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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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SP RS32 4003
Title:  SP RS32 4003
Description:  Espee Alco RS32 4003 sits off the Ogden turntable in July 1976. During this%period SP kept several RS32s and RSD12s in Ogden, typically using them for switcher or transfer duties.
Photo Date:  7/20/1976  Upload Date: 9/18/2009 10:10:01 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4003(RS32)
Views:  133158   Comments: 1
Working Bingham Canyon Mine
Title:  Working Bingham Canyon Mine
Description:  Kennecott electric 752 working a short train at the Bingham Mine. 752 is a 85 tonner, built by GE in 1937; it was retired in 1982.
Photo Date:  7/15/1971  Upload Date: 6/21/2011 9:19:39 PM
Location:  Bingham Canyon, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCCX 752(70Tonner)
Views:  683   Comments: 2
UP GP9 338
Title:  UP GP9 338
Description:  UP GP9 338 at Ogden; unit was retired in 3/81.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 8:56:04 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 338(GP9)
Views:  897   Comments: 1
UP GP20 483
Title:  UP GP20 483
Description:  UP GP20 483 drills the yard in Provo in June 1973. 22 years later I'd shoot this same unit as MNA 483 (see also).
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 8:56:35 PM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 483(GP20)
Views:  2163   Comments: 1
UP SD40-2 3192
Title:  UP SD40-2 3192
Description:  An early UP SD40-2, 3192 still wears the "Dependable Transportation" motto on the cab. This may have been the first SD40-2 I ever shot.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 3/26/2011 8:57:13 AM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3192(SD40-2)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
UP SD40-2 3192
Title:  UP SD40-2 3192
Description:  UP SD40-2 at SLC in June 1973.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 10:23:41 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3192(SD40-2)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
UP "Omaha GP20" GP9B 339B
Title:  UP "Omaha GP20" GP9B 339B
Description:  Steam generator-equipped UP "Omaha GP20" GP9B 339B, rebuilt with a turbocharger at SLC in 1973. Retired 10/79.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 1:25:40 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 339B(GP9B)
Views:  1413   Comments: 1
Heber Creeper 35
Title:  Heber Creeper 35
Description:  Heber Creeper 35, a Baldwin Mikado (BLW 67538, 1924) was used by the tourist line between 1971 and 1993, when it was sold to the Nevada State Railroad Museum. It's the former Pacific Lumber 35.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 5/11/2008 10:39:43 AM
Location:  Heber City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  576   Comments: 1
DRGW 132
Title:  DRGW 132
Description:  Rio Grand SW1200 132 sits in the streets of Salt Lake City in 1973
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 8/22/2008 9:06:48 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DRGW 132(SW1200)
Views:  1111   Comments: 2
Working Provo Yard
Title:  Working Provo Yard
Description:  Utah Railway 307 works Provo Yard in June 1973; its a former CNJ RSD4 acquired in 1971; it served in the Beehive State for about a decade before being retired.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 12/21/2008 6:30:51 PM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UTAH 307(RSD4)
Views:  1051   Comments: 0
UP Cow-Calf team
Title:  UP Cow-Calf team
Description:  UP TR5 cow-calf set 1875/1875B work the Provo yard in June 1973. 1875 was rebuilt into an "SW10" in 1981, the calf was retired in 1982.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 5/9/2009 8:34:53 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1875(TR5A)
Views:  1093   Comments: 0
Breathe Easy
Title:  Breathe Easy
Description:  UP GP9 261 runs slowly through the Salt Lake City shop area in June 1973. It's hood displays additional ventilation holes put in it by the UP from when it was one of the first two UP GP9s equipped with experimental AiResearch turbochargers in 1956. It was subsequently rebuilt to a normal, non-turbocharged configuration but the hood openings remained until retired in 1979.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 9/23/2009 10:41:23 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 261(GP9)
Views:  197850   Comments: 1
UP GP7 126
Title:  UP GP7 126
Description:  UP GP7 126 sits at the Salt Lake City shops in June 1973. It was retired in August 1981.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 9/23/2009 10:41:44 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 126(GP7)
Views:  2385   Comments: 1
Dependable Transportation: UP SD45 3625
Title:  Dependable Transportation: UP SD45 3625
Description:  UP SD45 3625 sits at Provo UT in Jun 1973.
