My very first visit to Rio Grande's Roper Yard on New Year's Eve 1976 yielded this amazing grouping of locomotives. Whenever I hear about EMD's 'SD45' model, I always think of the Southern Pacific... (more)

A UTA Green Line train has reached the end of the rainbow approaching the Jordan Surplus Canal girder bridge in South Salt Lake. Once the train crosses the bridge, it will be in West Valley City a... (more)

A new GP40-2 awaits the call to serve on Western Pacific's mainline out of Salt Lake City. The 3546 was built by EMD for the WP in July 1979.

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)

Serviced by the D&RGW at Roper Diesel Shop in South Salt Lake, a trio of WP locomotives await an assignment to haul traffic west to Nevada and California. The WP 3539 is a GP40, built by EMD for t... (more)

A Rio Grande SW1200 mingles with surplus steam generator cars at Roper Yard in South Salt Lake.

The Rio Grande transported solid fuel rocket motors for Hercules at Baccus, Utah to military installations via refrigerated containers on 53 ft. flat cars. Car 80003B, part of an A-B articulated s... (more)

Serviced and ready to serve, a Rio Grande GP40-2 awaits a call east out of Roper Yard. D&RGW 3098 was built by EMD for the Grande in April 1972.

Rio Grande's Railblazer train No. 102 departs the Roper Piggyback Terminal at 5:55 pm for its 14 hour, 570 mile overnight journey to Denver. That's an overall average of just under 41 mph that inc... (more)

Already 10 years of age and looking great (blt. Jan. 1977), Rio Grande SD40T-2 #5380 awaits its next assignment at Roper Yard in South Salt Lake.

First generation EMDs congregate along Rio Grande's Roper diesel shop in South Salt Lake.

Rio Grande's first of 26 SD45s has been serviced and awaits a call to serve east out of Roper Yard. The 5315 was built by EMD for the D&RGW in January 1967 and was retired by the SP in July 1994. ... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp local arrives at Roper Yard with a handful of cars from Kenecott Copper.

Rio Grande Scale Test car X-450 was used to calibrate track scales throughout the D&RGW system. Buillt by Southwark-Baldwin in Feb. 1945, it continues to serve even today on the Union Pacific Rail... (more)

Due to a fatal automobile accident involving Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp in West Jordan, the D&RGW sought ways to increase the train's visibility. SD9 #5310 was modified to include a oscillating Gy... (more)