Rio Grande engineer Glade Collard has a clear signal to enter the mainline off the Tintic Branch at Springville on Sept. 18, 1987. This run of train No. 665 happens to include the first haul of do... (more)
Rio Grande's Elberta Turn climbs a short 1.1% grade through Keigley with a dozen grain empties for Provo Yard. D&RGW hopper cars are stored at Geneva Steel's dolomite strip mine in Genola. Within ... (more)
Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local descends the Bingham Branch at Dalton Junction. Stored freight cars are visible, tied down on a remnant of the abandoned Lark Branch. The new Mountain View Corrido... (more)
Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp heads east down the Bingham Branch in West Jordan. Before the housing boom of the 1990s, this region of the Salt Lake Valley was largely undeveloped.
Rio Grande Conductor Neal Thorpe rides the steps of a GP30 while the Midvale Tramp local takes the siding at West Jordan. The train crew will take a little break at the nearby Malt Barn on Redwood... (more)
Rio Grande conductor Neal Thorpe watches the world go by from his office on rails as the Midvale Tramp local descends the Bingham Branch at 90th South in West Jordan.
Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local runs around its 10 car train on the Proler Steel passing track near Copperton. Oddly enough, both of these tracks still exist in 2013, although they are now on Ken... (more)
Rio Grande's Provo based #665 local trundles along 10 mph track through Utah's rural Goshen Valley with 10 grain empties from Elberta.
Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp departs its namesake city for Roper Yard with double cabooses on May 5, 1987. From this perspective, you might not realize the location is in the middle of the I-15 and ... (more)
On a warm and sunny July 1988 morning, Rio Grande's Maintenance of Way forces dump carloads of steel mill slag (utilized for track ballast) at milepost 693 of the westward main track at Mapleton, ... (more)
Rio Grande's 'Midvale Tramp' rambles slowly down the Bingham Branch in West Jordan with four cars (and a caboose) for Roper Yard. This right of way (as viewed from Redwood Road) is currently under... (more)
