The elevators at Haggard recede over the roller-coaster Great Plains topography as a Dodge City Turn continues west into the setting sun back to Satanta behind a pair of GP30s.

Twenty-three cars rumble westwards towards Satanta behind a pair of GP30's on Cimarron Valley railroad--an ex-Phelps Dodge unit led by former Rio Grande 3020, passing the elevators at Haggard.

Toto, we're not in Utah any more! Freshly painted in a pleasing coat of blue paint, former Rio Grande GP30 3020 leads a sister GP30, Southwestern Railroad 28, back to Satanta with a 23-car Dodge C... (more)

It's like the 60s never ended on a fall morning in 1988 at Welby Junction, where the Magna and Copperton branches out of Midvale separate. A pair of as-delivered GP30s switch their train while a t... (more)

Beautiful apparition of the past soon after dawn on a fall day in 1988 as a trio of classic GP30s essentially unchanged in 26 years of service near Welby Junction on the run back from Magna with t... (more)

SOU 2601 and NW 522 take the night off.

For many years, CofG/SOU/NS trains on the branch between Opelika and Roanoke (later cut back to Lafayette) used 2.42 miles of the WofA/FL/SS/CSX between downtown Opelika and Roanoke Junction. In ... (more)

SOU 2601 eases into yard limits at station sign Hatley with NW 522 trailing.

GP30 3016 leads three sisters in crystal-clear cold air of a January morning in 1989, working the Midvale Tramp's return from the Kennecott smelters at Magna back to the Bingham branch.

Somewhat of a rare one. Fully amortized, Union Paciifc merely wrote off GP30 860 after suffering a minor derailment with a little body damage in 1985. Destined for scrapping at Durbano metals in O... (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)

Workday almost done, the engineer eases GP30 2575 - with a crewman on the steps in front and another riding the footboards in back - toward its resting spot. as this photo shows, back in the 'good... (more)

SOU 2549 dips to the right as it crosses a soft spot in the track just north of Hamilton. The line was not in great shape, so there was plenty of rocking and rolling as the train headed up Pine Mo... (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)

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)