Photo ID: 112055 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande The former yard at Green River, small though it once was, has now been largely converted into a dirt maintenance of way and storage area for Union Pacific. A couple of oil Rio Grande signals and several other control boxes sit in the quite morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112056 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound California Zephyr is running about an hour late, partly due to some CTC issues between Helper and Green River. The train slowly approaches the very nice platform and its station stop at Green River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112057 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr slowly pulls alongside the very nice platform at Green River. Alas, the former depot building itself, owned by UP, is locked up, fences off, and inaccessible to passengers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112058 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak As the California Zephyr comes to a stop for its station stop in Green River, a westbound UP empty oil train starts pulling west on the main track. The train had been stopped short of the grade crossing in the distance, so as not to block it. With the Zephyr now here, the train has started to pull to continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112059 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 21 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Amtrak's station stop in Green River was, like it usually is, extremely fast. There were no passengers to drop off and no passengers to pick off. The train came to a stop and the conductor immediately informed the engineer they could highball and continue east. As the Zephyr pulls away from the platform, a westbound UP oil train passes by on the main. Not the interesting number board on the conductors side of UP 8222, using a non-bold serif font. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112060 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific As this westbound UP oil train starts to pick up speed, it blurs by one of the Amtrak station signs for Green River under a cloudy, cool morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112061 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel to Floy Grand County, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr passes through some of the dirt mounds that makes the Utah desert so interesting and, in my opinion, extremely beautiful. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112062 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel to Floy Grand County, UT 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Along eastbound I-70, there is a very interesting Rest Area that looks over I-70 and the tracks. It makes for a great spot to get shots of eastbounds from an elevated perspective without the need for a drone. Here, the eastbound Zephyr is seen from that Rest Area. If you want to look for it, the Rest Area does not have an exit number, but it one exit west of exit 182. It is only accessible from eastbound I-70. 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 17 (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: 112064 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 12 (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: 112065 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 19 (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: 112066 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Hill Grand County, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local makes easy work of the 1% grade as it climbs through the S-Curve at the top of Thompson Hill. This is my personal favorite spot for shooting westbounds out in the Utah Desert! The clouds are even cooperating a giving a little sunlight on what is forecast to be an overcast day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112067 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson to Brendel Grand County, UT 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific For several years, UP has been operating a train on the Cane Creek Sub Monday-Thursday to clean up some radioactive waste. Atlas Minerals operated a uranium mill near Moab between 1956 and 1984. The mill produced 16 million tons of radioactive tailings. The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project was created to prevent potential contamination of the nearby Colorado River. UP hauls roughly roughly 10,000 tons of tailings per week to a new disposal sight near Crescent Junction, where the buried tailings will not risk contaminating the Colorado River or any other ground water. In this shot, the Potash Local passes by the tailings train near Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112068 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG533 (East Brendel) Grand County, UT 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific As the Potash Local passes by the signals at East Brendel, we take note of a billboard along I-70, advertising the popular outdoor tourist destination of Moab, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112069 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Right around MP 5 on the Cane Creek Subdivision, UP's Potash Local is taking 36 cars down the 38-mile branch to the Potash plant near Moab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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