Derailment on the Heber Valley Railroad

On our trip to see the Great Race to Ogden in May 2019 we had a spare day after the celebrations at Promontory Summit and before the return of the Union Pacific Big Boy & #844 to Cheyenne. So we decided to ride the Heber Valley Railroad. When we arrived in Heber City we found out the train was not running that day.
Before we arrived, a locomotive and a heavyweight passenger car derailed just outside of the Heber City yard. Re-railing the 6-axle car proved to be quite difficult. It took more than 2,5 hours to get the passenger car back on track.
It was very nice to see the team-effort of the Heber Valley Railroad crew and fortunately nobody got hurt!

[@lancereagan3046]

I was in the cab with one other NRHS member, and the engineer. We picked the switch which put the back trucks on the ground first. We were asked to exit the locomotive while they tried to re-rail it. Since myself and the other individual were the only two out on the row, I got some good pictures. Rail & ties were damaged, along with some damage to the GP9.

[@fairwayrailproductions3239]

It's like they are rerailing a model train by Bachmann on that one piece and pushing it back and forth. lol.

[@Rail-Rody]

Yeah, slightly heavier, haha.

[@sd90mac8]

Boy, that was 😵 a difficult ordeal, I believe 6 axel cars are certianly more harder to rerail as well as 6 axel locomotives. Great boys, 💪😁👍

[@wicky201]

I was on that. Just after the last car cleared the platform, the first car went on the ground.

[@lancereagan3046]

Was Skip Waters with you, or was he farther up the consist?

[@wicky201]

@@lancereagan3046 Don't know who that is.

[@kenkemzura903]

I was there the day it happened. Some of the track was damaged as well.

[@lancereagan3046]

A steel brake shoe from the GP9 was knocked off, along with a trail of oil across the grade crossing.