A trio of EMD tunnel motors lead Rio Grande's 143 train through fields of wheat and corn near Springville on June 26, 1989. The 5341 is D&RGW's first SD40T-2, built for the Grande by EMD in Oct. 1... (more)

Rio Grande's 662 local enters the Tintic Branch while departing the eastward main track at Springville. The crew has several stops to make including a GS gondola load of scrap for Spanish Fork, co... (more)

Rio Grande ballast train 648 takes the shorter but steeper westward main track up the Mapleton Bench on June 6, 1988.

The Helper Local departs Provo with 84 empties for loading at the coal mines in Carbon County.

There was a time when the Utah County community of Springville was a rural area with fields of alfalfa and farm animals along the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. 24 years ago, Rio Grande's R... (more)

Rio Grande's Railblazer train 102 is pictured on a super elevated curve approaching Springville on April 5, 1989. The trio of clean EMDs had just been released from the Denver to Winter Park Ski T... (more)

Here's the one and only time I've witnessed a Southern Pacific GP40X, not realizing it until the slide was scanned 25 years hence! Apparently the SP had a roster of four of them, built by EMD in 1... (more)

Rio Grande's Railblazer train 102 crosses rural 16th South street on the outskirts of Springville the evening of Aug. 14, 1988. This particular 102 had a pair of Burlington Northern 45 ft. piggyba... (more)

Rio Grande's Helper Local blasts off from Provo Yard after making a pickup on July 31, 1988. The well groomed track in the foreground leads to a nearby Stouffer's plant.

Rio Grande Maintenance of Way forces were busy dumping slag ballast along the westward main track east of Springville the morning of July 22, 1988.

Rio Grande's 200 train roars east on the westward main track at Springville soon after sunrise.

A trio of brand new GE AC4400CWs lead a Southern Pacific coal empty ascending the Mapleton Bench east of Springville, Utah.

Union Pacific's LUL57 local rambles west through mature corn fields on the Sharp Sub at Springville, Utah. UP 2069 wears the short lived 'baby wings' logo, applied only to 50 UP units between 2001... (more)

After serving industries along the Tintic Industrial Lead in Spanish Fork, UP's LJL41 local approaches the Provo Sub mainline connection at Springville. Note the brakeman waiting patiently as trai... (more)

The Utah Railway Company is in the business of hauling crude oil, trucked to Helper from the Uintah Basin and hauled by rail to refineries in North Salt Lake. Some of the crude is shipped east of ... (more)