MARTIN UTAH Aug 6 1981 — Utah Railway RSD-4 301 is tied down and awaiting its fate. Alco built the unit (b/n 78948) in February 1952 and delivered it on Feb 29 1952. It went into service on Mar ... (more)

Thunder in the Wasatch

A set of Alco RSD-4 locomotives idle at the Martin Shops while Rio Grande's Ford Fast train departs Helper on an overcast Nov. 19, 1978.

An astonishing NINE classic Alcos assigned as mid-train helpers, work a Utah Railway coal train approach Soldier Summit the afternoon of Sept. 3, 1978. The consist includes RSD-4s No. 301, 300, 30... (more)

One of my earliest Kodachrome Slides, photographed when I was just 14 years of age, catches a Utah Railway Provo to Martin Turn cruising east through Spanish Fork Canyon on June 24, 1976. In the l... (more)

Thanks to Ryan Ballard for acting a guide.