Railfanning the West, Part 1
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Chase UP, D&RGW and the Utah Railway in 1977.
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Chase UP, D&RGW and the Utah Railway in 1977.
To keep going, you gotta crest Rio Grande’s Soldier Summit.
The Union Pacific’s former Denver & Rio Grande Western mainline in Utah, between Helper and Provo, is a great place to watch trains.
Superb winter sunshine on stunning Soldier Summit in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.
The Utah Railway owns the only six MK50-3’s built, and these together with five ex-Australian SD50S’s drag 15,000 ton coal trains up the 2.4% grade to Soldier Summit.
The Utah Railway has the only 6 MK5000’s built, and they ply their trade dragging coal trains over Soldier Summit.
Both the Rio Grande and the Utah Railway had a long history of hauling massive coal trains over this summit.
At 7,440 feet, the crest of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah is the fifth highest railroad pass on a US transcontinental mainline. Assaulting the steep grades of Soldier Summit takes brute force horsepower.
In 1991, Pentrex traveled across the country to capture the highlights of the year’s railroading events to grab two hours of nonstop adventure featuring 8 different railroad subjects.
For 130 years trains battled the pass over the Wasatch Mountains at Soldier Summit.
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