Gathering beneath the Book Cliffs
On a pleasant April 3, 2000, afternoon, a fleet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors gathers beneath the Book Cliffs looming over Helper Yard in Utah. Still being used for helper service on trains up Soldier Summit in addition to the dirt train to East Carbon, twelve SD40T-2s call Helper home this day. Present are 5342, 5347, 5349, 5353, 5360, 5365, 5373, 5392, 5400, 5401, 5406 and 5410, and not a yellow locomotive is seen almost four years after the Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific.
Gathering beneath the Book Cliffs
On a pleasant April 3, 2000, afternoon, a fleet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors gathers beneath the Book Cliffs looming over Helper Yard in Utah. Still being used for helper service on trains up Soldier Summit in addition to the dirt train to East Carbon, twelve SD40T-2s call Helper home this day. Present are 5342, 5347, 5349, 5353, 5360, 5365, 5373, 5392, 5400, 5401, 5406 and 5410, and not a yellow locomotive is seen almost four years after the Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific.