A Union Pacific Herzog ballast empty is captured in early morning light through pastureland at Springville, Utah. The 73 car train from the Green River, Utah area is headed west for reloading at a... (more)

On a warm summer morning in 1990, Rio Grande's UT08L local rambles slowly down the Tintic Branch about a mile west of the mainline junction at Springville, Utah. This long train of covered hoppers... (more)

Captured moments after sunrise, Union Pacific's Roper, UT to Helper, UT manifest heads east up main #1 just east of Springville, Utah. This train had only 12 cars, making this the Provo Subdivisio... (more)

An interesting bank of low cumulous clouds, remnants from an overnight storm blanket the Provo-Springville area while UP's LUL57 local departs with cars for Spanish Fork, Juab, Martmar, and Lynndy... (more)

A Utah Railway Savage coal load emerges from Mud Cut on the Mapleton Bench just east of Springville, Utah. This train would be interchanged with the Union Pacific at Provo to be forwarded to the I... (more)

A pair of EMD GP15-1's rock slowly back and forth along the jointed rail of Union Pacific's Tintic Branch near Springville, Utah. The Tintic was completed by the Rio Grande in 1899 to tap the mine... (more)

A Union Pacific Herzog ballast train charges east up main #1 at CP RG696, Springville. The train was loaded the previous day at Murdock, UT on the Lynndyl Sub and is destined to dump ballast in Pr... (more)

Union Pacific's Trona, CA to Skyline, UT coal empty climbs the 1.1% grade of the Mapleton Bench at Evergreen Road east of Springville, Utah. At right, 11,068 ft. Provo Peak rises to meet the clear... (more)

UDOT opened a brand new overpass across UP's Sharp Sub at 4th South in Springville, Utah. Benefiting from the new elevated perspective we witness UP's LUL57 'Lynndyl Local' breezing by the Intermo... (more)

UDOT opened a brand new overpass across UP's Sharp Sub at 4th South in Springville, Utah. Benefiting from the new elevated perspective we witness an IPP coal empty approaching the Intermountain Po... (more)

A double DPU shoves on the tail end of BNSF Railway's Denver, CO to Provo, UT Q-train headed west through Springville, Utah. A Union Pacific eastbound train is visible at right, crossing the Hobbl... (more)

Captured from the old 4th South overpass west of town, BNSF's Stockton, CA to Denver, CO trackage rights manifest charges east up main #2 along the former D&RGW at Springville, Utah. The second un... (more)

Union Pacific's '57' local departs Springville, Utah with 38 cars of traffic for industries along the Sharp Subdivision. A recent snow storm has left it's mark along 11,749 ft. Mt. Timpanogos.

It appears that the slow economy has affected traffic along UP's Sharp Subdivision in Utah. Union Pacific's LUL57 local is departing the Provo area with two cars of grain for Moroni Feed at Nephi,... (more)

A Utah Railway coal empty awaits departure from the IPP Rail Car Service Center at Springville while a storm system rolls in from the southwest.