An everyday routine that is all part of history now. Kennecott copper used to run ore trains between the concentrator and smelter. It all done by pipe line slurry/conveyor now. So glad my dad was ... (more)

A trio of high cab GP39-2 794, 797, 795, are running south with an empty or train. Between the Smelter and the Loadout in Copperton.

The train affectionately know as the tramp. Rio Grande 3008, SP 7856, and Rio Grande 3015 are out on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. The train is on the return trip on the Garfield Branch, ... (more)

GP38-2 2007 belches some black smoke, as it notches up on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley on the Garfield Branch.

I was out shoveling a couple feet of snow off my driveway, when I heard a train horn in the distance. Seizing my chance I ran into the house and grabbed my camera. I was able to capture the Savage... (more)

Savage Bingham & Garfield B36-7s No. 3612 and 3611 have five loads of steel beams for SME Steel in West Jordan on Presidents' Day, 2008.

Utah Railway's RUT311 local navigates the Welby wye in West Jordan along the former D&RGW Garfield Branch on Oct. 24, 1997.

Having spent the better part of the morning working at Lead Mine in Bingham Canyon, Rio Grande GP30s No. 3007 and 3017 drift downgrade past Interstate Brick in West Jordan's Bagley Industrial Park... (more)

Rio Grande GP30s No. 3001, 3021, and 3004 pull a 10 car Midvale Tramp through West Jordan on Dec. 26, 1992. The train is leaving the Bingham Branch on the Welby wye and entering the Garfield Branc... (more)

Rio Grande GP30s 3004, 3003, and 3014 were called on December 5, 1987 to assist with a minor derailment cleanup at Welby Yard in West Jordan.

Rio Grande's first GP30 leads the Midvale Tramp local from the Welby Wye west toward Lead Mine up in Bingham Canyon. This right of way is now occupied by a road that connects 90th South with the B... (more)

Light Rail Transit Can Be Electrifying

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp wanders down the steep Bingham Branch with five cars on Oct. 17, 1986. Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine is in the distance, nestled in the nearby Oquirrh Mountains... (more)

Rio Grande GP40-2s 3122, 3120, and 3105 make a switch move across the Bingham Highway with two empties from SME Steel in the Bagley Industrial Park of West Jordan. July 26, 1996

Twenty years ago, much of the far west side of the Salt Lake Valley was a windswept plain with fields of winter wheat and a handful of industrial rail lines. Cotton Belt GP60 9671 leads a 15 car M... (more)