It was once an important loading point and construction camp on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW).

[2] When a station was built here to house the helper engines used to push freight trains over Soldier Summit,[3] it quickly grew into a town with a population of 500, called Clear Creek.

[4] (The current community of Clear Creek, Utah, population 4, is located several miles south of the former site of Tucker.)

In 2009, the Utah Department of Transportation closed and buried the Tucker rest area to build a safer alignment, with a banked curve and reduced grade.

[7] The replacement rest area was designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot to honor the town, including a replica roundhouse and non-functional steam locomotive built by Original Creations of Carbonville, Utah.

[9] The rest area was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in the state of Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.