None other than Rio Grande's first steel caboose awaits a call to duty in local transfer service out of Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The 01400 was built new at Burnham Shops in Denver in 1940.

A relic even back in 1977, D&RGW Water Car X010885 awaits its next assignment in work train duty out of Roper Yard. The small tank car was built for the D&RGW in July 1915. If I knew then what I k... (more)

D&RGW Switch Caboose 01393 awaits a call to duty at Rio Grande's Roper Yard in Salt Lake City. The heritage of this caboose is showing through the black paint, 'Denver & Salt Lake'. The D&SL merge... (more)

A Rio Grande piggyback trailer is pictured being loaded on D&RGW's 'Railblazer' train #102 at Roper Yard. The spiffy clean GP40-2's had just been pulled from service off the Rio Grande Ski Train o... (more)

The surroundings are pure Rio Grande as SW1200 #132 rambles beneath the Roper Yard pedestrian bridge on July 2, 1976. I definitely miss 'The Action Road'.

A plethora of EMD yard goats are spotted on the east and west hooky tracks at Roper Diesel shop in South Salt Lake. Note the D&RGW shop worker's garb before the days when the FRA mandated what emp... (more)

A Rio Grande SW1000 shares terminal space with Steam Generator car 250 at the Roper diesel shop. Lurking in the background on the fuel/sanding track is a brace of Southern Pacific EMDs, prepped to... (more)

Here's a southward view of Rio Grande's Roper Yard as viewed from the employee skybridge just north of the diesel shop. Lots of interesting detail offering the viewer a window into what railroadin... (more)

Salt Lake City Southern 2253 (NREX, ex-SSW) pauses briefly at the Union Pacific – Rio Grande crossing in South Salt Lake. Crew members Bruce Weaver and Marty Petersen were working local industri... (more)

All dressed up in flashy SPSF merger colors, SP SD45R 7562 prepares to depart Rio Grande's Roper Yard for Ogden and points west. By 1985, the Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger was opposed by the Ju... (more)

The physical appearance of Utah Railway's parent company Genesee & Wyoming has been less than obvious in many ways since the acquisition of the Utah shortline in 2005. Things are changing around S... (more)

Utah Railway's RUT312 local prepares to duck under the 39th South bridge on the approach to CP RG741, East Roper. These rails were once a part of Rio Grande's double track Subdivision 6.

It seems that Union Pacific's Roper Terminal near 21st South in South Salt Lake is about to be veiled by yet another overpass. This time though, it's not a freeway ramp, but a railroad bridge. Uta... (more)

Union Pacific 3642's glory days of hauling high speed traffic on the mainline are a distant memory now. Years ago, this SD40-2 was set up as an RCL switcher, and has been held captive at UP's form... (more)

Union Pacific's YRO51R switcher works a paper recycling industry in Utah's city of South Salt Lake. The GP38-2 on the point, wearing a glossy coat of Armour yellow paint was built the Southern Pac... (more)