Photo ID: 112065 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 23 (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 18 (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 20 (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: 112044 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Following on the yellow signals of a coal train ahead of it, another loaded coal train is making its way up Thompson Hill. This train, similar to the one it is following, is configured 2x(0)x1. However, this train only has 75 loaded hoppers in tow, make it quite a bit shorter and lighter. The 4th tallest mountain in Utah, Mount Waas, stands tall in the distance at an elevation of 12,331 feet (3,758 meters). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112041 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Union Pacific has very slowly been replacing the signals out in the desert. By "very slowly", I mean I saw some signal masts that were up in 2023 that seemingly not been touched in the past two years! I'm not complaining, however, as it means there are still opportunities for shots like this! A westbound coal load passes by old Rio Grande intermediate signals on the approach to Thompson. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112040 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 19 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific I absolutely love the beauty of the Utah desert. Parts almost look like the surface of the moon, such as these dirt mounds on the opposite side of UP 6401 and UP 8584, working as hard as they can to carry a California-bound coal load up the 1% grade of Thompson Hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112039 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific This westbound UP coal train is going less that 20 MPH as it limps along, trying to tackle Thompson Hill. Some bad order units had to be removed from the train in Grand Junction, yet UP still said to send the train west, despite it being rather underpowered. For the astute observer, you might notice that there is in fact a second train in this shot! In fact, a second westbound coal load is visible to the right side of the shot and slightly up, in the shadows! This train is between Elba and Sagers, a few miles east, riding the yellows of this first coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112031 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 27 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer Some maintenance of way work at Sagers resulted in the Rocky Mountaineer briefly stopped and then running through the siding. Now back on the main, the GP40-3s are throttling up as the train really bites into the 1% grade on the climb up Thompson Hill, kicking out a little exhaust for their effort. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109149 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Thompson, UT 303 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak In fantastic golden light at the end of the day, the westbound Zephyr approaches a clear (green) signal at the east end of Thompson. In the distance, lurking in the shadows of afternoon thunderstorms, is the 12,331-foot peak of Mt Waas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109148 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 309 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The massive landscape of the Utah desert dwarfs the westbound Zephyr as it hustles west on its journey toward Emeryville, CA. The sun is getting low in the western sky as the Zephyr, about two hour late, is between Sagers and Thompson. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109118 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 358 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF Making its way through the S-Curve east of Thompson, four BNSF units lead a Denver-Provo manifest through the Utah desert. The train met the eastbound Zephyr at Cisco, but will not meet another train before reaching two main tracks at Helper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109117 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 297 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF Not far from the relative ghost town of Thompson, UT, this westbound BNSF Denver-Provo skirts along Book Cliffs in a relatively green desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109102 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 240 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific An ET44AC leads a westbound side-dump maintenance of way train along the Book Cliffs through the middle of the Utah desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109101 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A westbound side-dump MOW train, with several cars carrying large boulders, winds its way amongst the large mounds of dirt that are found throughout the Utah desert along the Book Cliffs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109100 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 249 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific In the Utah desert, between the sidings of Sagers and Thompson, a westbound side dump MOW train rolls west in a 1x1 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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