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)

Utah Railway muscle claws at the 2.4% plank of Soldier Summit near Lynn. Scenery, Grade and Curvature make this an awesome show. 6 more big motors shoulder into the load 2/3rds back.... Price Riv... (more)

Southern Pacific UP Patched AC4400 6417 (former SP371) is seen climbing up the 2.4% grade of Solider Summit in Price River Canyon at little more than walking speed on a loaded coal train with 3 mi... (more)

The last Rio Grande locomotive operating on the Union Pacific in original colors and numbers is seen through the open doors of the small enginehouse at Helper, Utah, on November 7, 2007. Very late... (more)

A couple of tunnel motors are being used to put together the CV Local to run to Price and then the CV Spur to do some local work. These two units were part of the dirt train earlier and are now pu... (more)

Twilight for No. 5371
The final Rio Grande locomotive (road number and paint) on the Union Pacific slumbers under the yard lights at Helper, Utah, in the twilight of November 5, 2007.

A quartet of Alco RSD-15s and a single RSD-12 lead a train of coal empties into Martin Yard on Feb. 19, 1977.