Rio Grande's No. 799 coal load exits the westward main track while entering the plant lead at Geneva Steel the morning of May 23, 1988. The 799 train loaded the previous day in Carbon County at Su... (more)

Rio Grande's Helper Local pulls to clear the CTC switches at Geneva prior to backing into the steel mill yard. The three EMD tunnel motors likely had sufficient power to pull eight empty freight c... (more)

Geneva Steel SW9 No. 44 shoves scrap loads through the south gate of the Vineyard, Utah mill. GS 44 was previously employed by the Carbon County Railway shuffling hoppers of coal to the Rio Grande... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo Switcher departs the mainline to access Geneva's Pipemill in Vineyard. Nearby Utah Lake is visible in the background, not far from the track.

A pair of EMD GP30s lead a short Rio Grande local west through the CTC switches at Geneva on Oct. 21, 1987. Dispatcher 5 has also lined an eastbound train through Geneva, approaching from the sing... (more)

Rio Grande lumber drag No. 148 is bracketed by agriculture and industrial might at Geneva Steel. At this point in time, the mill was shut down but reactivation by local ownership was days away. Th... (more)

An abbreviated Rio Grande train #187 rolls west through Geneva with 16 cars and a caboose. The 187 is slowing to meet the 'Railblazer', train #102 at Pipe Mill, the west end of 83 miles of two mai... (more)

With three SD40T-2s and two SD50s for power, Rio Grande coal train #775 rolls west approaching the single track mainline at Pipe Mill. In the distance, some 20 miles away by rail, an overnight sto... (more)

A succession of wet winters elevated Utah Lake to an historic level by 1986. Rio Grande forest products train #136 greets local fisherman catching their limit along the D&RGW in Vineyard, Utah.

Rio Grande local #675 makes a switch move with a handful of ballast empties, a bulkhead flat, and a caboose on the Geneva Pipe Mill Spur in Vineyard. Snowy 11,749 ft. Mt. Timpanogos looms in the b... (more)

Rio Grande GP9 #5904, dressed in 'Billboard Grande' livery, sets out a string of flat cars for loading on the Geneva Pipe Mill Spur in Vineyard, Utah. In the background at right is 'Slag Mountain'... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #5 pauses briefly while Rio Grande dispatcher 5 recites a 'permissive card' to allow the train to flag a red signal at a CTC controlled switch in Utah County known... (more)

With two EMD SD50s for power, a Rio Grande auto train heads east through Geneva.

A Rio Grande work train loads ballast hoppers with steel mill slag on the Geneva Pipe Mill Spur on April 20, 1987. The 3010 would be wrecked at Cliff, Colorado on Sept. 30, 1991 and sold for scrap... (more)

On a bitter cold January day in 1994, Geneva Steel plant switcher 44 works the east side yard at the Vineyard mill. The little SW9 was transferred to Geneva from Utah's Carbon County Railway (CCRY... (more)