One of the conditions of the UP-SP merger was the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway receiving trackage rights along the former D&RGW and WP between Denver, CO and Stockton, CA. Witness the daily MDVSTJ departing Utah Railway's Provo Yard at University Avenue on November 23, 1997. BNSF's acquisition of hundreds of new orange C44-9Ws had yet to dilute the throngs of classic Burlington Northern locomotives and consists like this were still common.
