By July of 2000, it just didn't get any better than this. Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5354, 5347, 5401, 5345, and 5349 help the MDVRO train climb the 2.53% grade through Castle Gate, cut in 45 cars de... (more)

A three way meet is in the works at Castle Gate in Price Canyon on July 7, 2000. UP 7078 leads Utah Railway's CWCLX-07 (Willow Creek to Los Angeles, export coal), SP 8249 leads UP's ZDVRO-07 (Denv... (more)

A Utah Railway coal train with Union Pacific power loads at the Willow Creek mine at Castle Gate on July 7, 2000. Cyprus Plateau Mining began operations at Willow Creek in 1998. On August 1, 2000,... (more)

A pair of DPUs push a manifest freight up the west slope of Soldier Summit.

All new GE locomotives and aluminum coal hoppers load at the new Willow Creek coal mine at Castle Gate in Price Canyon on Oct. 11, 1999.

A pair of back to back EMD SD60Ms pull a 62 car MDVRO manifest freight across Royal Road at Castle Gate on Oct. 22, 1999. In less than eight months, SD60Ms working on Soldier Summit would be super... (more)

Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake City UPS train zigs and zags through Price Canyon on August 19, 1998.

Six Rio Grande tunnel motors help a Co-Op to Intermountain Power coal train through Price Canyon on Aug. 29, 1998.

UP 5688 pushing up a coal train at Castle Gate. In the background, one of the region's many coal loading facilities can be seen.

After pushing Union Pacific MNYPV to Kyune on the Price River grade up Soldier Summit, a helper set drifts downgrade through Castle Gate, Utah, on October 24, 2007. The last Rio Grande locomotive ... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande manifest, led by an SD40T-2/GP35/GP40-2/GP35 power combo, winds through Castle Gate, Utah.

Westbound Kansas City to Roseville manifest starting climb up to Soldier Summit on exDRGW main

The yard tracks at Castle Gate, Utah once served the Castle Gate Coal Company. The town and mine that once bustled with activity here are now gone. The silent rail yard deep in the Price River Can... (more)

Southern Pacific's Utah Statehood Centennial train winds its way through Price Canyon on January 3, 1996.

Returning from the Utah Railway yard at Martin, a westbound oil train heads back toward Provo as evening shadows begin to take over the right of way near Castle Gate.