The summer scenery on Soldier Summit is truly fantastic! Case-in-point is this eastbound Utah Railway coal empty charging up the western slope of Soldier Summit at the crossover at Rio.
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MK50-3 #5005 leads an IPPX coal empty eastbound on Main 2 through the crossover at Rio. The train is headed for the Wildcat Loadout on Utah Railways own line southwest of Helper.
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With the sun setting to the west, this eastbound coal empty is approaching the location of the Thistle mudslide that closed the mainline for almost three months in 1983.
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A strand of light engines, led by SP 274, is just about to enter the 3000-foot-long tunnel at Thistle on main two.
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