A UTA FrontRunner commute and UP's LJL40 local run side by side through Lakota Junction in Orem on July 8, 2014. With a 79 mph track speed, the FrontRunner easily beat the UP local to Provo.

A Union Pacific Railroad billboard along U.S. Highway 89 in Utah promotes the company's locomotive prowess. June 23, 1976

The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 glides east through the dual signal bridges at Geneva on May 23, 1976.

Wasatch Front area railfans were treated to the rare visit of an SP SD7R, assigned to work the UT04L local out of Geneva and headed for Provo Yard on May 9, 1993. The SP 1517 was built the SP 5293... (more)

Union Pacific's LUF51 local enters the Provo Subdivision main while Rio Grande's hot DVROT glides by at Lakota Junction. The track at upper left and upper right once crossed the D&RGW at grade unt... (more)

A Rio Grande track inspector rumbles along the D&RGW mainline at Geneva Steel on a stormy March 16, 1991 afternoon. Soon the Southern Pacific Railroad will replace the old Fairmont Speeders with n... (more)

Rio Grande's mixed freight 142 has a colorful power consist as it rolls through Utah County approaching Lakota Junction on June 16, 1989. The fifth engine was a big surprise in the form of Rio Gra... (more)

An EMD GP40 and GP35 combo lead Rio Grande's Railblazer train 103 through Lakota Junction at 7:16 a.m. on June 12, 1989. Trains 102 and 103 departed their terminal of origin (Denver or Salt Lake C... (more)

A four pack of big EMDs drag Rio Grande's Helper Local east out of Geneva Steel while a spring storm system blows across Happy Valley on April 26, 1989.

Rio Grande's 649 local cruises west through rural Lakota Junction on March 21, 1989.

Rio Grande's 662 local departs Geneva Steel with a lengthy train of cars for Provo Yard.

A shiny Southern Pacific SD45T-2R leads Amtrak's California Zephyr train 6 through Happy Valley approaching Lakota Junction.

Union Pacific's OMIGV slowly backs its train into Utah's Geneva Steel mill with 105 Minntac ore loads from Mountain Iron, Minnesota.

Pictured minutes after sunrise, a UTA FrontRunner commute prepares to stop at the Orem Station on its 90 mile journey from Provo to Ogden. In the past, this area was called 'Lakota Crossing' when ... (more)

Relegated to secondary assignments, UP SD40 3016 leads UP's Provo Switcher through a rural area north of Provo on July 26, 1986. The 3016 was built new for the UP by EMD in March 1966 and would be... (more)