Rio Grande in Color Volume 2: Utah by James Sandrin

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“Rio Grande in Color Volume 2: Utah” by James Sandrin, 128 pages, Morning Sun Books, 1998

This book introduces Rio Grande Utah Lines westward starting with Grand Junction. Era concerned dates from transition era and ends up with the second generation diesels era.

I think color photos of Thistle, Marysvale Branch and Eureka Branch are rare and valuable. I owe my “Rio Grande Remnants in Utah” columns to this book.

Reading it along with the book Rio Grande Secret Places Volume 2 may well help understanding of the Rio Grande's Utah Lines.

Here are the contents;
006: Grand Junction
015: Grand Junction Switchers
017: The line to Montrose
019: The Somerset Branch
022: Fruita
023: Ruby Canyon
025: Sagers
025: Thompson
028: Brendel
030: Solitude
030: Green River
032: Desert
034: Grassy
035: mounds
037: The Sunnyside Branch
039: Price
042: Helper
046: Helper’s Special Duty Units
049: Price River Canyon
065: Soldier Summit
070: Gillury
076: Narrows
079: Thistle
081: Marysvale Branch
087: Spanish Fork Canyon
094: Jordan River Valley
096: Springville
096: Eureka Branch
100: Provo
104: Geneva
106: Welby
107: Murray
107: Roper
111: Salt Lake City Switchers
114: Salt Lake City


本書は、カラー図版を多く集めたMorning Sun Booksお得意の写真集の第２巻である。

Rio Grandeのユタ州における路線を東から順に追う構成で、時代的にはTransition EraからSecond Generation Diesels Era、すなわち1950年代から1970年代がメイン。支線のカラー図版は貴重だと思う。

ユタ州における路線をより詳しく説明する「Rio Grande Secret Places Volume 2」を併せて読むと理解が深まるだろう。