On a hot July afternoon in '77, Union Pacific's Provo Switcher cruises south down the Big 4 Distributing spur, dodging numerous late model cars in a local wrecking yard. Check out the four man swi... (more)

Minutes before sunset, a coal load from the Valley Camp mine (on Rio Grande's Pleasant Valley Branch) heads west through Ironton, Utah.

Here's one of my favorite Kodachrome slides taken when I chased trains via my Azuki 10-speed bike I named 'White Lightning'. Union Pacific's Provo Switcher departs Provo yard for Geneva Works with... (more)

Looking good in spite of her age, BNSF 'warbonnet' C44-9W prepares to take a turn on BNSF's Provo-Denver trackage rights manifest. The 764 was built new in 1997 when the BNSF had yet to establish ... (more)

A Union Pacific GP38-2 awaits a call to duty at the joint UP-Utah Railway servicing facility at Provo. The UP 804 was built new by EMD as the Missouri Pacific 2304 in February 1981.

The Union Pacific Railroad of the 1970s was very different from today's carrier, in particular with regard to motive power. UP's daily Provo to Salt Lake City local departs Provo Yard with a nice ... (more)

With a clean warbonnet GE in the lead, a BNSF Railway Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest has reached its destination in the joint Utah Railway-BNSF interchange yard.

While waiting for a passenger special to arrive from Las Vegas, we caught this fine quad of EMD SD45's on the Kaiser Unit West, waiting to depart Provo for Southern California. The unmistakable pr... (more)

On March 4, 1977, the D&RGW derailed half a dozen coal loads at the University Avenue overpass in Provo, Utah. Steam powered derrick 029 was recruited from Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to help cle... (more)

One of the things that made the Union Pacific interesting in the 1960s and 70s was the diversity of locomotive types. At one time, UP management encouraged experimentation in new locomotive techno... (more)

A pair of high hood, first generation EMDs meet nose to nose at Rio Grande's passenger station at Provo, Utah. The 5306 is an SD9, built July 1957 and the 5911 is a GP9, built in May 1955.

All is quiet on a snowless Christmas Eve at Provo Yard in 1976. One of Union Pacific's TR5 "cow and calf" switchers takes the afternoon off at the engine servicing facility. Provo terminal was hom... (more)

On a rainy afternoon in Happy Valley, an EMD TR5 'Cow and Calf' pairing work the west end of Provo Yard while the Delta Local awaits departure for Lynndyl and points west. Back in the 1960s and 70... (more)

UP SD90MAC 8076 is seen leading a short eastbound manifest from Salt Lake City (Roper Yard) to Denver (North Yard) at Spannish Fork Canyon on the climb to Soldier Summit - 25/09/2011

Rio Grande's 'Salina Local' slows to make a pickup in the D&RGW yard at Provo. The ultra short train began its mid day journey at Roper in South Salt Lake. After a sizable pickup at Provo, the loc... (more)