Rio Grande GP30 3011 is descending through the horse shoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon on the way to Denver. 3011 is now a survivor at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

Former Denver & Rio Grande Western EMD GP30 No. 3011 is one of the many unique Rio Grande artifacts collected at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. Here, a faded Rio Grande logo still spreads... (more)

In what almost looks like a GP30 gaining ground on a Kenworth is actually Rio Grande No. 3011 being trucked through a temporary gap in the fencing at the Colorado Railroad Museum on August 11, 200... (more)

After retrieving a long cut of bulkhead flats for loading gypsum board at Sigurd, the Salina Local departs Provo Yard on Feb. 19, 1977. The local will travel 20 miles along the mainline through Sp... (more)

A Rio Grande mixed freight heads east through Springville on Jan. 10, 1976. EMD GP30 No. 3011 is undergoing restoration at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

A work train assigned to install a fiber optic cable line along the former D&RGW emerges from the Jordan Narrows into the Salt Lake Valley approaching Riverton on May 18, 1993.

SP's Provo based 2UT08L local rambles along the Tintic Branch with 14 loads of pipe bound for the Goshen Valley. From Elberta, the pipe will help construct a 1,679 mile natural gas pipeline line e... (more)

Fourteen cars of pipe creep along at 5 mph through Utah's Goshen Valley, bound for Elberta where it will be used to help construct a 1,679 mile natural gas pipeline line extending from southwester... (more)

Rio Grande's 953 work train returns to Roper after spending the day retrieving old 39 ft. section rail along the mainline at American Fork. This GP30 is now property of the Colorado Railroad Museu... (more)

Oversize load
On the afternoon of August 11, 2004, Denver and Rio Grande Western GP30 No. 3011 is on its way to the Colorado railroad Museum on the streets. With no outside rail connect... (more)

Street running!
Well, not really, but Denver and Rio Grande Western GP30 No. 3011 is on its way to the Colorado railroad Museum on the streets. With no outside rail connection, the loco... (more)

A Rio Grande freight with three GP30s and two GP35s for power departs Provo for Salt Lake City. This Kodachrome transparency is one of my very first, shot in Oct. 1973 with a new Russian made Cosm... (more)

The Rio Grande hauled several carloads of pipe for a natural gas pipeline project for Kern River in Utah's Goshen Valley. A pair of GP30s and two GP40s haul the heavy train along the foothills of ... (more)

Sperry Rail Service employees give their track detector car a good bath while a Rio Grande manifest makes a pickup at Provo Yard.

Rio Grande's Salina Local departs Provo Yard for a journey down the Marysvale Branch at Thistle. Two box cars and a long cut of bulkhead flats will be set out at the wallboard plant in Sigurd, Uta... (more)