Utah Railway Alco RSD15 Alligator 403 rests in the yard on a nice afternoon. It will go out on a Helper set later that that day

It is a gloomy, soggy day in the Wasatch Mountains. An ex Southern Pacific AC4400 lifts another load of Carbon County coal up the Price River Canyon. All 8 big AC motors can be seen in this view ... (more)

An ex Santa Fe Alligator waits for the afternoon run up the hill

RSD4 302 rest after coming in from a mine run

DRGW work train near Helper, Utah.

UP 6832 & 6013 lead a coal empty down the eastern grade from Soldier Summit to Helper (UT).

This westbound manifest climbs up the grade thru the Gooseneck Curves. The train had stalled out on the climb for Soldier Summit, so a 3 unit manned helper was added to the head-end to get the t... (more)

UP 8996 (SD70AH), 7885 (ES44AC), 5920 (GE AC44CW-CTE) and 9007 (SD70AH) wait in Helper (UT) for her next duties.

This image looks like yet another shot of a D&RGW SD40T-2 in the Helper, Utah yard. But, for this dyed in the wool Rio Grande fan it was a good bye of sorts. RP poster James Belmont and I had hear... (more)

Utah Ry. 6060 is spotting some empty tank cars on the Wildcat siding for crude oil loading. They will push the empties into the east end of the siding as seen here, and then run down to the west e... (more)

Eastbound unit oil train rolling down Soldier Pass with three SD70M (UP 4675, UP 4263 and UP 4521)

Heritage quad hopper
Sitting in Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Helper yard is D&RGW 100-ton quad hopper No. 12272 on the afternoon of February 3, 2003. This was the only car painted ... (more)

When the days are short and that 7:00 a.m. call time gets you up in complete darkness, its only natural to want to either rub the sleep from your eyes or drink hot coffee from that favorite mug as... (more)

On June 22, 2004, Union Pacific’s LJP45 local out of Helper, Utah, was returning to town entering the yard when the lead truck of Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5349 derailed on the switch to Yard Track 2... (more)

An AC4400CW idles in the Helper, Utah yard.