On May 24, 2002, in a vista just east of Wash, Utah, a quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors cross a bridge over the Price River and enter Wellington Canyon. The eastbound “dirt train” (contaminated dirt, trash from the Salt Lake City area, etc.) is powered by four SD40T-2 locomotives; D&RGW Nos. 5401, 5377, 5390 and 5371. In the distance, the yard at Wash once served a large coal washing plant, hence the name. Different grades of coal were washed and blended for use at U.S. Steel’s huge Geneva Plant near Provo.
