Rio Grande train #664 stops to set out eight covered hoppers of turkey feed at the Spanish Fork Sugar Factory. Soon the DRGW 3019 and 3013 and the six remaining cars will resume their journey to t... (more)

With an abbreviated Labor Day '87 consist, Rio Grande's Railblazer train #102 rolls east through summertime sunflowers near the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. The D&RGW protected this 14 hour Salt ... (more)

Rio Grande coal train #734 heads east through Sutro Cut with 84 IPPX coal empties bound for loading at Skyline.

Rio Grande's 772 local sets out a dozen loads of turkey feed for transloading to trucks in Spanish Fork, Utah. The old Utah-Idaho Sugar Factory, built in 1916, still stands along the joint D&RGW-S... (more)

After lining the switch from the Tintic Branch to the siding, Rio Grande Conductor Neal Thorpe boards train #664 for the short zig and zag journey to the Spanish Fork Sugar Factory with turkey fee... (more)

Rio Grande train #146 with a mix of piggybacks and forest products, ramps it up on the approach to Spanish Fork Canyon.

A pair of horses don't appear to be phased one bit by the passage of Rio Grande coal train #734, approaching Sutro Cut on March 19, 1988. The snowy flanks of 11,749 ft. Mt. Timpanogos decorate the... (more)

Rio Grande Utah Division Engineer Jim Ozment offers the photographer a gesture of strength and might as he prepares his high rail vehicle for inspection of the track through Spanish Fork Canyon. J... (more)

SP's hot RODVF roars east through Sutro cut with a train of piggyback trailers for Denver.

While storm clouds gather over the Wasatch Mountains, Rio Grande train #676 rambles along the Tintic Branch at Spanish Fork. The two gondolas willl be set out on the Spanish Fork siding while the ... (more)

Rio Grande train #752 rambles slowly along the Tintic Branch with 10 cars of Moroni grain for the rail to truck transload site at Spanish Fork Sugar Factory. The lanes of Interstate 15 border this... (more)

On a clear September morning in 1984, Rio Grande GP9s 5931 and 5904 haul grain along the Tintic Branch at Spanish Fork. By October 1984, D&RGW's first generation EMD power would be removed from se... (more)

A Union Pacific Wattis Plateau, UT to Moapa, NV coal load shakes the foundation of UP's derelict Herriman era depot at Spanish Fork, Utah.

I was fortunate to catch one of General Electric's C30-S7R leasers heading up a Union Pacific coal train west on the Provo Sub on June 28, 1991. The 3007's service life began as Milwaukee Road U30... (more)

Rio Grande coal train #772 rolls east along the Mapleton Bench on the outskirts of Spanish Fork. A long cut of GS gondolas gives this 772 a certain 'flashback' coal train appeal, although these ca... (more)