The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus train passes the Ash Grove Cement Plant in Leamington Canyon on June 14, 2016. The 59 car special was traveling between Colorado Springs, Colorado ... (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)

Three GP60s and a single SD45R lead SP's Roper to Denver Forwarder east through Spanish Fork Canyon on Feb. 19, 1995.

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Photographed during transit to its new home in the Beehive State, Utah Railway SD45-2 #9012 awaits departure from Salt Lake City to Provo. It was built a standard SD45-2 by EMD for the Santa Fe as... (more)

The crew of the Roper '2:59 Drag' have just arrived at the Rio Grande Cafe, housed in the coffee shop of D&RGW-WP Salt Lake City passenger station. The crew often timed their routine so as to arri... (more)

Wasatch Mountain Railway's tradition of running doubleheaders on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends continued into the late 1970s. Two steam engines from the White Mountain Scenic Railway at McNa... (more)

A classic Rio Grande caboose shows off its new coat of Aspen Gold paint during a brief pause at Provo Yard. The D&RGW 01409 was built Rio Grande employees at the Burnham Shop in Denver in November... (more)

Rarely did the Rio Grande Zephyr cross the Wasatch and the Rocky Mountains with only two F9s for power, but it did happen at times when the consist was light. Train No. 18 from Salt Lake City is l... (more)

With the sun setting behind the Wasatch Mountains, Union Pacific's daily Denver-Salt Lake freight crosses from main 1 to main 2 at West Summit. UP MOW forces had recently dumped new ballast throug... (more)

With a quartet of EMD GP60s for power, SP's hot Oakland to Denver Forwarder snakes through Price Canyon on Sept. 4, 1993.

SP's Denver to Roseville Forwarder, with its usual quartet of GP60s, glides west through the Jordan Narrows the evening of July 9, 1993.

A pair of EMDs from the horsepower race of 1960s are air tested and ready to depart Provo for Salt Lake City. The UP 83, a DD35A, was blt. in June 1965 while the UP 3646, an SD45, was blt. in Marc... (more)

A Utah Railway coal empty meets a Pueblo CF&I rail train at Castle Gate on Sept. 7, 1996.

An 84 car Denver to Roper manifest glides west through Spanish Fork Canyon on an overcast January 2, 1995 afternoon.