A Utah Railway Savage coal load creeps through Price River Canyon at a blistering 23 mph. A five unit swing helper is cut in 2/3 back in the 85 car train of 100 ton cross hoppers.

On a brilliant winter afternoon, a Utah Railway Savage to IPP coal train crosses the Price River bridge westbound at Castle Gate. Until 1974, the terrain through here was occupied by the city of C... (more)

A Union Pacific coal load creeps by the aftermath of a derailment in Utah's Price River Canyon. A westbound coal load hit a broken rail on track 1, derailing cars which in turn collided with an ea... (more)

The one and only orange MK50-3 leads Utah Railway's Intermountain Power to Wildcat coal empty along a snowy Price River at West Kyune, Utah. From this point the descending grade 'increases' from 1... (more)

The UP MNYRO-29 (North Yard, Denver to Roper Yard, Salt Lake City) squeals through the reverse curves at the west end of the Kyune Gooseneck. Second out in the power consist is an originally numbe... (more)

A pair of EMD SD9043MACs haul 105 cars of Savage coal up Price River Canyon at Castle Gate monument. This iconic sandstone 'gate' was utilized extensively by the D&RGW in early advertising campaig... (more)

A Union Pacific Bill Wimmer Engineering Special rolls west by an icon of the former D&RGW...Castle Gate, in Utah's Price River Canyon.

Union Pacific's Operation Lifesaver Special rolls east along the Utah Power & Light 'Carbon Plant' at Castle Gate, Utah. This train was bound for Grand Junction, Colorado for OLS training exercise... (more)

A pair of big EMD SD9043MAC units lead a Salt Lake to Denver manifest east along one of the former icons of the D&RGW, Castle Gate in Price River Canyon.

Union Pacific's "Helper Helper" races east toward Helper yard after giving the MRONY-21 (in the distance) a shove up Soldier Summit. These helpers were cut off at Colton Xover, and by the time the... (more)

Viewed from the shoulder of the old highway, a Utah Railway Wildcat coal train lopes along at 15 mph with 90 loads of Utah bituminous for the Intermountain Power generating station near Lynndyl, U... (more)

Soon after sunrise, the crew of Amtrak's California Zephyr perform a running air test at Soldier Summit prior to a 25 mile descent (between 1.0-2.3%) eastward to Helper, Utah. This is my 600th pho... (more)

With a partial moon in the western sky, Amtrak's California Zephyr is five miles from it's regularly scheduled stop at Helper. A loaded coal hopper at Royal Road has been spotted here for several ... (more)

BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest parallels the Price River through the Nolan Tunnels about 10 miles west of Helper, Utah. Note the giant boulders nearby track 1.

Four big GE units propel BNSF's Denver-Stockton 'Q' train up the 2.3% grade between Lynn and Kyune. Three on the point and one at the rear are separated by only 29 cars, moving right along at trac... (more)