Rails Around Helper (Images of America) ROAD TRIP Areas included: Boise National Forest

Areas included: Boise National Forest

000 Topographic Map

The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle

and documentation about Utah's legends

and residential centers with Greek- and Gothic Revival-style structures built of stone and adobe

Rails Around Helper (Images of America) ROAD TRIP Areas included: Boise National ForestBy: SueAnn Martell and the Western Mining and Railroad Museum In 1880, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was hard pressed to find a suitable rail route from Grand Junction to Salt Lake City. With the coal deposits of eastern Utah luring them on, railroad officials chose a difficult route over Soldier Summit. The railroad established the town where "helper" engines were attached to the heavy trains, and Helper grew into a division point with branch