An ACE and GEVO battle for the last couple hundred yards of 2.4% grade. Mid Train are 3 more AC manned swing helpers. Two DPUs are on the rear....

Two of the newest model of locomotives on the Union Pacific charge up Solider Summit. The wayside detector near Lynn said 97 degrees and 13mph. Conditions like this test any machine, man can buil... (more)

Utah Railway's Martin Helper awaits its next call to serve on the mainline west to Soldier Summit.

One of the last places to see sun in the Price River Canyon is here between Lynn and Nolan. The high canyon walls can make photography challenging, there is only about 3 1/2 hours of good light t... (more)

This westbound coal load is passing under Billies Mountain. In 1982-83, record moisture soaked the mountains causing the Great Thistle Slide. The Slide buried the helper town of Thistle, the rail... (more)

The desert mountains and canyon walls dwarf this Utah coal load as it heads up the 2.4% plank towards Solider Summit. The Utah Railway currently hauls coal from the Wild-Cat and Savage load-outs.

Utah 5002 screams thru the Price River Canyon at no more than 15 MPH. The 2.4% grade was once the Mainline thru the Rockies......Rio Grande. For over 100years it was also the Utah Coal Route... U... (more)

A colorful Utah Rwy consist has loaded this Intermountain Power train at Savage, UT. The train now has 6 helper locomotives cut in and is waging war with 2.4% ruling westward grade towards Solide... (more)

A stable of Rio Grande tunnel motors await work out of Helper, Utah on March 14, 1999. The UP assigned as many as 18 SD40T-2s to work Helper terminal well into the late 1990s. The 5411, 5405, 5385... (more)

A trio of ex-CSX SD40s idle at the Utah Railway's Helper terminal.

A sunny New Year's Day 1988 finds Rio Grande's Helper Yard awash in Grande Gold and Black EMDs. SD40T-2 No. 5406 awaits its next assignment spotted on the service track near the engine shop. EMD b... (more)

Rio Grande's compact diesel repair shop stands proudly at Helper Yard on New Year's Day, 1988. When the Southern Pacific came to town, management painted over the large flying 'Rio Grande' logo, e... (more)

A Utah Railway SD50S is parked just outside the shop building at Martin Yard on March 28, 2013. The 6061 was built for Hamersley Iron Ore in Australia by EMD licensee Clyde Engineering in August 1... (more)

After swapping road power at the Martin diesel shop, Utah Railway's IPP to Wildcat coal empty resumes its journey east through the yard at Helper. The train features 105 Rapid Discharge coal hoppe... (more)

After swapping road power at the Martin diesel shop, Utah Railway's IPP to Wildcat coal empty resumes its journey east at the mouth of Tunnel One, or the 'Ashton Tunnel' in Helper, Utah. The train... (more)