The last Rio Grande diesel without a UP number awaits an assignment.
The last "unpatched" Rio Grande SD40T-2 on the UP system idles at the Helper engine terminal. Only one other former D&RGW unit remains "unpatched" on the UP...a GP40-2.
UP 3288 moves over to the facility after being dropped off by the UROHP dirt train.
Union Pacific Coal Drag
UP 6024 heads up the motive power on this north bound coal drag. At helper they will pick up 3 big GE's to help get them over the Solider Summit, just a head.
A Utah Railway SD50S and MK50-3 No. 5005, painted in the livery of Genessee & Wyoming (Utah's parent company), get some cool shade on a blistering July afternoon in Helper, along the former D&RGW ... (more)
UP 5694 leads a coal drag through the UP Helper yard, after lunch of course.
I found a pair of unpatched D&RGW tunnels in the yard at Helper this weekend past . . . the were near the sand tower.
An MK5000C locomotive parked next to the Utah Railway shop in Helper, Utah
Utah Railway helpers wait for a loaded coal train to push over Soldier Summit.
Eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr at station stop in Helper, Utah.
