Rio Grande's Provo Switcher returns home with 12 loads of welded seam pipe retrieved from Geneva's Pipe Mill spur in Vineyard, Utah. The verdant fields of corn and alfalfa are today filled with hi... (more)
Rio Grande's Salina Local meets a westbound through freight at Provo Yard. Check out the WP and CRIP 'Route Rock' box cars ahead of caboose 01444.
Rio Grande's Salina Local stops to pick up its train at Provo Yard.
It seems far removed today, but in the mid-1970s, Rio Grande coal train swing helps were powered by EMD GP30s, GP35s, GP40s, and GP40-2s. A healthy five pack of four axle EMDs are pictured cutting... (more)
Rio Grande's 'Salina Local' is stopped at the Provo Yard office, prior to retrieving a cut of cars for industries along the Marysvale Branch south of Thistle. GP40-2 #3121 was built new for the Ri... (more)
3121 leads a long line of D&RGW power at Denver, North Yard, in September 1981, while a Canadian visitor rests on the next road.
Strange bedfellows at North Yard, Denver - DRGW 3121 rubs shoulders with GP40-2L CN 9607, the latter on trial on the D&RGW (with another 5 sisters) for the then new Super Series creep control, in ... (more)