Utah Railway RSD-4 No. 303 has a newly rebuilt Alco 244 V-12 prime mover installed at Martin Yard on July 25, 1977. Unfortunately, the 244 engine tarnished Alco's reputation as it had reliability ... (more)

The classic lines of an EMD F45 pose just outside Utah Railway's Martin Locomotive Shop on July 2, 1986. The 6606 was built new as the Great Northern Railway 433 in June 1969 and retired from serv... (more)

Rio Grande's lumber drag train 126 departs Helper Yard for Grand Junction the evening of June 25, 1988.

Castlegate is a large cliff-like structure of Cretaceous age sandstone that nearly blocks the lower end of Price River Canyon in Utah. The Union Pacific’s Provo sub follows the Price River downstr... (more)

An empty tank car train of the Utah Railways is entering the yard of Martin near Helper, pulling are 5 sixaxle locomotives. On the left two others are waiting for switching the cars from the rear.... (more)

Union Pacific manifest entering Kyune on the Soldier pass, with ES44AC (=UP AC45CCTE) # 5341, SD40-2 # 1616, SD60M # 6106 and SD40-2 # 1623. In the rear of the train were ES44AC # 8008 and SD70AH ... (more)

And they're off!

Southern Pacific's KCBAT departs Helper for Price Canyon and Soldier Summit on Sept. 10, 1996, the last day of operations prior to the merger with Union Pacific the following day.

Southern Pacific's Arco, Colorado to Moapa, Nevada coal train changes crews at D-Street crossing in Helper on Aug. 17, 1996.

After crossing the grades of Soldier Summit, Union Pacific’s LJP44 local from Salt Lake City approaches Helper Yard on December 1, 2004. This train hauled household waste, contaminated dirt, etc.,... (more)

The MRONY heads east into a spring snow squall. Just minutes earlier the sun had been brightly shining and by the time we reach Sagers it would shining again.

A quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors including my favorite, 5355, because of a cab ride I received on the Craig Branch, have a coal train in tow near the site of Mill Fork on Rio Grande's Soldier... (more)

A battered SD45R has just led a manifest freight over Soldier Summit and into Helper, Utah. Trailing the Kodachrome-painted SP diesel is a unit from the recently merged Rio Grande and another SP u... (more)

Southern Pacific and Rio Grande stablemates idle away the afternoon at Helper Yard on Oct. 10, 1995.

A gritty group of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors waits for a call to duty at Helper, Utah, on the afternoon of February 7, 2000. With Union Pacific now the owner of the “Main Line Thru the Rockies,” the... (more)