Union Pacific's Provo based LUL57 local heads west on the Sharp Sub through Springville with eight cars on Sept. 27, 2016.

Union Pacific's Provo based LUL41 local leads four cars into the town of Spanish Fork on Sept. 27, 2016. 11,752 ft. Mt. Timpanogos can be seen on the north side of Utah Valley.

When I was growing up in Provo, Utah, I never dreamed that one day my hometown would host a 90 mile commuter rail line to Salt Lake City and Ogden. An inbound train from the north is stopped at Pr... (more)

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train snakes through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon on its 575 mile journey from Salt Lake City to Denver on Sept. 27, 2016.

Union Pacific SD40-2s No. 3152, 3628, and 3395 lead a 93 car Proviso to Los Angeles stack train through Tintic Valley on July 25, 1994.

A northbound UTA FrontRunner commute travels through a shadowy Jordan Narrows between the Lehi and Draper station stops on Sept. 24, 2016.

BNSF Railway's Provo, Utah to Stockton, California trackage rights manifest freight heads west through the Jordan Narrows with 102 cars on Sept. 24, 2016.

BNSF Railway's Stockton, California to Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest freight heads east through the Jordan Narrows with 37 cars on Sept. 24, 2016.

Union Pacific's Pioneer Local and Utah Railway's RUT311 are pictured at North Yard in Salt Lake City on a stormy Sept. 23, 2016 evening.

A Union Pacific Intermountain Power coal train is refueled at Provo prior to departing on the former D&RGW for a long journey east to Grand Junction and the West Elk mine on the North Fork Sub in ... (more)

Union Pacific's LJL41 local drags 19 loads of steel beams and lumber for Spanish Fork across the Dry Creek trestle along the former D&RGW Tintic Branch on a stormy Sept. 22, 2016 morning.

A BNSF Railway Provo-Lincoln trackage rights manifest freight is framed by killer storm lighting along the former D&RGW at Rio during the Autumnal Equinox, 2016.

The quaking aspens were ablaze on Soldier Summit during the first day of autumn, 2016.

A Union Pacific Grand Junction, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah passenger special rolls through the Jordan Narrows west of Mesa siding on a sunny Sept. 14, 2016 morning.

Southern Pacific MK Rail SD40M-2s No. 8623 & 8630 and UP SD60M No. 6121 lead an 83 car MDVRO down the 2% at Gilluly on a sunny Feb. 19, 2000 afternoon. The 8623 was built Santa Fe SD45 No. 1835 in... (more)