Photo ID: 112084 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific This pretty much is as definitive "end of track" as you can have! The Cane Creek Subdivision comes to an abrupt end with a huge pile of red rocks and a sudden drop off at the south end of the Potash facility, 37.4 miles south of the mainline at Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112083 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local has hauled the inbound 36 cars as far as they can. They will now cut the two GP40Ns away from the train, tying it down first, and then return to the outbound train at the north end of the facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112082 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific With the outbound train blocking the opposite track at the north end, the crew of the Potash Local must bring in this string of inbound empties all the way to the south end of the tracks so the two GP40Ns can run light and cross back over to the clear track to the north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112081 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific And overview of the tracks at Potash. 26 loaded outbound cars are sitting in the distance, a pair of units charging the air for the return trip to Grand Junction. Meanwhile, the crew of the local brings the 36 inbound empty cars to the south end of the facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112080 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Very tragically, a forklift made contact with an overhead high voltage power line on November 10, 2018. Three men that worked for Intrepid Potash were electrocuted and, unfortunately, lost their lives in the accident. A very beautiful memorial to the three men has been erected by Intrepid Potash in 2020. The Potash Local slowly rolls by in the background, ready to spot a string of cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112079 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific I can certainly think of worse views to take in while working than this! The Potash Local is pulling a string of 36 empty covered hoppers in near the Potash mine, a pair of GP40Ns currently in charge of the cars. Of note, UP 1540 was originally delivered to Western Pacific in April 1980 as WP 3550. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112078 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific While two of the Potash Local's units sit on the outbound cars, charging the air line, the crew takes the 36 empties down the inbound track to be spotted at the industry for the Potash switcher to handle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112077 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Two of the four units from the Potash Local have cut away from the other two units and the remainder of the train. The crew is bringing these two units down to the string of 26 loaded cars that are ready to head back to Grand Junction. The crew will use these two units to start charging the air brakes on the loaded cars (whose hand brakes are still applied) while using the other two units to spot the incoming empties. This will help the crew to be able to depart back for Grand Junction sooner. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101028 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed North of Potash Thompson, UT 2440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local, being led by a C40-8 and an SD40-2 make their way around the Colorado River in the canyon in which the Potash plant is located. The train is about two miles from the end of the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100950 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Thompson, UT 2226 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local has reached the end of (roughly) 30 mile journey down the Cane Creek Subdivision. On this Friday afternoon, the local was led by a C40-8 sporting "baby wings" on the nose. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100949 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Thompson, UT 2266 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Having descended down to the level of the Colorado River, the Potash Local follows SR-279 through a Canyon about three miles from the end of the line at the Potash plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100275 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 14, 2004 Tyler Eaton Location Times Viewed Potash Potash, UT 2370 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local reaches the end of the branch at Potash. The branch parallel's the Colorado River here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.