Greetings,This website will deal mainly with train activity south and west of Salt lake
City,Utah. I will be featuring photos from the early 1990's to the present,Hopefully I will be
able to obtain some photos prior to that time from the 1970's and 1980's. This website will
feature photos of Rio Grande,Southern Pacific,Union Pacific and Utah Railway around Provo.
Quinn's Provo Train Terminal
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| Southern Pacific SD40-T2#8365 basks in sunlight in Union Pacific's Provo Yard in the Summer of 1999,Testament to the
merger phases that SP has been through in the last thirteen years up to 1999. The Southern Pacific''Speed Lettering'',Was
Rio Grande Inspired.
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| In The Early 1990's,It was still possible to find Rio Grande GP30's roaming on the former Rio
Grande Mainline between Salt Lake City and Provo.In December 1992,Southern Pacific's Provo
Local approaches Provo's 820 North Grade Crossing with tonnage out of Geneva Steel.Once
GP30's 3017,3023,3015 drop off it's load of rolled steel at Southern Pacific's former Rio Grande
Provo Yard,It will take it's outbound west train back to Roper Yard in Salt Lake City. These
famed GP30's were built in 1962,Rio Grande was amongst several railroads at that time to
purchase these stylish locomotives.
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As a condition of the Southern Pacific/Union Pacific Merger,Burlington Northern Santa Fe was
granted trackage rights between Denver and Stockton,California.On April 25,1998,BN 8031/
Santa Fe 5024/ LRCX 9524/ BN 8038 lead a westbound unit coil steel train through Provo.This
train is running from Birmingham,Alabama to Pittsburg,California on former Rio Grande Rails.In
just one hour,This train symboled U-BIRTPIT-1 will complete the rest of it's journey to
Pittsburg,CA from Salt Lake City on former Western Pacific Rails.
Quinn Copyright 2003
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| In April 1997,Utah Railway became BNSF's local switching agent between Provo and Ogden
switching local industries.New yards were built at Provo,Midvale and Ogden. In order to fill it's
new duties,Utah Railway purchased old and worn-out Santa Fe and Burlington Northern GP20's
and GP35's.
On December 27,1997,Utah Railway's RUT 309 Job rolls westbound out of Provo with local
BNSF Tonnage bound for Utah's Yard at Midvale.In charge of this train are three former Mid-
South GP10's 1074/1045/1073 along with a former BN GP35# 2163.A green signal at milepost
701.3 awaits them for the trip to Midvale.
What A Treat It Is To See Vintage Geeps from the 1950's and 60's leading a Utah Railway
Local in the final years of the twentieth century.
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| Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision between Provo and Lynndyl,Utah is not that well known in railfan
circles.Most railfans will go to the Rio Grande Mainline up Spanish Fork Canyon and Soldier Summit
to photograph trains. Most of the UP Provo Subdivision's train traffic is made up of unit coal trains
that come off the Utah Railway and former Rio Grande at Provo. Most of this coal traffic shows up
between Provo and Lynndyl. Due to it's secondary mainline status,Occasional detours of hotshot
and stack train traffic can be seen on this widely ignored track. The last few years on the Provo Sub
has seen(since 1992) a local that works industries between Provo and Lynndyl (LJL 57) along with
daily manifests M-ROMF,M-WCRO,M-WCOG. On October 30,1993,UP 9517/ UP 6160/UP ex-
MoPac 9006 leads the CSKLA through the rural countryside at Mona,Utah. Rural farmland and
beautiful mountain scenery make up most of the geography of the UP Provo Sub between Provo and
Lynndyl.
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