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)
Utah Railway's Martin Locomotive Shop, operated by Boise Locomotive, is viewed from the west hills. Four of Utah Railway's SD50S units are visible with the entire "metro" area of Helper visible in... (more)
Where else but Utah Railway could one find a power combo such as this? MK50-3 #5003 joins a pair of Australian built SD50S units just outside Utah Railway's vintage shop building at Martin. The fo... (more)
Surrounded by the rugged cliffs that line Utah's Castle Valley, Utah Railway 6060 West departs the Wildcat loadout with 90 loads of coal for the Intermountain Power generating station near Lynndyl... (more)
On a gorgeous winter morning, the whistle of Amtrak's California Zephyr echos off the rugged Book Cliffs north of town. At right, a quad of UP EMD's (including D&RGW 5371) await service on the "Di... (more)
On its first trip to the west end of the former Rio Grande, that road's UP Heritage tribute unit paused to set out it's trailing motor in the Helper Yard. There the crew graciously arranged to pu... (more)
A trio of Rio Grande tunnel motors rests between assignments. Even though the merger with the Union Pacific was already three years old, there were no signs of the yellow giant at Helper on this ... (more)
BNSF 5316 leads a joint Utah Railway-BNSF coal train at the Wildcat loadout, southwest of Helper, Utah.
BNSF Railway power moves coal empties up Utah Railway's coal main to Wildcat, Utah. The village at left was created in the mid-1970's when the town of Castle Gate (in Price Canyon) was relocated h... (more)
Utah Railway 5005 is seen leading a empty coal train down the 2.4% grade of Solider Summit near Castle Gate - 30/08/2007
This rather forlorn looking Ex BN F-45, seems to be standing guard at the entrance of this rail facility, on this rather dark and gloomy day.
MPEX 5000 sits at Martin during its short stay on the Utah Railway.
