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===Name=== Helper is situated at the mouth of Price Canyon, alongside the [[Price River]], on the eastern side of the [[Wasatch Plateau]] in Central Utah. Trains traveling westward from the [[Price, Utah|Price]] side to the [[Salt Lake City]] side of the plateau required additional "[[Bank engine|helper]]" engines in order to make the steep (2.4% [[Grade (slope)|grade]]) {{convert|15|mi|adj=on}} climb up Price Canyon to the town of [[Soldier Summit, Utah|Soldier Summit]]. The town was named after these helper engines,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Volumes 9β10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7M3AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA187|year=1918|page=187}}</ref> which the [[Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad]] stationed in the city.
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