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 9/26/2009 8:56:32 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3625(SD45)
Views:  2104   Comments: 3
Switching in the street
Title:  Switching in the street
Description:  UP NW2 1076 works industries on 3rd West St in Utah's capital in Jun 1973. The 25 year old veteren has six more years to go before retirement
Photo Date:  6/20/1973  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 8:04:03 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1076(NW2)
Views:  872   Comments: 1
UP GP7 125
Title:  UP GP7 125
Description:  Running in proper long-hood forward fashion (at least for a UP GP7); UP 125 leads five other Geeps on a southbound train through Clearfield UT in Jun 1976. It was retired by UP in 10/77 and sold to PNC; it would end up with Iowa Interstate and Kansas Southwestern.
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/23/2009 10:41:35 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 125(GP7)
Views:  4404   Comments: 2
UP SD40-2 3158
Title:  UP SD40-2 3158
Description:  UP 3158, an early SD40-2, sits with a train at Cleargield UT in 1976
Photo Date:  6/2/1976  Upload Date: 2/17/2011 11:04:15 AM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3158(SD40-2)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Rio Grande SD7 at Clearfield
Title:  Rio Grande SD7 at Clearfield
Description:  DRGW SD7 5301 works cars at the Clearfield Center in June 1976. The second of five of this model on the road.
Photo Date:  6/2/1976  Upload Date: 6/21/2011 9:19:22 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5301(SD7)
Views:  765   Comments: 1
UP SD40-2 8017
Title:  UP SD40-2 8017
Description:  UP SD40-2 8017 at Clearfield UT in 1976.
Photo Date:  6/2/1976  Upload Date: 11/8/2014 8:53:04 AM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8017(SD40-2)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
UP Centennial
Title:  UP Centennial
Description:  Few diesel locomotives were as impressive as UP's 6900-class DDA-40Xs. Two of them lead a freight south towards Salt Lake City in 1976, there are four SD40-2s behind them.
Photo Date:  6/2/1976  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:17:44 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Sick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6910(DDA40X)
Views:  1136   Comments: 1
UP GP30 718
Title:  UP GP30 718
Description:  UP GP30 718 switching the yard at Clearfield UT
Photo Date:  6/4/1976  Upload Date: 7/20/2010 8:31:47 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  545   Comments: 0
UP Action at Clearfield
Title:  UP Action at Clearfield
Description:  A pair of UP units move to pick up a string of cars at Clearfield UT in June 1976. SD24 448 is joined with GP30 837.
Photo Date:  6/4/1976  Upload Date: 12/27/2010 6:04:33 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 448(SD24) UP 837(GP30)
Views:  1469   Comments: 3
UP SW9 1864
Title:  UP SW9 1864
Description:  Union Pacific SW9 1864 works trackage near downtown Ogden UT in June 1976.
Photo Date:  6/21/1976  Upload Date: 6/21/2011 10:29:49 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1864(SW9)
Views:  848   Comments: 0
Working Clearfield
Title:  Working Clearfield
Description:  Rio Grande SD9 5313 works the former Navy supply depot at Clearfield UT in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/6/1976  Upload Date: 12/19/2009 8:42:54 AM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5313(SD9)
Views:  1387   Comments: 2
Omaha Geep in Storage
Title:  Omaha Geep in Storage
Description:  UP "Omaha" GP20 322 sits in storage at SLC in 1976. It would go to PNC and end up on CNW who would pull the turbo out and number it 4498.
