Rio Grande's 'Salina Local' is stopped at the Provo Yard office, prior to retrieving a cut of cars for industries along the Marysvale Branch south of Thistle. GP40-2 #3121 was built new for the Ri... (more)
Rio Grande's Provo Switcher returns from Geneva Steel with a long cut of 18,000 series Keigley rock train (dolomite) hoppers. At left, a cut of GS gondolas used for sugar beet loading on the Tint... (more)
Spotted on the roundhouse lead at Provo, Rio Grande SD45 5338 (and two UP SD40s) await a call to serve on the next 'Kaiser Unit East' coal train to Sunnyside, Utah.
Late in 1976, Provo Trainmaster Eddie Anderson requested EMD SD7/SD9s to handle heavy tonnage trains between Geneva Steel and Provo. The newly arrived 5310 is photographed working the west end of ... (more)
On a warm November evening in '76, a pair of EMD GP9s idle away the night at Rio Grande's modest engine and caboose maintenance facility in Provo, Utah. The 5923 would soon sold to Utah Power & Li... (more)