Unlike the Moffat in Colorado, Soldier Summit has very few tunnels. There are, in fact, only three pairs of tunnels. The first one west of Helper are the Nolan Tunnels. The westbound Mountaineer is on Main 1, approaching the east entrance to the 403-foot Nolan Tunnel.
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RMRX 8020 has turned the corner and is approaching the east portal of the Nolan Tunnels, around 10 miles west of Helper.
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The lower part of part of Soldier Summit pretty closely follows US-6 along Price River. The Rocky Mountaineer is running west on Main 1 as it passes by the very well known rockface knows as Castle Gate.
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At least ten tanker trucks, each filled with oil, are transferring their content over to the oil tanks. From their, the oil will be loaded into tank cars to create unit oil trains to head east. A track working hyrailer switches around some tank cars in the foreground.
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A string of six BNSF units sit on one of the yard tracks at the transload facility at Wash. Three of the units will run around to the east end of a loaded oil train for the trip back east toward Denver and beyond.
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A little track crawling hyrailer moves tank cars around at the Price River Terminal Crude Oil Transload Facility near Wellington. This is where oil trains that run on the former Rio Grande are loaded, the oil transferred from truck to tank car.
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A single DPU brings up the tail end of a long, loaded ballast train. The train just received a fresh crew at Helper and is now making its way to Grand Junction, most likely to help shore up the line around Glenwood Canyon, which has been hit hard by rock and mud slides in the runoff this spring.
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The dirt train is not making a run all the way to Sunnyside on this particular day. Instead, the Rio Grande tunnel motors will drop off the cars for the dirt train on the siding at Wash for temporary storage. After leaving the cars behind, the tunnel motors will run back to Helper light.
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The sun is setting as this UP coal empty starts its push across the Utah desert.
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Four Rio Grande SD40T-2s lead the so-called "Dirt Train" eastbound just east of the siding of Wash near Wellington, UT. The Dirt Train actually carries trash from the Salt Lake City area to a landfill on the Sunnyside Subdivision in the Utah desert.
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The California Zephyr has left the mountains behind and is now entering the Utah desert. The train will run through Green River and eventually Grand Junction on its way to Denver.
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