Though Union Pacific might have had the dominating presence in Salt Lake City--its Beaux Arts depot loomed over the western edge of downtown, complete with massive logotype shield--smaller, fiesti... (more)

After a prolonged stint in storage, Rio Grande returned its SD45's to service with the Southern Pacific's reopening of its Modoc Line in late 1988, initially concentrating the reactivated locomoti... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande freight flies down Vista Hill and towards the abandoned community of Woodside, flashing across the Moderne-style overpass of abandoned highway US 6/50. The Green River Dese... (more)

Crystal-clear dawn paints the sides of the four Rio Grande GP30's working the Midvale Tramp golden as they switch scrap metal cars around west of Midvale at Proler Metal. In the late 1980s, Utah w... (more)

Looking for a ride back to Ogden, Rio Grande SD45 5339 sits on the Rio Grande-Southern Pacific interchange track on a winter's night.

Union Pacific’s MDVRO freight between Denver’s North Yard and Salt Lake City’s Roper Yard passes over Blue Mountain Road west of Clay, Colorado, on September 23, 1999. Four EMD’s from the two pred... (more)

A new Rio Grande bi-level auto rack awaits departure from UP's Provo Yard on a westbound military train. Built in October 1986, the W&K/Thrall fully enclosed rack rides on a Bethlehem 89 ft. flush... (more)

Dressed in 'freight car orange' paint, a 50-foot FMC-Gunderson double door box car was on public display in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1986. The Wood Packer was a series of 100 cars purchased new b... (more)

Rio Grande's 'Helper Local', train #772, retrieves three D&RGW mechanical refrigerator cars from the rabbit track in Springville.

Rio Grande's Railblazer piggyback train #102 glides east through Springville on its 14 hour overnight journey to Denver. The 102 is on the CTC equipped westward main track, which diverges from the... (more)

On Cinco de Mayo 1987, Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local departs town with six cars and two cabooses for Roper Yard. Unfortunately, the Rio Grande removed the two signal bridges that protected the ... (more)

Rio Grande's 772 local sets out a dozen loads of turkey feed for transloading to trucks in Spanish Fork, Utah. The old Utah-Idaho Sugar Factory, built in 1916, still stands along the joint D&RGW-S... (more)

In 1987, the D&RGW planted this billboard in the Salt Lake Valley along their Denver-Salt Lake City mainline. The hand painted ad was created on 17 sheets of plywood and mounted to the metal frame... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local crosses the South Jordan Canal at 22nd West in West Jordan. This was the only time I witnessed this local with a yard goat for power. The setting here is unrecogn... (more)

Wearing its original paint job--which it would wear into retirement-- Rio Grande GP30 3016 idles outside Rio Grande's Transfer yard office while awaiting a crew to come on duty to return to Roper ... (more)