Photo ID: 113127 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Moab Tunnel Grand County, UT 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Way back in the steep vertical rock cliffs of Bootlegger Canyon, a UP passenger special emerges from Moab Tunnel, slowly heading south on the Cane Creek Subdivision toward Potash, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113126 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bartlett Wash Grand County, UT 93 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific About 15 miles south of Brendel (where the Cane Creek Subdivision starts, branching away from the mainline), UP 5898 and special cross over Bartlett Wash on the approach to Mill Canyon Road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113125 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Brendel Grand County, UT 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific This Union Pacific passenger special brought out a lot of railfans on this very unique trip south on the Cane Creek Subdivision. There were no fewer than two dozen railfans (and likely more) trackside at various points, getting shots of the unique move. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113124 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Brendel Grand County, UT 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific This 400mm shot of a UP passenger special on the Cane Creek Subdivision really sets up a nice background with the rocky Book Cliffs visible off in the distance near the Green River Subdivision mainline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113123 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Brendel Grand County, UT 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP 5898 and this passenger special have left the high speed mainline of the Green River Subdivision behind and the train is now heading south on the 25 MPH Cane Creek Subdivision. The subdivision runs almost 40 miles south toward Moab, UT, actually ending southwest of Moab at Potash, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113122 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson (MP 521.4 to MP 527.3) Grand County, UT 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific This S-Curve (known as Thompson Curve) offers up just about everything you could ask for here in the Utah desert. In addition to the wonderful geography of the curve itself, you get a bit of desert vegetation (what little there is), dirt mounds, and the hard rock fast of the Book Cliffs in the distance. This UP passenger special is carrying UP's upper management (and their families) on a trip from Rifle, CO to Potash, UT at the south end of the Cane Creek Subdivision. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113121 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson (MP 521.4 to MP 527.3) Grand County, UT 100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The appropriate names Thompson Curve near the apex of Thompson Hill is likely the most recognizable location of pictures in the Utah desert on the Green River Subdivision. Here, a UP passenger special is climbing through that famous S-Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113120 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson (MP 521.4 to MP 527.3) Grand County, UT 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific I am a huge fan of the Utah Desert as I love the barren mounds of dirt which create a very interesting landscape. Hopefully, the UP managers (including "C-Level" managers such as CEO Jim Vena) and their families are enjoying the views as they roll west, climbing Thompson Hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113119 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson (MP 521.4 to MP 527.3) Grand County, UT 99 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific This UP passenger special adds some bright yellow to a scene that is already dominated by yellow hues between Sagers and Thompson in the Utah desert. The two exceptions being UP 1616, specially painted in honor of the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln, and the splash of red, white, and blue from the American flag on one of the passenger cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113118 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cisco to Whitehouse (MP 505.2 to MP 509.8) Grand County, UT 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Just east of Whitehouse, where the track swing around and cross from the south side of I-70 to the north side, you can get a good view of the transition from highland, more mountainous terrain to the east, and the dirt mounds of the dry Utah desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113117 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cisco to Whitehouse (MP 505.2 to MP 509.8) Grand County, UT 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific After making its way through Ruby Canyon and the sidings of Agate and Cisco, this UP passenger special is starting the steeper part of the climb up the east slope of Thompson Hill. Here, it is rounding the curve, heading toward an I-70 underpass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112416 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River to Sphinx (MP 555.8 to MP 560.9) Grand County, UT 186 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The final shot on this particular journey to the Utah desert for me came just west of the west switch of Green River. DS-378 informed this eastbound coal empty that they would be holding at Green River for "at least an hour, and possibly longer". UP has a maintenance window ahead at Solitude. The empty will take the siding at Green River to wait not only for the maintenance window to clear up, but for BNSF's Denver to Provo as well. The train is coming to a stop west of the west switch for a few minutes to allow the conductor to run over to a gas station in Green River and pick up a few snacks for himself and the engineer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112415 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Curve (MP 526.5) Grand County, UT 272 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF A pair of ES44ACs bring up the tail end of the westbound Denver-Provo on the long wrap around Thompson Curve. This manifest will end up having to sit east of Solitude for a couple of hours while waiting for UP MOW to work through a maintenance window. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112414 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Curve (MP 526.5) Grand County, UT 285 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF While I think the Utah desert brings some incredible beauty with it, few spots are quite as delightful as the area known as Thompson Curve. This curve is near the top of Thompson Hill, and just east of the siding of Thompson. A westbound BNSF Denver-Provo is winding its way through the curves on a fantastic, partly cloudy Sunday morning. MRL 4306 is second in the consist, helping on the journey west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112413 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Elba to Sagers (MP 516.2 to MP 519.9) Grand County, UT 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF After meeting the Provo-Denver and the eastbound California Zephyr, it is finally the Denver-Provo's turn to head west across the desert. The train is departing the siding of Elba and taking on the climb up Thompson Hill, a trio of EMDs in charge on the head end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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