A heavy Rio Grande lumber drag rolls east through Provo Yard on New Year's Eve, 1976.
Union Pacific's Provo Switcher departs town with cars for Geneva Steel on Dec. 30, 1976.
Rio Grande's Salina Local makes a switch move at Grundy's crossover in Provo Yard while a westbound mixed freight approaches from Ironton. Dec. 26, 1975
Rio Grande's Salina Local slows to make a pickup at Provo Yard on Dec. 26, 1976. Caboose 01418 has been preserved at Utah's Heber Valley Railroad.
A Union Pacific SD45 meets a classic quintet of Utah Railway RSD-5s at Provo Yard on Dec. 26, 1976.
A pair of Rio Grande SD45s await a call on a Keiser unit coal train while a Union Pacific SW9 idles away near the old UP car shop. Dec. 12, 1976
A rhythmic quintet of Alco RSD5s await the chance to haul coal at Provo Yard on Dec. 26, 1976.
An interesting lash up of EMD power await a call at Union Pacific's Provo Yard on Dec. 13, 1975. Included in the group are an SD24, a GP30B, an SD24B, a GP30, and a Rio Grande SD45.
Rio Grande's Tintic Local meets the Provo Switcher on a beautiful October afternoon in 1975.
The Silver Sky dome observation car trails the Rio Grande Zephyr through Provo Junction on a frigid Dec. 2, 1975 morning.
The stainless steel flanks of the Rio Grande Zephyr gleam in the setting sun departing Provo on July 19, 1975.
Power Couple!
Power for Rio Grande's Salina Local arrives at Provo Yard to pick up its train.
A well matched six pack of Utah Railway RSD5s deliver Alco's distinctive 'ditty-rump, ditty-rump, ditty-rump' chant on Christmas Day, 1976.
One of my favorite 'high hood' EMDs, Rio Grande SD9 No. 5310 works the morning switch job at Provo Yard on Dec. 12, 1976.