Sunday through Thursday, UP runs a uranium trailings train on the Potash Branch from Brendel. Here, an un-crewed train sits in one of the storage tracks used for loading and unloading.
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In the Utah desert, between the sidings of Sagers and Thompson, a westbound side dump MOW train rolls west in a 1x1 configuration.
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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.
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An ET44AC leads a westbound side-dump maintenance of way train along the Book Cliffs through the middle of the Utah desert.
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Oil trains have really started to increase in frequency on the ex-DRGW in the past few months. A westbound empty is seen here, climbing the 1% grade west of Cisco, UT.
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I absolutely love the rugged beauty that can be found in the Utah desert. The mesas in and around Ruby Canyon are visible in the distance as a UP empty oil train, running in a 5x1 configuration, climbs the 1% grade east of Whitehouse.
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UP has a little power sharing going on with a Kansas City Southern de Mexico ES44AC. The KCS unit is bringing up the tail end of an empty unit oil train. The power will be removed at Wash, where the train will be loaded. The power will be taken to Helper to await the return trip east.
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Despite being in the arid climate of the Utah desert, the month of May has brought quite a bit of rain and turned the desert into a pretty nice shade of green. A westbound oil train moves away from the camera, crossing underneath I-70, headed toward a clear (green) signal at east Whitehouse.
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Running a little over three hours behind schedule, the westbound Zephyr is on the main at Durham, heading in to the rapidly setting sun. Note the somewhat interesting numbers of the two P42s leading the train: AMTK 169 and AMTK 196.
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