A pair of live steam engines receive some TLC between runs at Heber City yard on Labor Day, 1976. The 35 is an oil burning Baldwin 2-8-2 built for the Pacific Lumber Company in 1924 while the 618 ... (more)
Wasatch Mountain Railway's 70-ton, 3 truck Shay No. 4 makes easy work of ascending the grade from the Provo River crossing up to Casperville Road in Charleston. No 4 was built by Lima in July 1920... (more)
On the afternoon of the United States Bicentennial, Heber Creeper Fireman Hal Yahzee and Engineer Doug Brown stand proudly by Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 at Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. July... (more)
Wasatch Mountain Railway's afternoon train to Bridal Veil Falls returns home to the Rio Grande depot in Heber City. Former Pacific Lumber Company 2-8-2 No. 35 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive W... (more)
Mainstay power for the Wasatch Mountain Railway meets in the former Rio Grande Heber City yard. No. 35, a Pacific Lumber Company 2-8-2 was built by Baldwin in 1924 while No. 618, an Oregon Short L... (more)
My dad was a weekend engineer/fireman for the Wasatch Mountain Railway (aka the 'Heber Creeper'). He is pictured in the cab of former Pacific Lumber Company 2-8-2 No. 35, built by Baldwin Locomoti... (more)
My father, a Saturday fireman for the Heber Creeper, helps navigate former Pacific Lumber Company 2-8-2 No. 35 (Baldwin, 1924) through the old D&RGW Heber City yard on Aug. 2, 1975.
On a hot July afternoon in 1989, Union Pacific 2-8-0 #618 hauls the Heber Creeper's afternoon train from Vivian Park along Deer Creek Reservoir at the dam. The granite peaks of 10,908 ft. Mt. Casc... (more)
Here's a location that you can't photograph trains anymore...at one time, the Heber Creeper line through Provo Canyon extended two additional miles from Vivian Park down to Bridal Veil Falls. Majo... (more)