Rio Grande train #101, interchange received from the BN at Denver and delivered to the SP at Ogden, crosses Freedom Boulevard in Provo on a stormy June 8, 1986 afternoon.

Rio Grande train #752 rambles slowly along the Tintic Branch with 10 cars of Moroni grain for the rail to truck transload site at Spanish Fork Sugar Factory. The lanes of Interstate 15 border this... (more)

Rio Grande wide vision caboose 01522 trails D&RGW train #673, approaching United States Steel's Geneva Works in Vineyard.

Rio Grande train #187 rolls west by a work train parked in the former Salt Lake & Utah Railroad interchange yard at Provo Junction. Crews often referred to this area as 'Backman's' named for a fou... (more)

Rio Grande GP40-2s lead a Speno Rail Grinder along the westward main track at Provo Yard.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local arrives at Roper Yard with a handful of cars from Kenecott Copper.

By August 18, 1985, Rio Grande's Helper car shop was a true survivor that featured vintage buff and brown paint with the obsolete 'Scenic Line of the World' Royal Gorge Route logo painted above fo... (more)

Rio Grande dispatcher #5 has lined mixed freight #148 out of the Mesa siding onto the mainline a minute or two after the passage of hot intermodal train #101. Time has altered this landscape in th... (more)

After making a pickup at Provo Yard, a Rio Grande freight performs an air test at the D&RGW depot prior to its departure west to Roper Yard.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp heads north through fields of winter wheat, bound for the Kennecott Copper Corp. interchange yard in Magna. Today this vast open space is filled with commercial business... (more)

Union Pacific's Sharp, Utah to Valmy, Nevada coal load departs Provo for the Silver State. Today this right of way hosts a double track commuter rail line owned by the Utah Transit Authority.

Southern Pacific's ASRVM climbs the 0.48% Cherry Hill grade on UP's Salt Lake Subdivision approaching Kaysville.

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)

Rio Grande GP40 #3147 awaits a call to serve among its Aspen Gold stablemates in Helper Yard. The 3147 was built for the Penn Central in Sept. 1968 and acquired secondhand by the D&RGW by Nov. 198... (more)

With 30 cars on the drawbar, Utah Railway's Provo-Ogden turn heads west through American Fork on a hazy Superbowl Sunday, 2013.