Some Utah power Provo

The brutish, business-like appearance of an EMD SD45 leads an eastbound Rio Grande manifest freight into Provo on Oct. 17, 1976.

A Utah Railway Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train crosses Bullock Lane along Coal Track 2 south of in Provo on Feb. 21, 1987.

One of my favourite things about the USA are the rest areas. They always seem to be a place of outstanding beauty or have a story to tell. I came across this one on Highway 6 out of Provo. Designe... (more)

'The Spirit That Won The West'

Southern Pacific's Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder meets the UTO8L local at University Avenue in Provo on Sept. 8, 1996. The merger with the mighty Union Pacific was only three days out.

On a frosty December morning in 1974, the Rio Grande Zephyr makes its first station stop out of Salt Lake City, during its 575 mile journey east to Denver.

When I was growing up in Provo, Utah, I never dreamed that one day my hometown would host a 90 mile commuter rail line to Salt Lake City and Ogden. An inbound train from the north is stopped at Pr... (more)

A Union Pacific Intermountain Power coal train is refueled at Provo prior to departing on the former D&RGW for a long journey east to Grand Junction and the West Elk mine on the North Fork Sub in ... (more)

One of the Rio Grande's hot piggyback trains kicks up a little snow passing the Provo passenger station on Jan. 24, 1976.

Several Rio Grande and Southern Pacific tunnel motors were repainted in Union Pacific livery after the UP-SP merger in 1996. Former SP SD45T-2 No. 6857 received a new number, a new paint job, and ... (more)

On the last day of April, 1967, a spring blizzard is closing in as the PVSC, UP’s daily Provo-Salt Lake City local, eases down the hill behind GP9 297 and a string of motive power worthy of a ma... (more)

Rio Grande GP9s No. 5904 and 5922 set out a long cut of drop bottom gondolas in the former Columbia Steel Co. yard at Ironton on May 21, 1983. Spanish Fork Canyon, where a giant mudslide shut down... (more)

Tier 4 demonstrator on the point of a Provo to Lincoln BNSF train.

Union Pacific TR5 No. 1874 arrives at Provo Yard, returning from Hardy with three covered hoppers from the Western Warehouse spur on April 24, 1976.