A Rio Grande home built caboose trails an eastbound manifest through Soldier Summit on July 14, 1979. An open autorack loaded with new 1979 Chevy Monte Carlos take a tour of the scenic D&RGW.

After making ceremonial stops in Cedar City, Milford, Delta, and Tintic (Eureka), Union Pacific's Utah Statehood Centennial train heads east on the Lynndyl Sub for additional stops at Warner (Tooe... (more)

Power Couple!

All is quiet on a snowless Christmas Eve at Provo Yard in 1976. One of Union Pacific's TR5 "cow and calf" switchers takes the afternoon off at the engine servicing facility. Provo terminal was hom... (more)

Photographed on Kodachrome more than two years after America's Bicentennial celebration, WP 1776 awaits servicing at D&RGW's Roper Diesel Shop in South Salt Lake. GP40 1776 was built the WP 3540 b... (more)

Nearly two years after the WP-UP merger, more than a dozen Western Pacific locomotives were stored, neglected, and eventually retired in Salt Lake City. Image photographed on Kodachrome 25 film on... (more)

A fine quartet of standard cab EMDs pull Southern Pacific's RVKCM through the center siding at Gilluly on Aug. 24, 1996.

My dad was a weekend engineer/fireman for the Wasatch Mountain Railway (aka the 'Heber Creeper'). He is pictured in the cab of former Pacific Lumber Company 2-8-2 No. 35, built by Baldwin Locomoti... (more)

A colorful power consist leads the RVKCM east through West Gilluly as viewed from East Gilluly on the opposite side of Spanish Fork Canyon, Oct. 5, 1996. Track profile charts indicate the photogra... (more)

Rio Grande's one and only 'chop nose' SD9 works at the hump yard in Grand Junction on June 14, 1981.

The D&RGW ran an expanded Rio Grande Zephyr consist on February 25-26, 1978 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Moffat Tunnel. Management determined the trio of F9s were insuff... (more)

A busy moment is captured on Kodachrome at Gilluly: D&RGW Dispatcher 5 Jack Lawrence has held a heavy eastbound lumber drag on the eastward main track to allow the Sunday morning Rio Grande Zephyr... (more)

An incredible lashup of 19 UP locomotives head east through Echo Canyon at Emory, Utah. This light engine move which originated at Stockton, California would terminate at East North Platte, Nebras... (more)

The process of completely rebuilding the upper 30 miles of UP's Cane Creek Subdivision in Utah has required several months but the completion of the work is drawing near. A few newly installed cro... (more)

Rio Grande veteran SD40T-2 #5371 takes a breather on the service tracks at Helper yard. The D&RGW 5371 is more than 31 years old with it's original EMD factory applied paint and road number. Not ... (more)