On October 9, 1995, a European railfan group chartered a photo freight on the Heber Valley Railroad. Union Pacific 2-8-2 #618 performs a runby while strutting her stuff around the Little Deer Cree... (more)

UP 618 steams upgrade in Provo Canyon with the first steam run of the summer 1996 season.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 hauls a freight train past Decker’s Bay siding on Utah’s Heber Valley Railroad on February 8, 2006. Built in 1906 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Oregon Shot Li... (more)

Utah's Wasatch Mountain Railway, aka the 'Heber Creeper' traditionally ran doubleheaders on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. On Labor Day '76, Union Pacific 2-8-0 #618 teams up with Pacific Lu... (more)

Union Pacific 618 silhouetted against a bright sunrise, leads a photo freight on February 8, 2006, on Utah's Heber Valley Railroad.

Union Pacific No. 618 hauls a freight toward the Edwards Lane grade crossing, where a 1949 Chevy pickup waits for its passing. This photo freight is part of a winter photo shoot on Utah's Heber Va... (more)

Last rays of sun in the Heber Valley: On a cool February 8, 2006, Heber Valley Railroad’s Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 pulls a freight toward Heber at Charleston, Utah.

Storming toward Heber
Union Pacific No. 618 hauls a freight toward the Edwards Lane grade crossing, where a 1949 Chevy pickup waits for its passing. This photo freight was part of a win... (more)

Heber Valley sunrise
Union Pacific 618 leads a photo freight at sunrise on February 6, 2007, on Utah's Heber Valley Railroad

The year is 1970 and you need to add coal to a steam locomotive. How do you do it? Improvise. Former Union Pacific Baldwin 2-8-0 618 has been successfully hauled from Provo to the mouth of Provo C... (more)

On a delightful spring morning in southern Idaho, Union Pacific's Cache Valley Local takes a turn around the wye in the town of Preston. The UP 618 is an EMD GP38-2, built the Missouri Pacific 211... (more)

UP 618 on the Snake Creek Trestle in the Heber Valley with a freshly painted Western Maryland box car. UP 618 will be making its last trips over the Memorial Day Weekend before it has to be rebuil... (more)

If we traveled back in time to the late 1950's, the UP 618 would be a Baldwin 2-8-0 steam engine, burning coal and assigned to work in the Provo, Utah area. Fast forward to 2010, and UP 618 is a f... (more)

With cylinder cocks open, the UP 618 starts the Provo Canyon Limited away from the stop and run-around at Vivian Park.