The heavy rains have created some very lush plants on the desert floor! Grande Tunnel Motors 5390 and 5371 (along with UP 7060) lead the eastbound Dirt Train out of the siding of Wash towards Mounds and the Sunnyside Subdivision.
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Just mintues behind Amtrak is a empty coal train that is headed for the North Fork branch in western Colorado. Union Pacific will sometimes run coal empties west across Wyoming, then back east across the Utah desert to Grand Junction.
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It is just before 8am as the California Zephyr is moving across the Utah desert at 60 MPH on its journey east.
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The Dirt Train, led by DRGW 5349, is just coming east out of the siding of Wash. The train will run another nine miles to Mounds before leaving the mainline behind.
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The dirt train is not making a run all the way to Sunnyside on this particular day. Instead, the Rio Grande tunnel motors will drop off the cars for the dirt train on the siding at Wash for temporary storage. After leaving the cars behind, the tunnel motors will run back to Helper light.
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Four Rio Grande SD40T-2s lead the so-called "Dirt Train" eastbound just east of the siding of Wash near Wellington, UT. The Dirt Train actually carries trash from the Salt Lake City area to a landfill on the Sunnyside Subdivision in the Utah desert.
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The California Zephyr has left the mountains behind and is now entering the Utah desert. The train will run through Green River and eventually Grand Junction on its way to Denver.
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