Spring Runoff
A pair of EMD F40PH locomotives pull Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 approaching Rio, Utah, at the east end of Rio Grande's Thistle Line Change on May 16, 1987.
Looming large are the verdant slopes of 10,695 Loafer Mountain, with the drainage of Soldier Creek flowing westward toward Thistle Junction where it will join Thistle Creek to form the Spanish Fork River, ultimately joining Utah Lake.
This photo angle is impossible to capture today as 38 years of trees and brush have formed between the creek and the D&RGW right of way, completed in 1983.
Image scanned from an 8x10" Kodak digital print.
Spring Runoff
A pair of EMD F40PH locomotives pull Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 approaching Rio, Utah, at the east end of Rio Grande's Thistle Line Change on May 16, 1987.
Looming large are the verdant slopes of 10,695 Loafer Mountain, with the drainage of Soldier Creek flowing westward toward Thistle Junction where it will join Thistle Creek to form the Spanish Fork River, ultimately joining Utah Lake.
This photo angle is impossible to capture today as 38 years of trees and brush have formed between the creek and the D&RGW right of way, completed in 1983.
Image scanned from an 8x10" Kodak digital print.