UTAH 5004 exits Spanish Fork Canyon in early morning light, just east of Castilla, and west of the old town of Thistle, which was destroyed in the mud slide in 1983 and forced a reroute of the rai... (more)
DRG&W 3088,3081,3079,3113,3109 head a westbound with 92 cars at Thistle.
With slightly less vegetation that today, a 150 minute late eastbound Californian Zephyr takes the diversionary route to the Thistle tunnels on the climb up to Soldier Summit behind 322 and 320 in... (more)
The Denver-bound Rio Grande Zephyr climbs up through Narrows on the way up to Soldier Summit on a fine October morning in 1981.
The dead trees testament to the extent of "Lake Thistle" from a couple of years previously, a westbound freight snakes its way down Spanish Fork Canyon behind 5401 and 5355 as it heads on the new ... (more)
The eastbound California Zephyr, behind 298 and 234, makes its way up through Spanish Fork Canyon towards Thistle in August 1985, the alignment of the former highway visible to the left of the pic... (more)
Having been to Soldier Summit numerous times I had never photographed a train from this location. So after cathing this train at Gilluly it was decided this might be the time to make up for that s... (more)
Eastbound #18 Rio Grande Zephyr behind 5771 5762 5763 is about to run under the old highway US6 overbridge at Detour on the climb up to Soldier Summit in October 1981.
The early morning sun starts to rise over the mountains as it catches this short westbound coal train, behind 3139 3131, running downgrade through the realignment at Thistle in August 1985.
Framed by flowering shrubs, a Utah Railway coal train eases downgrade through Spanish Fork Canyon on UP's Provo Sub.
The true details of Mountain Railroading.
The MNYRO-11 has exited Thistle Tunnel and is dropping down toward Castilla on the former Rio Grande Mainline along the drainage of the Spanish Fork River. This train and her eastbound counterpar... (more)
Eastbound BNSF mixed freight climbs into the Wasatch east of Provo, exercising trackage rights on UP's old Rio Grande mainline.