Photo ID: 112075 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific We are now a little over 31 miles south of the desert mainline (the Green River Subdivision) at Brendel. Another couple of miles and the Potash Local will reach its destination to switch out some cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112074 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The people gathered in this shot, just outside a massive cut made in the red rocks to accommodate the rails, are not here for the train. The tracks cross the Corona Arch trailhead, with the arch being the attraction these folks are after. However, even a non-railfan sometimes enjoys stopping to watch a once-weekly train roll by on the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112073 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 26 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local reaches the south end of Bootlegger Canyon, and wraps around the edge of the red rocks to rejoin the Colorado River for the remainder of the journey to Potash. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112072 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 27 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Cane Creek Subdivision runs near both Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. Bootlegger Canyon, seen here, not only hosts the rails, but also Corona Arch (top left of the picture). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112071 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local emerges from the 7,000-foot long tunnel on the Cane Creek Sub, entering into Bootlegger Canyon. This tunnel shaves off roughly eight miles that would be necessary to run around the rock formations that the road follows. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112070 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 22 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Cane Creek Subdivision was built by Rio Grande in 1963, specifically to access the Potash plant near Moab. A weekly local, which runs out of Grand Junction on Fridays, brings empty covered hoppers to the plant and picks up loads. Here, an SD70M, a GP60, and two GP40Ns have 36 empties in tow along UT-191. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112069 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Right around MP 5 on the Cane Creek Subdivision, UP's Potash Local is taking 36 cars down the 38-mile branch to the Potash plant near Moab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112068 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG533 (East Brendel) Grand County, UT 26 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific As the Potash Local passes by the signals at East Brendel, we take note of a billboard along I-70, advertising the popular outdoor tourist destination of Moab, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112067 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson to Brendel Grand County, UT 23 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific For several years, UP has been operating a train on the Cane Creek Sub Monday-Thursday to clean up some radioactive waste. Atlas Minerals operated a uranium mill near Moab between 1956 and 1984. The mill produced 16 million tons of radioactive tailings. The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project was created to prevent potential contamination of the nearby Colorado River. UP hauls roughly roughly 10,000 tons of tailings per week to a new disposal sight near Crescent Junction, where the buried tailings will not risk contaminating the Colorado River or any other ground water. In this shot, the Potash Local passes by the tailings train near Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112066 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Hill Grand County, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local makes easy work of the 1% grade as it climbs through the S-Curve at the top of Thompson Hill. This is my personal favorite spot for shooting westbounds out in the Utah Desert! The clouds are even cooperating a giving a little sunlight on what is forecast to be an overcast day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112065 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific While UP's Potash Local waits for a signal out of the siding at Sagers, we take note of a new signal mast that will eventually replace the westbound mainline signal that still stands to the left. For many decades, railroads would try to always place block signals on the righthand side of trains moving toward them. However, that practice seems to have given way to placing signals where ever it is most convenient! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112064 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific After meeting the eastbound California Zephyr, the westbound Potash Local is waiting on a signal to depart the siding at Sagers. The local has four units today, and is hauling 36 empty covered hoppers to the Potash plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112063 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound California Zephyr knocks down a clear (green) signal at the west switch of Sagers. Note the new signal past on the opposite side of the Zephyr. The mast has been standing there for over two years now, but UP has not yet gotten around to adding signal heads or hooking the signal up. For now, the old Rio Grande signal continue to take charge of the control point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112062 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel to Floy Grand County, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Along eastbound I-70, there is a very interesting Rest Area that looks over I-70 and the tracks. It makes for a great spot to get shots of eastbounds from an elevated perspective without the need for a drone. Here, the eastbound Zephyr is seen from that Rest Area. If you want to look for it, the Rest Area does not have an exit number, but it one exit west of exit 182. It is only accessible from eastbound I-70. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112061 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel to Floy Grand County, UT 22 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr passes through some of the dirt mounds that makes the Utah desert so interesting and, in my opinion, extremely beautiful. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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