On the morning of the Bicentennial of the United States of America, the Rio Grande Zephyr heads east into Spanish Fork Canyon during its journey from Salt Lake City to Denver.

A new SD40T-2 leads a Rio Grande freight through the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon on May 13, 1976.

Catching an off road business car on the Rio Grande Zephyr was rare to the extreme. A Union Pacific car was coupled just ahead of Rio Grande's Wilson McCarthy on train No. 17 the evening of Aug. 5... (more)

An astonishing power consist that includes three F45s and four SD40-2s pull the Martin Turn east through Mapleton on Sept. 6, 1985. The train has 13 loads of ballast on the head with the balance o... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50s leads Southern Pacific's ROHPC through Mapleton on March 19, 1995.

A big bad 'photo cloud' did its best to spoil my shot of SP's CHROM, but I won! Ha!

Five EMD GP40s lead Rio Grande train 181 just outside of Spanish Fork Canyon on May 14, 1988.

So . . . who's ready for winter? Rio Grande train No. 142 glides through snowy Mapleton on Christmas Eve, 1987. The 5391 continues to solider on, employed by the Wheeling & Lake Erie and looking m... (more)

A well matched trio of GE C41-8Ws (UP 9412, UP 9413, UP 9417) lead an SP coal train through rural Mapleton on Sept. 22, 1992. The UP 9412 would be destroyed in a wreck on Nov. 18, 1995 at Laramie,... (more)

SP's hot Oakland to Denver Forwarder snakes through Mapleton's Mud Cut the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1993. The rear portion of the train can be seen above the green field of alfalfa.

SP's Valley Camp to Intermountain Power coal train descends a 1% grade into Mud Cut near Mapleton on May 9, 1993. 9088 ft. Maple Mountain, rising 4400 ft. above the valley floor, has received a ni... (more)

Impressive storm lighting over the nearby Wasatch ratchets up the drama of a Rio Grande grain load heading west through Mapleton on June 10, 1989. The quartet of UP SD40-2s were pooled from Denver... (more)

Southern Pacific's premier observation car 'Stanford' takes a tour of the D&RGW on Amtrak's California Zephyr. The heavyweight business car was built by the Pullman Company for the SP in 1927. Tra... (more)

With a new EMD GP60 on the point, Southern Pacific's CHSZT stack train glides west through Mud Cut in Mapleton.

Southern Pacific's Geneva, Utah to Terror Creek, Colorado coal empty roars east through Mapleton on April 23, 1995.