Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles northwest of the city of Price. The population was 2,112 at the 2020 census.
North along Main Street, September 2023
Helper's post office is one of three sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places
"Big John" Muffler Man in Helper, December 2010
A bank engine, banking engine, helper engine or pusher engine is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a gradient. Helpers/bankers a
Helper, Utah
…of the Wasatch Plateau in Central Utah. Trains traveling westward from the Price side to the Salt Lake City side of the plateau required additional "helper" engines in order to make the steep (2.4% grade) 15-mile (24 km) climb up Price Canyon to the town of Soldier Summit. The town was named after these…
SZ Taurus pushing a freight train on the grade between Koper and Hrpelje-Kozina in Slovenia. An SZ class 363 is leading the train. July 2007.
Kalyan Electric Loco Shed WAG-7, to be used as a banker locomotive for climbing the gradient on Bhor Ghat, near Pune. Spotted at Karjat Railway Station
1915 photo of a quadruple header (four front locomotives) train with a rear helper, climbing the Denver & Rio Grande Western's grade up Soldier Summit
1949 photo of an LMS Jubilee Class climbing the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire with MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker 'Big Bertha' providing banking at the rear of the train. In the present day, almost all trains can climb the incline unassisted, though heavier freight trains still require bankers.