The rather famous rock known as Castle Gate stands tall in the background as a BNSF manifest wraps through Price River Canyon on Main 2, headed east. Soon, the train will be running across the extremely hot Utah Desert toward Colorado.
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Bathed in beautiful morning light, a BNSF manifest (with a Warbonnet in the consist!) follows the Price River down Soldier Summit. The train is just 10 miles away from Helper, UT.
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The center siding of Kyune has a couple of fantastic S-Curves that can been see quite well from the shoulder of US-6 high above. Here, a BNSF manifest heads east on Main 2 through one such curve.
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About seven miles east of the summit of Soldier Summit, an eastbound BNSF manifest (which left Provo earlier in the day) descends down the relatively gentle 0.64% grade.
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On the way to the Heritage Unit Reunion in Salt Lake City, we stopped at Spanish Fork to capture this westbound Utah Railroad coal load led by UR 5005. The train has made it over the long climb on Soldier Summit and will now complete the journey toward Provo.
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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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