A trio of EMD SD60s lead Rio Grande #734 through Springville, bound for the Skyline coal load out on the Pleasant Valley Branch in Carbon County.

Reportedly the last EMD SW1001 ever built (April 1985), IPPX #1 basks in the afternoon sunlight at the Intermountain Power Railcar Service Center in Springville, Utah. The attractively painted swi... (more)

Reportedly the last EMD SW1001 ever built (April 1985), IPPX #1 basks in the afternoon sunlight at the Intermountain Power Railcar Service Center in Springville, Utah. The attractively painted swi... (more)

Same train, same power, different day--the LUL57 with 16 cars approaches the beginning of CTC on the Sharp Subdivision. The milepost for P-749 is just off the left edge of the frame.

A Union Pacific Las Vegas to Salt Lake City officer's special glides north through rural Springville, Utah. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency taken via the deck of the 14th North bridge where... (more)

A short (6 car) LUL57 enters the Sharp Subdivision and lights up a track indication for UP Omaha Dispatcher 5 at CP P-749, the beginning of westbound CTC, south-southeast of the Provo yards. End C... (more)

Belching out a buildup of carbon from idling overnight, a matched pair of Rio Grande GP9s depart Ironton for Geneva's dolomite quarry at Keigley. The two SP box cars behind the power will be set o... (more)

D&RGW GP30 # 3007 leads two other brethren through the Ironton Crossovers with the Tintic Branch local.

A Chicago & North Western C44-9W leads SP's Skyline to Intermountain Power coal load down the former D&RGW, approaching Springville, Utah.

While mainline railfanning is fun in its own right, from time to time I like to follow a branchline local. UP's LJL41 (based out of Provo) heads west along the former D&RGW Tintic Branch at milepo... (more)

The assignment for the 7765, a distributed power unit, is to shove UP's eastbound MRONY train some 570 miles from Salt Lake City to Denver. At this location, the DPU is working hard to push the lo... (more)

Bright and early and on the road to Lynndyl! Union Pacific's LUL57 local begins it's journey westward, departing on the Sharp Sub at Springville, Utah. Nine box cars will be set out at Longview Fi... (more)

Union Pacific's LJL41 switch job takes a stroll along the former D&RGW Tintic Branch, half a mile from the mainline connection at Springville. This early morning local originates at Provo Yard and... (more)

Union Pacific's LUL57 local has begun it's day of work along UP's Sharp Subdivision in Central Utah. Today's stops will include Longview Fiber in Spanish Fork, grain for the team track at Juab, an... (more)

Utah Southern Railroad's iron ore train is returning from Stockton, CA to Iron Springs, UT for reloading with a matched set of GEVO units (UP 7881, 7919, and 7679). The 81 car train is westbound o... (more)