In fading evening light, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 arrives at the Provo station stop. Most of what you see in this perspective from the University Avenue overpass is gone today, including the D&RGW brick depot which opened in 1910 and was demolished in 1986. I really dig the three digit phone number on the old Provo Hide & Fur building. Rio Grande dispatcher console five has provided engineer Frank Disorbio with a highball at Positive Block ABS 7013W.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
