Coal Train in Price Canyon

[ricoisrael880]

GOOD VIDEO SUUUUPEEERRRRRRRR, BUENO!!

[alexvanloon111081]

this is a beautiful, great and cool catch my friend!!! really!!

[adriaan880121958]

I thought a locomotive is a locomotive. What makes one a helper and what is a DPU?

[4Mr2ThC0]

@adriaan880121958

Helpers, or slaves... are usually placed mid-train... a DPU, or Dedicated Pusher Unit...are usually stationed at certain points along the route on which the train may need a push up a hill, these DPU's just couple to the end of the train and give it a push...

[kodachrome9319]

Excellent, Charles. I'll be doing the Moab Local/Soldier Summit in April, and should have a fancy $3500 camera by then.. : - ) Hope all is well out there and if you want me to send you my work schedule I can; if you are eying coming out here!

[trainfart]

Great one, stunning video :)

Thank you!

[trainfart]

Great one, thank you!

[Nathanrailfan]

I wish UP would give one of those SP Ac4400cw's to Portola Museum.

[Nathanrailfan]

That damn ICC is the fault of a lot of SP's problems.

[spacecalander]

Great film, thanks for the post!

[reverndmaynard]

I love the mid train distributed power units

[rcz115]

What a treat!! 3 SP Engines!! Nice catch!

[Gooberwalla]

The videography was spot on. Very well done. BTW, what does "patched" mean?

[cchan006]

@Gooberwalla: On the ex-Southern Pacific units (the dark grey ones), the color around the engine number on each of the cabs is yellow. That's how Union Pacific renumbered these units, and the nickname for this method is "patched".

[Gooberwalla]

@cchan006 Thanks for that explanation. Now I shall know what "patch" means. Those SP AC-4400 units bring back sweet memories from the 90s when I'd see SP unit trains, replete with helpers, hauling coal on the Rio Grande route in CO, between Minturn and Pueblo. Love that SP gray livery.

[aocruiser]

Very cool catch!!!

[bertdekoning]

the engines in the middle and the end,are they remote controlled..

greetz \bert....

[justkiddin08]

Great video!!

[hoorider13]

Wow! 3 ex-SP AC4400CWs!!! You always catch the good stuff!

[hoorider13]

Wow! 3 ex-SP AC4400CWs!!! You always catch the good stuff!

[sgtredbluered]

Fantastic location! Great catch.  *****

[Cornelu]

Excellent video!

[Rocketboy1950]

Great location. How many trains a day would normally pass through here ?

[cchan006]

@Rocketboy1950: Less than Echo Canyon. Few BNSF's on trackage rights, MRONY/MNYRO which are Denver to SLC manifests, Utah Railway trains, this coal train, and Amtrak #5 and #6, the California Zephyr, but not all of them during daytime.

[Rocketboy1950]

@cchan006 Thanks, good to know. I just might get my lazy ass over to the US for some railfanning now that the Aussie dollar is on equal footing with yours.

[gameover340]

nice

[wrmrrm]

Awesome!!!

[yurysausage]

fantastic !

[Amtrakdavis22]

Nice lashup! Next summer I want to try and railfan Echo and Price Canyon.

[cchan006]

@Amtrakdavis22: Great locations, both. I'm going to try to return to the area, hopefully soon.

[mafarnz]

Holly cow, that's a lot of SP patch units on a single train! Nice shot, that's a great location.

[cchan006]

@mafarnz: I actually caught an unpatched SP 177 on the MRONY during this visit, 2nd in consist, and chased it between Helper and Price. But yeah, Price Canyon and Soldier Summit's are great locations for sure.

[iusetano]

Now that's power! Excellent video.

[stlgevo51]

That was an impressive coal train! Nice video. By the way, is that Castle Gate in the background?

[cchan006]

@stlgevo51: The abandoned town of Castle Gate is further east (where the train was coming from), but the rock formation you see is probably what inspired the name.

[AndreiTupolev]

Nice echoes.

[generationll]

Where was the coal headed?Undoubtably this was coming out of the PRB area.

[cchan006]

@generationll: There are some coal mines in Utah, and this one originated from Savage, UT heading to Searles, CA, so it's actually not a PRB coal train out of Wyoming.