In the mid 1970s, the D&RGW rebuilt the moribund Pleasant Valley Branch to serve a new coal mine named Valley Camp. A quad of EMD 40 series motors lead a train of Rio Grande 100 ton cross hoppers ... (more)

While spending a delightful morning fishing with my dad, grandfather, and brother, a coal train appeared along Scofield Reservoir, bound for the Valley Camp mine. I scrambled from the shore up to ... (more)

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