Under gloomy skies, a trio of UP swing helper units idle away at Helper yard. The trio had just returned from shoving a heavy Salt Lake-Denver (MRONY) train east from Castilla to Soldier Summit.

Utah SD50S's 6064 and 6062 are at the point of a group of power being assembled for an afternoon train at the Martin Engine Facility. Empty coal hoppers wait to go back to the Wildcat mine in the... (more)

UP 8343 and two other AC units take coal empties east from Helper for loading. However, they are stopped at Spring Glen waiting for a track maintenance crew at Maxwell to clear. Canon Digital Re... (more)

A trio of UP AC4400-CTE's make up a helper set in the appropriately named town of Helper, Utah. Looking north at the famous Book Cliffs. Canon Digital Rebel XT with 50mm lens.

Two of the Utah Railway's former Australian SD50's and an MK5000 rest next to the Martin locomotive shop on a Monday afternoon.

At North Main and D Streets, a loaded UP coal train begins the 24 mile climb up Price River Canyon to Soldier Summit. The coal load has a 3 unit manned helper cut in 66 cars behind the head end po... (more)

It seems that anything is possible on today's modern railroads. Here we see a joint Utah Railway-BNSF Railway coal train traveling east on the Union Pacific Provo Subdivision with a Utah Railway c... (more)

Putting 21,000 horses into motion in the middle of a train might take some TLC, nope, giver hell is what this crew did as they got this 105 car coal train up to 25 mph in the blink of an eye. Thes... (more)

To think the UP took over the SP 5 years before this photo was taken, it is hard to believe not a single yellow units can be found. This photo could date back to the days of the Rio Grande. 7 DRGW... (more)

Utah Railway's only G&W painted MK50-3 #5005 emerges from the confines of the Ashton tunnel into Spring Canyon with 103 empties for the coal loadout at Wildcat.

Sporting a shiny new EMD SD70ACe, BNSF Railway's Provo-Denver manifest meets a Union Pacific Little Giant crane in the former D&RGW Helper yard.

A Union Pacific Operation Lifesaver Special heads through Price River Canyon along a D&RGW icon in it's own right, Castle Gate. The Rio Grande utilized this rugged rock monument for promotional ph... (more)

Generations of Locomotive Technology Represented at Helper Yard on June 7th: GE's Dash 8 Series (C40-8), GE's GEVO "Evolution" Series (ES44AC), and EMD's venerable "Dash Two" (SD40-2). The 9209 ar... (more)

A set of three GE's roll to a stop after the grueling assignment of shoving a 65 car MNYRO up the Price River Canyon grade to Kyune, Utah. The sight of a relatively new GE motor is uncommon at thi... (more)