Right on Time
The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 pulls into Provo, Utah at 7:55 a.m, right on the advertised, the morning of July 31, 1981. By the early 1980s, a few changes to the RGZ had taken place. The factory pilot was replaced with a steel plate (similar in style to an E-unit) after an altercation with a dump truck destroyed the original. The Silver Banquet dining car was undergoing a rebuild, with a substitute UP diner in its place, nicknamed the “Golden Banquet”. The arrangement of the Budd dome and coach cars were repositioned in an unusual, nontraditional order. These changes took some getting used to.
Right on Time
The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 pulls into Provo, Utah at 7:55 a.m, right on the advertised, the morning of July 31, 1981. By the early 1980s, a few changes to the RGZ had taken place. The factory pilot was replaced with a steel plate (similar in style to an E-unit) after an altercation with a dump truck destroyed the original. The Silver Banquet dining car was undergoing a rebuild, with a substitute UP diner in its place, nicknamed the “Golden Banquet”. The arrangement of the Budd dome and coach cars were repositioned in an unusual, nontraditional order. These changes took some getting used to.