After lining the switch from the Tintic Branch to the siding, Rio Grande Conductor Neal Thorpe boards train #664 for the short zig and zag journey to the Spanish Fork Sugar Factory with turkey fee... (more)

Only three of the 700 series ex Soo GP-30's ever received a full WC paint job. The Alco type B trucks and some issues with crispy electrical cabinets doomed them to be some of the first power WC d... (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)

NS GP30 2595 leads a TVRM excursion at Emory Gap, TN in October 1987.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local departs Proler Steel with nine loads of scrap for processing at Lead Mine in Bingham Canyon.

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.

Union Pacific's PVSC local awaits its turn to enter Rio Grande's eastward main track while both east and westbound trains breeze by at Lakota Junction. In the fall of 1985, the old diamond interlo... (more)

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.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local departs Lead Mine in Bingham Canyon with nine empties for reloading scrap at Proler Steel near Copperton. D&RGW's remaining trackage leading up to Bingham Canyon i... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local runs around its 10 car train on the Proler Steel passing track near Copperton. Oddly enough, both of these tracks still exist in 2013, although they are now on Ken... (more)

UP 729 sits next to a number of CNW and UP SD40-2s, as well as BN U33C locomotives at the North Platte Diesel Service facility. Photograph taken with permission.

A Santa Fe eastbound crawls through a slow order past the site of the derailment just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rains cause track damage in the area, requiring work crews to repai... (more)

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