Regarding the "widget" - The Standard Coal Company operated in Spring Canyon northwest of Helper. The company town there was named Standardville, an experiment in standardized and sanitary constructio

How purple are we talking? I visited the Bell Hill fluorite mines in Utah two years ago, which you can see in this picture : https://www.flickr.com/photos/drgw223/42474153820/ And one of the undergrou

I know Parker and saw his scan of the slide. That is a silver painted car, I'm not sure how any of you are seeing red. It's a single door, not double. The D&RGW painted a few dozen (if I remember corr

The fluorite docks are long abandoned, since Geneva shut down a few decades ago. The elevator though is still active as far as I can tell.

I saw this image and thought "huh, that looks familiar." Then I realized that I literally drove past that elevator yesterday afternoon. You can see the location on google maps here: https://www.google

Photo was taken on the Inland Railway, which was owned by the Inland Crystal Salt Company. It was a tiny little line on the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake that interchanged with Union Pacific an

Far more interesting is the car behind it - SLR19040. This is the first and only time I have ever seen that reporting mark - the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad used LASL as its normal identifier. SL

The Northern Utah Division NMRA did a custom run of this paint scheme through Accurail a few years ago. Every once in a while they show up on ebay. One of these photos I've never seen before so I wond