With the stunning Book Cliffs as a backdrop, the crew of UP's LJP45 'dirt train' have begun their day. The first assignment is to retrieve a flat car of containers parked in the lower yard at Help... (more)

Union Pacific's Salt Lake City, UT to Denver, CO manifest rambles east toward a crew change at Helper, Utah. The 92 car train has a three unit mid train helper cut in that shoved the heavy MRONY f... (more)

Another pair of helpers farewell their train, this time 5398 and 5348 have just uncoupled from the rear of a westbound freight at Soldier Summit in August 1985. Another pair of Tunnel Motors conti... (more)

BNSF 7427 leads the daily Provo to Denver trackage rights train down the east slope of Utah's Soldier Summit. The train is approaching the west switch at Kyune where the rails enter the Price Rive... (more)

Cautiously making its way downgrade through the Price River Canyon, 298 and 234 heads the eastbound California Zephyr towards the next stop at Helper on August 1985.

A westbound crawls through the Price River Canyon on the grade to Soldier Summit.

Freshly repainted Rio Grande GP40 3085 leads a westbound through the Price River Canyon on the grade to Soldier Summit.

The distinctive profile of Utah Railway 5003 appears between stands of pinion and cedar in the high Utah desert country just south of Wildcat.

Veteran 5300 sits biding its time at Helper in March 1982.

The second visit to Utah didn't produce such good weather as the first trip - in rather overcast conditions, eastbound #18 snakes through the curves at Kyune, on the way down from Soldier Summit t... (more)

For my 1000th image accepted on Railpictures.net, I have uploaded a photo of a place I have held dear since I was a young kid. On a bright spring morning in 2006, I was on hand to catch the Rio Gr... (more)

The three unit helper set returns to the yard after lifting a westbound coal train over Soldier Summit. In the distance is the Utah Railway's small yard.

The eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr passes high above some weird silver contraptions at Detour on the way up to Soldier Summit, in October 1981.

DRGW 5371, the last unpatched DRGW unit on the UP roster is eastbound near Colton, Utah. 5371 and the trailing SD40-2 were sent west over Soldier Summit to retrieve the 3 trailing GE units which h... (more)

Utah Railway SD50S #6060 suffered a mechanical failure on May 5, 2009 while working a mid-train helper set on Soldier Summit. While under load, the 6060's prime mover shot pistons right through th... (more)