UP SD40 3016 leads UP's Provo Switcher through a rural area north of Provo on July 26, 1986. The 3016 was built new for the UP by EMD in March 1966 and would be... (more)

Rio Grande train No. 101 glides west through rural Lakota Junction on Oct. 7, 1987. The six box cars behind the trio of EMD GP40s are loads of Coors beer from Golden, Colorado.

A triplicity of Rio Grande cabooses (DRGW 01468, DRGW 01503, DRGW 01447) follow train #142 east through Lakota Junction on August 29, 1987.

Rio Grande train #146, a lumber drag interchanged with the SP at Ogden, roars east through Utah County at Geneva. The 5370 would be wrecked at Pando, Colorado on November 22, 1994 and retired on F... (more)

Rio Grande train #146 rolls east through Lakota Junction while Geneva Steel works to build Utah County's economy and its infamous brown cloud of pollution.

Union Pacific's PVSC local awaits its turn to enter Rio Grande's eastward main track while both east and westbound trains breeze by at Lakota Junction. In the fall of 1985, the old diamond interlo... (more)

Rio Grande wide vision caboose 01522 trails D&RGW train #673, approaching United States Steel's Geneva Works in Vineyard.

A pair of Rio Grande GP9s drag a heavy coal train across the Union Pacific Provo Subdivision at Lakota Crossing. In 1985, these diamonds were removed and switches added to connect UP trains onto t... (more)

Inbound Comstock iron ore train arrives at Geneva Steel just after sunrise, running from Provo on Rio Grande trackage rights and trailing a Missouri Pacific caboose.

As the sun fades in the western sky, Union Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest rambles east through Lakota Junction. The double track line at left belongs to the Utah Transit Authority for... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo Switcher returns home with 12 loads of welded seam pipe retrieved from Geneva's Pipe Mill spur in Vineyard, Utah. The verdant fields of corn and alfalfa are today filled with hi... (more)

A nicely matched pair of Missouri Pacific GP38-2s lead Union Pacific's PVSC (Provo - Salt Lake City) local freight at the junction point with the D&RGW at Lakota. At the time, local railfans were ... (more)

Utah Railway's Provo - Ogden Turn is but a few miles from returning to its home yard, rolling eastward through Lakota Junction.

Busy noon-time in the delivery yard at Geneva Steel, where both Union Pacific and Rio Grande locals serving the sprawling facility make moves to depart. The conductor of UP's Provo Local protects ... (more)

It's afternoon shift change time at Orem's Geneva Steel, and rebuilt Baldwin DS 4-4-10 #21, now repowered with an EMD powerplant by Morrison-Knudsen, waits patiently for workers to cross before re... (more)