Photo Date:  7/7/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2011 10:31:23 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 322(GP20)
Views:  1071   Comments: 1
UP GP9 268
Title:  UP GP9 268
Description:  Although UP GP9 268 wears fresh paint, it's in a storage line at Salt Lake City; it would go to PNC two months later and end up on the CNW.
Photo Date:  7/7/1976  Upload Date: 2/16/2011 10:31:44 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 268(GP9)
Views:  1039   Comments: 1
UP SD24B 443B
Title:  UP SD24B 443B
Description:  UP SD24B 443B stored at Salt Lake City; it was sold to PNC in November 1977
Photo Date:  7/7/1976  Upload Date: 3/26/2011 8:57:02 AM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 443B(SD24B)
Views:  965   Comments: 1
When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth
Title:  When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth
Description:  Yes, in terms of horsepower there are certainly bigger locomotives now, but UP's fleet of twin-diesel, 8-axle force of the '60s and '70s had a presence and impact that is couldn't be denied. UP DD35A 84 leads a train southbound out of Salt Lake City in July 1976; behind 84 is DDA-40X 6945, "Fast Forty" SD40-2 8032 and another Centennial, 6933.
Photo Date:  7/7/1976  Upload Date: 9/26/2009 8:56:11 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 84(DD35A)
Views:  3348   Comments: 3
UP GP9 251
Title:  UP GP9 251
Description:  UP GP9 251 sits in storage at Salt Lake City. It was sold to PNC only two months later and ended up on the CNW.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 11/13/2011 8:34:31 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 251(GP9)
Views:  810   Comments: 1
Utah Alligator
Title:  Utah Alligator
Description:  Utah RR RSD-15 403 at Provo in July 1976
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 3/26/2011 8:57:28 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UTAH 403(RSD15)
Views:  557   Comments: 1
DRGW SW1200 134
Title:  DRGW SW1200 134
Description:  DRGW 134 handles a short transfer run by the UP yard in SLC
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 11/2/2013 9:35:54 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 134(SW1200)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
Rio Grande Freight in Provo, 1976
Title:  Rio Grande Freight in Provo, 1976
Description:  Five units run a Rio Grande freight eastbound through Provo in July 1976. SD40T-2 5366 is followed by an SD45, GP40, GP30 and a pair of GP40-2s.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 11/2/2013 9:36:52 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5366(SD40T-2)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
Alligator
Title:  Alligator
Description:  Dead noon- high sun- who cares? It's an Alligator! UTAH RR 402 dozes at Provo in the summer of 1976.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 8:02:33 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UTAH 402(RSD15)
Views:  1964   Comments: 0
UP NW2
Title:  UP NW2
Description:  Union Pacific NW2 1019 handles work in the Utah capital in July 1976
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 2/2/2008 12:04:43 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1019(NW2)
Views:  1113   Comments: 1
UP fueight
Title:  UP fueight
Description:  Five units lead a UP freight north through Coearfield Utah in July 1976. SD40-2s 3137 and 3303 are followed by a pair of NW GP40s (1343, 1364) and a GP9B (200B).
Photo Date:  7/22/1976  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 2:38:54 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3137(SD40-2)
Views:  597   Comments: 0
UP Arsenal Local
Title:  UP Arsenal Local
Description:  UP SW9 1856 works a 3-car Arsenal Local on Hill AFB in July 1976. The road accessed the base via former Bamberger RR trackage from Ogden. The SW9 would be rebuilt into an "SW10" by UP in 1981
Photo Date:  7/24/1976  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:16:34 PM
Location:  Hill Air Force Base, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1856(SW9)
Views:  893   Comments: 0
UP "Omaha GP20" 329
Title:  UP "Omaha GP20" 329
Description:  UP Omaha Geep 329 at the Clearfield Center in July 1976. It survived to May 1985. One of 47 UP GP9s to get turbochargers and be uprated to 2000HP, becoming "Omaha GP20s".
