Rio Grande's Geneva Turn departs Provo rolling west by the D&RGW passenger depot, built in 1910 and dismantled in 1986. A tiny glass enclosure with a push button heater and a pay phone for Amtrak ... (more)

A former Clarendon & Pittsford GP9 # 752 now owned by the Black River & Western has just finished building its train at Hudson Yard in Phillipsburg. The Belvidere & Delaware River RR has just res... (more)

Back for the "brand confusion railroad" started operating on these tracks.

Charlie Russell Dinner train pauses on Sage Creek trestle on the former Milwaukee Road North Montana Line

On a clear September morning in 1984, Rio Grande GP9s 5931 and 5904 haul grain along the Tintic Branch at Spanish Fork. By October 1984, D&RGW's first generation EMD power would be removed from se... (more)

A Rio Grande work train glides west trough the Jordan Narrows amid river flooding due to a series of extra wet winters in the nearby Wasatch Mountains. The overgrown Nash gravel spur and wood pile... (more)

Rio Grande GP9 #5904, dressed in 'Billboard Grande' livery, sets out a string of flat cars for loading on the Geneva Pipe Mill Spur in Vineyard, Utah. In the background at right is 'Slag Mountain'... (more)

Working for the Central Vermont, at that time also in thE CN family.

I'm not even sure it's Washington. Nothing on the slide. Is that an enhanced cab heater or what behind the cab.

Traversing fields of alfalfa and winter wheat, Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp rambles west approaching Welby Yard in West Jordan. Note the tiny plane among the cumulous clouds, preparing to land at Sa... (more)

The NY&GL's two GP9 locomotives sit idle at the railroad's Passaic yard.

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)

After a trip up to Hinckley, MN to pick up a 30 car BNSF transfer of grain loads, the GP9 duo from the St. Croix Valley RR roll south down the former NP Skally Line as we continue our trip back in... (more)

Just before WM disappeared forever, their Chessis System friends transferred a few old geeps to WM ownership. They probably were scrapped in this paint job.

A pair of GP9's work the sporadic local called the Area H industrial job, no one really knows when they'll go down, it's all a luck of the draw, there's not much active street running left in Toro... (more)