The Utah Railway mainline to Martin (and points east such as the Wildcat Mine) leave UP's Provo Subdivision at Utah Railway Junction. Amtrak continue east on Main Two past the Junction and toward the depot at Helper.
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The scenery and the speed of Amtrak will be changing soon! Amtrak is quickly approaching Helper, the transition point between the mountain scenery of Soldier Summit (and 30-40 MPH speeds) and the Utah desert (with 60-80 MPH speeds)!
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Heading east on Main Two, Amtrak 6 passes some wonderful fall colors just east of the Kyune tunnels on its way down off of Soldier Summit.
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Amtrak 6 is running about four hours late, which allows this shot to be possible! At this time of year, if Amtrak was running on time, it would be pitch black when Amtrak came through Summit.
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Soaked among the colors of fall (and a bit of gray for the fill!), Amtrak 6 makes its way swiftly up the grade from Gilluly headed straight for Soldier Summit.
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Utah Railway 5006 leads a westbound coal load toward the area along US-6 known as the Red Narrows.
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A westbound BNSF manifest is running the "wrong way" on Main Two on its way west down the west side of Soldier Summit. The train passed a Utah Railway coal load at the top of Soldier Summit. The coal load was on Main One.
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Having now conquered the worst of the grade on the east slope of Soldier Summit, this coal train will soon cross underneath US-6 (to the geographic west side) and arrive at Colton.
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Three rather dirty MK50-3's lead a Utah Railway coal load west at the base of the famous Castle Gate.
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A Utah Railway coal load works it way up the grade on Main One on Soldier Summit. Note that Union Pacific has applied new ballast to Main Two.
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This (rare) unit auto rack empty is proceeding west on a clear signal at West Helper. Three AC400CW's were added in Helper (to the front of the train) to assist on the 2.5% grade.
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Chances are that DRGW 5371 is about six weeks away from a Triennial inspection at the time of this photo. Unfortunately, triennial inspections cannot be accomplished in Helper or Roper. Therefore, it is likely that the unit will be patched in mid-November 2006.
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The morning sun highlights the exhaust coming out of the three units on this hard working MNYRO.
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The nose of a Utah Railway MK50-3 peaks out from behind trees sporting great fall colors. The train is running along the base of Castle Gate on Soldier Summit.
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About two dozen new IPPX hoppers clearly stand out against the "classic" two-tone IPPX hoppers in the rest of this loaded Utah Railway coal train. I found it interesting that Main One in CWR here, while Main Two (on the right side) is jointed rail.
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