Railroad equipment from Salt Lake Valley carriers was on display for Transportation Day at the Rio Grande depot on May 17, 1986. Just out of view behind the Amtrak Superliner car is a UP C30-7.

FIRST FREIGHT. The first revenue freight move to cross this bridge since November 1989 rolls SB, operating under the old D&H symbol used for the D&H North Creek to Saratoga job.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp heads east down the Bingham Branch in West Jordan. Before the housing boom of the 1990s, this region of the Salt Lake Valley was largely undeveloped.

A N&W and Southern caboose bring up the rear of a westbound loaded coal train as it heads into Morristown, TN in October 1985.

Rio Grande conductor Neal Thorpe watches the world go by from his office on rails as the Midvale Tramp local descends the Bingham Branch at 90th South in West Jordan.

On a damp December 8, 1985, MKT MP15AC No. 57 switches at Glen Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, as cabooses from the home road and Soo Line stand by.

Snow is falling at the east end of Montana Rail Link’s Laurel Yard as MRL SD40-2XR No. 259 is teamed up with Remote Control Caboose No. 1103 to switch cars. These RCC cars contain all of the equ... (more)

Rio Grande wide vision caboose 01522 trails D&RGW train #673, approaching United States Steel's Geneva Works in Vineyard.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp heads north through fields of winter wheat, bound for the Kennecott Copper Corp. interchange yard in Magna. Today this vast open space is filled with commercial business... (more)

Found this classic crummy in the Baltimore & Ohio yard on an overcast day.

Yard scene on an overcast day.

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)

How Tomorrow Moves...Snow. Or so says this CSX flanger. Flangers like this one have been the primary means for snow fighting on this ex Conrail line between Boston and Selkirk since this series of... (more)

With a conductor waving from the steps of the caboose (actually, signaling the engineer), a westbound (southbound) Nevada Northern freight powered by two Alcos glints on Steptoe Creek fill near Ea... (more)