Photo ID: 109139 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wellington, UT 190 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A UP crew works to get the head end power on this loaded oil train linked with the DPUs on the tail end. The crew brought the five units to Wash from Helper and put them together on the train. Once the link is complete and the air test is done, the train will depart east toward the Utah desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109136 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mounds to Wash Carbon County, UT 180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A single DPU brings up the tail end of a long, loaded ballast train. The train just received a fresh crew at Helper and is now making its way to Grand Junction, most likely to help shore up the line around Glenwood Canyon, which has been hit hard by rock and mud slides in the runoff this spring. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109129 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wellington, UT 389 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF Most of the oil trains that run on the Moffat these days are headed to (if empty) or coming from (if loaded) this transloading facility located off the siding at Wash on the eastern edge of the town of Wellington, UT. You can see there are multiple tracks for loading oil in to tank cars here. On the siding at Wash on the left side of the shot, a BNSF manifest sits with the head end power detached. The head end power is dropping off four tank cars here at the facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109128 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 13, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wellington, UT 208 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF In the siding of Wash, BNSF cuts the first four cars, all tank cars, away from the rest of the train. The tank cars will be spotted at the oil transload facility located here at Wash. After setting out the tank cars, the crew will put the train back together and continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100986 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wellington, UT 2104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Amtrak 6 met the westbound Denver to Provo trackage rights train at the siding of Wash in the town of Wellington, UT. The sidings of Wellington and Wash lay right on top of one another. You can see the signals in the distance with the west switch of Wash leading directly into the east switch of Wellington. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100978 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash, UT Price, UT 2591 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande At this lonely grade crossing in the middle of the Utah desert, a cross buck and a stop sign do their best to protect the tracks. Granted, they do their job considering the low number of cars and trains that pass through in a day! The moon shines brightly in the southern sky in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100977 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Price, UT 1983 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande In the desert in between Wash and Mounds, the rails reflect the fading light in the western sky. Unfortunately, the rails in the desert are empty far more than they were twenty years ago under the Rio Grande. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100452 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 11, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 3197 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rio Grande 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100169 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 24, 2003 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 1721 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100168 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 24, 2003 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 1476 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak It is just before 8am as the California Zephyr is moving across the Utah desert at 60 MPH on its journey east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100128 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 14, 2003 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 2309 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rio Grande 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100046 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 8, 2002 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 2554 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rio Grande 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100013 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 24, 2002 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 2621 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rio Grande 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100012 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 24, 2002 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wash, UT 1726 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.