Rio Grande's Helper Local has been assigned to haul a pair of bad ordered Amtrak passenger cars through Price Canyon, bound for Salt Lake City on Feb. 11, 1989.

Good Morning Midvale! The ever-present Midvale Tramp prepares to head west down the Bingham Branch while track inspector Velarde gives Amtrak's California Zephyr a good roll by on the main. Photo ... (more)

A short Union Pacific work train meets a 179 car MRONP at the east end of Emory, Utah.

After shoving a westbound train to Kyune, a pair of Rio Grande SD40T-2 helpers glide east across the Willow Creek girder bridge at Castle Gate on August 11, 1996.

A piece of D&RGW history is being 'unmade' as salvaging crews scrap the former Rio Grande Sugarhouse Spur at Lake Street crossing in Salt Lake County. What became a two mile spur in the end was co... (more)

Good Morning Colorado! A lineup of Southern Pacific power await a chance to tackle Tennessee Pass spotted at Minturn Yard on Sept. 27, 1996. Winter has a tendency to arrive early in Minturn, some ... (more)

In my opinion, if you are going to substitute a freight engine on a classic streamliner, do it right! A stylish EMD GP30 leads the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 17, stopped briefly at Provo station.... (more)

On January 16, 1989, Rio Grande's 101 train glides westward through Provo, Utah. On Feb. 9, 1989, the D&RGW 3108 would be destroyed in a wreck on Tennessee Pass at Pando, Colorado.

A pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s haul a long train of forest products at the foot of Mt. Shasta. Huh? Not at all! A power short Union Pacific leased McCloud River SD38s #36-37 in 1988, and a... (more)

On March 5, 1977, Rio Grande's Bucyrus Derrick 027, a steam powered wrecker (based out of Roper Yard) was called to clean up a coal train derailment on the Union Pacific interchange track at Unive... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger special, run to commemorate the Idaho Statehood Centennial, zips east along the Salt Lake Sub at the Glovers Lane overpass in Farmington. The nine car train will be route... (more)

Three MPI MK5000Cs and a single SD40 lead a Utah Railway coal train through Spring Canyon on January 6, 2001. Beginning late in Oct. 2000, the Utah Railway began testing three MK5000C locomotives,... (more)

A short Ogden, UT to Green River, WY work train breezes east through Echo Canyon at Emory, Utah. A United States Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration coach trails the UP 67... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5353, 5373, 5401, and 5410 drift into Helper Yard at the Art Deco style Janet Street bridge on April 20, 2000.

Showing signs of a hard life hauling Utah coal, Rio Grande SD45s 5338 and 5327 await their next assignment out of Helper on a Kaiser unit coal train from Sunnyside, Utah. The 20 cylinder duo were ... (more)