A worker on Utah Railway's RUT211 local lines a switch on the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe spur at Ironton. The extended height TCMX hopper is loaded with coking coal, utilized in pipe production... (more)

Rio Grande train No. 283 makes a switch move at Provo Yard on Oct. 25, 1987. The 5511 is an EMD SD50, built for the D&RGW in Sept. 1984.

With a brand new GE ES44C4 in the lead, BNSF Railway's Provo - Denver trackage rights manifest departs Ironton with 51 cars for The Mile High City. Note the double triple searchlight signals, hold... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo switcher sets out a loaded flat car on the Anderson Lumber spur on 6th South at 1st West in Provo. This industrial trackage is all gone today.

Union Pacific pool power leads Rio Grande coal train #735, approaching the UP wye connection at Ironton. The 84 car train of aluminum IPPX coal hoppers were loaded at at Skyline mine and will be s... (more)

Rio Grande's Helper Local ducks under the Ironton signal bridge while departing Provo Yard on August 29, 1987.

The Rio Grande delivers a military train to the Union Pacific at Provo Yard on May 24, 1987. It would arrive at Yermo, California on Memorial Day.

With pool power from the Union Pacific, Rio Grande coal train #734 departs Provo for Skyline mine. The winter snowpack on 10,685 ft. Mount Loafer is melting quickly.

A clean Rio Grande tunnel motor leads train #151 just west of Provo on May 13, 1987.

A pair of EMD tunnel motors lead Rio Grande train #151, a general freight run as needed between Grand Junction's East Yard and South Salt Lake's Roper Yard. The 5380 and 5384 are passing an iron t... (more)

A new Rio Grande bi-level auto rack awaits departure from UP's Provo Yard on a westbound military train. Built in October 1986, the W&K/Thrall fully enclosed rack rides on a Bethlehem 89 ft. flush... (more)

Rio Grande coal train #735 rambles slowly around the UP wye in Provo. The train was loaded at Skyline earlier in the day and would be delivered overnight by the Union Pacific to Intermountain Powe... (more)

A quartet of Utah Railway SD40s work a Union Pacific coal empty, backing into Utah Railway's yard in Provo. This UP real estate has been sold and redeveloped into Utah Transit Authority's FrontRun... (more)

Blowing smoke coupled with flying sparks and chunks of iron indicate the passage of the Loram Rail Grinder is imminent. 'RG 8' creeps through Provo along Rio Grande's eastward main track at less t... (more)

A Rio Grande 'Coal Liner' gondola has found new work hauling scrap for a recycling company. Five of these were built new by Thrall for the D&RGW in May 1969 to haul coal between Carbondale, Colora... (more)