Photo ID: 112393 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A closeup shot of one of the many refrigerated box cars that is currently being stored in the upper yard at Helper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112392 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Not much hangs out in the yard at Helper these days. One thing that does seem to be in storage here is a long string of refrigerated box cars. They are in the upper yard at Helper. You can see there is a small slope up to those yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112391 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Earlier in the day, it was determined that UP 8377 has some PTC issues. It was removed from the rest of the units used in the helper set, which are on the track to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112390 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP does not have too many Tier-4 locomotives on the roster. And of the ones they do have, even fewer are EMD's SD70ACe-T4. The units are mechanically complex and expensive to maintain. UP 3069 is an example of one such unit. Not the long hood that does not have the slants that of a normal SD70ACe. Additionally, there are three radiator fans instead of two. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112389 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 66 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It is a quiet evening in the yard at Helper. There are no trains set to come through here in the little bit of daylight that remains. Two helper sets sit, waiting for their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112337 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper (MP 626.5) Helper, UT 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific The conductor for the mid-train helper set throws the yard switch in the helper yard back to Track one after four units came out of the yard onto Main 1 and have been cut in to a westbound coal load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112336 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper (MP 626.5) Helper, UT 58 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific Soldier Summit is one of the few places left in the United States that still uses manned helpers. Heavy westbound UP unit trains, such as coal and oil, have a mid-train swing helpers cut in from the Helper Yard onto Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112335 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper (MP 626.5) Helper, UT 57 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific The crew on this eastbound coal empty is onboard and just about ready to start rolling east. The train will load at the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch. Meanwhile, manned helpers are about to cut in to a westbound coal load on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112334 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper (MP 626.5) Helper, UT 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific Although coal has largely declined in recent years, it has not yet disappeared completely. I actually lucked out and caught a meet between a westbound load on Main 1 and an eastbound empty on Main 2. The load is waiting for manned helpers to be cut in, and the empty is waiting for a new crew to climb onboard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112317 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Utah Railway A closeup view of the south side of the Utah Railway locomotive shop in Martin. Unfortunately, the shop hasn't really been used in years as Utah Railway has essentially stopped running trains over Soldier Summit. It now focuses on the manifest market between Provo and Ogden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112316 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Utah Railway The engine facility at Martin was once busy every day with maintenance activity for the Utah Railway fleet. With the demise of coal, however, Utah Railway has all but abandoned everything here in Helper. The doors on the engine facility have been closed for years now, silence filling the area. The mainline is the track immediately to the left of the engine facility. I always thought it was interesting how the mainline passed right next to the building. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112315 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Utah Railway Isn't it funny how time changes all things? 25 years ago, this same shot would have been filled with coal hoppers. Hoppers either waiting to go to Wildcat for loading, or hoppers that had been loaded and were waiting to head west over Soldier Summit. Now, the yard at Martin is filled with tank cars. Cars that will go to Wildcat to be loaded with oil, or some that already have oil and are waiting to head west of Soldier Summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112314 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Utah Railway This office building, overlooking the Utah Railway yard at Martin, was once the headquarters for Utah Railway. However, it has since been abandoned and is has even been put on the market for sale at various points in recent years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112313 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots AE A closer look at this Arizona and Eastern GP8, sitting near the Martin engine facility on Utah Railway. The reporting marks, UTWX, indicate Wildcat Midstream Partners, a company that operates the Wildcat oil transloading facility on the Utah Railway. The old Arizona and Eastern must be used for that. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112312 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots AE Utah Railway is owned by Genesee and Wyoming. The G&W bought Utah Railway in August 2002. The G&W owns dozens of shortline railroads in the United States. In addition to Utah Railway, the Arizona and Eastern is another example of a railroad the G&W owns. An A&E GP8 sits, shut off, near the engine facilities here at the Martin Yard in Helper. I have no idea why it was here or what the plans for it are. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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