Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp slowly descends the 1.7% grade of the Bingham Branch at the old West Jordan Sugar Factory. Today's train includes box cars of copper concentrate and tank cars of sulphur... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local descends the Bingham Branch in West Jordan. This route was constructed by the D&RGW to tap the riches of Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine, visible in the bac... (more)

Utah Railway's RUT310 local rambles north along the dry wheat fields of West Jordan with 10 cars for Kennecott Copper in Magna. The rugged granite peaks of 9,026 Mt. Olympus mark the east boundar... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp descends the 2.2% grade of the Bingham Branch at Dalton Junction. Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine is nestled in the Oquirrh Mountains at left while the new ore co... (more)

Rio Grande SW1200 #138 takes a turn around the Welby wye on the Bingham Branch in West Jordan.

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)

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)

A pair of spotless EMD GP60s lead Southern Pacific's Midvale Tramp local down the Bingham Branch in West Jordan. The long cut of ballast cars will be interchange delivered to the Kennecott Copper ... (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.

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)

Probably the last place one might expect to find BNSF six axle power is a lightly used branchline in Utah's Salt Lake Valley. June 22, 1999 offered this unique photo opportunity when power short U... (more)

Working together on the Midvale Tramp local nearly 32 years after release from La Grange, Rio Grande GP30s 3015, 3003, and 3007 make a switch move in D&RGW's compact Welby Yard in West Jordan, Uta... (more)

A trio of Kennecott Copper Corp. GP39-2s throttle up pulling 89 cars through Central Junction. Salt Lake City's east bench and Emigration Canyon are in the background, at right.