Western Railroad Discussion > UP 8830E at W. (Soldier) Summit, Utah 1/28/15

This must be the local eastbound...DS told him to pick up cars in Helper, Utah...I drove over US 6 Wed. to see my old stomping grounds (D&RGW Mainline) from the late 1970s and 80s...What a sad change...I only saw 2 trains, a westbound welded rail train near Rio, that, due to heavy truck and auto traffic, I chose not to get turned around to chase it...(My mistake, as I only saw this other train pictured)...Another item of interest, is, on both the UP Overland route East of Ogden, and here at Summit at least, UP is putting in new signals...Steve



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/15 09:29 by the_expediter.

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4 cars. That's a profitable run!

Heading east through W. Summit...

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Coming thru Kyune, Utah...SHM

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If the PTC mandate from Congress hadn't been approved, I wonder if all these new signals would still be installed? Seems the older ones are working fine.

Nice catch. The traffic is not so bad on that line. I usually catch a few trains whenever I visit. Soldier Summit sees about 9-12 trains per day on average. Luckily, traffic has been increasing with some oil traffic loading out at Wildcat & Savage.

I should have titled this post "3 Elephants, 3 tanks and some scrap!"...OP

This train was the MROHP-28 (Manifest-Roper Yard-Helper)