The Rio Grande has the Wasatch Mountains to cross and the top is called Soldier Summit. The base of the grade where it starts is Helper, Utah. Hence the name where helpers are added to trains to m... (more)

A BNSF manifest is exercising trackage rights over the UP from Provo to Denver.

D&RGW SD40T-2 5375, engine terminal at Helper, Utah. April 20, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Eastbound empty coal train east of Helper on the former DRGW.

Union Pacific locomotives rest in the yard at Helper, Utah, on the morning of March 17, 2009. The trio of GE AC4400CW/AC4400CW-CTEs are a helper set used to assist UP trains over Soldier Summit.

A southbound UP local pops out of one of the twin tunnels at Kyune.

An eastbound BNSF oil train arrives at Helper.

A UP coal empty nears Helper as it follows the Price River.

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr passes Castle Gate as it nears its next station stop in Helper.

Newest addition to the Wildcat Loadout oil operations. Ex UP SD60 #2237.

A BNSF oil train nears Helper as it passes Castle Gate.

With towering gate rocks surrounding in the background, a pair of UP AC4400CWs holds up an empty hopper train.

HELPER UT March 9 1980 — Rio Grande SD9 5309 ais shjown in switching service. This shot taken from the Rio Grande Zephyr. My photo.

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

Three Alco RSD15 Gators and an RSD4 lead a Empty coal train into the Utah Railways yard on a Beautiful late afternoon in September 1976