Photo Date:  7/29/1976  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 6:37:04 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  622   Comments: 2
UP northbound local at speed
Title:  UP northbound local at speed
Description:  A UP local heads for the barn at Ogden with seven cars behind GP20 493 and "Omaha" GP9 329 on a July afternoon in 1976.
Photo Date:  7/29/1976  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:17:27 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 493(GP20)
Views:  807   Comments: 2
BN SD45 6495
Title:  BN SD45 6495
Description:  BN SD45 6495 sits in the UP Ogden yard in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/29/1976  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:18:12 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 6495(SD45)
Views:  385   Comments: 0
UP SD7 452
Title:  UP SD7 452
Description:  Clearfield UT, located between Salt Lake City and Ogden, was a former Navy depot that became a large warehouse facility called the Clearfield-Freeport Center. Switching services were provided by both UP and Rio Grande. UP SD7 452 was doing the duty in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/29/1976  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:18:53 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 452(SD7)
Views:  1860   Comments: 0
Only on the UP (2)
Title:  Only on the UP (2)
Description:  Six units- five of which are boosters- sit at the Clearfield-Freeport Center while they wait for their train to be finished. GP38-2 2042 leads "Omaha" GP9 311B, GP30B 719B, GP9B 157B, SD24B 420B and GP9B 165B.
Photo Date:  7/29/1976  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:19:39 PM
Location:  Clearfield, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2042(GP38-2)
Views:  562   Comments: 0
UP GEEPS
Title:  UP GEEPS
Description:  A trio of UP geeps sit in the yards at Ogden in August 1976. GP9 289, GP9B 150B, GP7 125. The B-unit was retired only a few weeks after thhs picture was taken. 125 lasted until October 1977 and 289 to Feb 1979.
Photo Date:  8/10/1976  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 2:38:43 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 289(GP9)
Views:  1528   Comments: 1
UP GP9B 323B
Title:  UP GP9B 323B
Description:  UP GP9B 323B working a train at Ogden in August 1976. It was retired only a month later$
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 8:16:24 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 323B(GP9B)
Views:  2557   Comments: 0
UP SD40X 3042
Title:  UP SD40X 3042
Description:  UP SD40X 3042 helps a train enter the yard in Ogden UT in August 1976. It was built as EMD 434C in 1965.
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 9/26/2009 8:57:14 AM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 3042(SD40X)
Views:  3106   Comments: 1
Rio Grande 3119
Title:  Rio Grande 3119
Description:  DRGW GP40-2 3119 at Roper Yard at the end of 1976.
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 6/21/2011 10:30:12 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3119(GP40-2)
Views:  495   Comments: 0
DRGW SD9 5311
Title:  DRGW SD9 5311
Description:  Rio Grande SD9 5311 sits in the road's Salt Lake yard.
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 8:03:00 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5311(SD9)
Views:  562   Comments: 0
DRGW 5942
Title:  DRGW 5942
Description:  An otherwise standard EMD GP9 other than it carries a rectangular, vice oval, builders plate
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 8/22/2008 9:02:29 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5942(GP9)
Views:  929   Comments: 0
DRGW 132
Title:  DRGW 132
Description:  Rio Grand SW1200 132 sits at Roper Yard in Dec 1976
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 8/22/2008 9:16:08 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 132(SW1200)
Views:  706   Comments: 0
Stored SD24s
Title:  Stored SD24s
Description:  UP SD24s sit in storage at SLC in December 1976. 404 would return to service and not be retired until 1986.
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 11:08:51 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 404(SD24)
Views:  1329   Comments: 2
Bicentennial GE
Title:  Bicentennial GE
Description:  Salt Lake Garfield & Western DS1, a GE 44 tonner, works the road's small yard in patriotic colors during 1976
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/19/2009 10:10:23 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SLGW DS1(44Tonner)
Views:  551   Comments: 0


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