3117 and 3098 approach Woodside, UT, with a short local freight as clouds tip over the Book Cliffs in the background.

Rio Grande's priority train 187 tops Soldier Summit on a warm July 24, 1987 evening.

Rio Grande train #187 climbs through Price Canyon at Castle Gate on July 24, 1987.

Brilliant sun and shadow greet Rio Grande train #187, descending the 2% through Gilluly on July 24, 1987. The train has already dropped 1010 feet in elevation since toping Soldier Summit some ten ... (more)

Rio Grande's hotshot train #187 glides downgrade along the Spanish Fork River approaching Castilla. Today's consist has plenty of power on the head end with an interesting variety of cars includin... (more)

A partly cloudy evening in Utah County finds Rio Grande's Railblazer train #102 heading east up the Mapleton Bench near Springville. Check out the variety of old school piggyback trailers includin... (more)

With a five pack of EMD geeps for power, a hot Rio Grande manifest heads west on the approach to 7440 ft. Soldier Summit. Note the single main track, something the Rio Grande wisely corrected in 1... (more)

Finding somewhere not in shadow around Thistle at this time of the morning was a problem on this day in August 1985 - gliding downgrade towards Provo, quad Geeps, 3117, 3129, 3083 and 3101 hustle ... (more)

Rio Grande GP40-2 3117 and 6 sisters squeal through the S-curve at Kyune as they climb the grade to Soldier Summit. Scanned from an original Kodachrome.

On a moody sort of day, with cloud rolling over the Book Cliffs, 3117 and 3098 amble westbound through Woodside, between Green River and Helper, with a potash train off the Moab branch.

Skirting the Book Cliffs near Vista, a Potash Local returns from the Cane Creek Branch near Moab, heading towards Helper, behind 3117 and 3098 in March 1982.

It was the first week of September, 1996, and time was running out for the Southern Pacific as D&RGW #3117 leads two SP units out of Davenport, CA on the return trip to Watsonville over the Davenp... (more)

A nice roster shot of one of the few remaining unpatched DRGW untis.

A clean unpatched DRGW engine works along 9th St on the Riverside Lead

Surviving two mergers, DRGW 3117 still wears Rio Grange colors in 2005.