Photo ID: 112085 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Grand County, UT 102 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific With its switching at Potash complete, the Potash Local is now headed back to Grand Junction with 26 loaded covered hopper cars in two. The train is paralleling the Colorado River, but will soon turn north into Bootlegger Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112086 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Grand County, UT 102 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The look of a spartan cab with UP "Baby Wings" on the nose looks pretty great as the Potash Local slowly makes its way toward Bootlegger Canyon, its switching at Potash complete from the week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112087 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 82 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The engineer on UP's Potash Local gives a friendly wave to several onlookers (out of the frame) in the Corona Arch Trailhead parking lot. The four units on the train are taking 26 loaded covered hoppers back to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112088 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local swings away from the Colorado River and toward Bootlegger Canyon so it can reach Moab Tunnel cutting eight miles off the journey cars must travel to reach the same point on the north side. The canyon was cut out for the rails in 1963 when the Cane Creek Sub was originally constructed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112089 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Grand County, UT 117 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer After coming up the Cane Creek Subdivision from Seven Mile and running around their train at Thompson, the Rocky Mountaineer is now heading further west than it ever has before. In 2026, the plan is to expand service of the train from Denver to Salt Lake City. This is the a non-revenue test run of the service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112090 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Grand County, UT 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer At the Moab exit off of I-70, exit 182, there is an eccentric gas station known as "Jackass Joe's". It is colorful and covered in stickers. The gas is a bit pricey...$2.00 more per gallon than the Exxon a few miles east in Thompson Springs...but it is quite the little station. The westbound Rocky Mountaineer passes by on the mainline at Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112091 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer GP40-3s lead the train west across the Green River in the oasis in the desert that is also named Green River. The eight car train is headed for Salt Lake City as part of a test run for expanded service in 2026. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112092 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grassy to Cedar Emery County, UT 122 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer With the Book Cliffs in the distance, the Rocky Mountaineer is now on the 1.1% grade, climbing up Cedar Hill. The train only has another 35 miles or so before reaching Helper and the end of the Utah desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112093 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, UT 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A little track crawling hyrailer moves tank cars around at the Price River Terminal Crude Oil Transload Facility near Wellington. This is where oil trains that run on the former Rio Grande are loaded, the oil transferred from truck to tank car. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112094 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, UT 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF A string of six BNSF units sit on one of the yard tracks at the transload facility at Wash. Three of the units will run around to the east end of a loaded oil train for the trip back east toward Denver and beyond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112095 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, UT 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific At least ten tanker trucks, each filled with oil, are transferring their content over to the oil tanks. From their, the oil will be loaded into tank cars to create unit oil trains to head east. A track working hyrailer switches around some tank cars in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112096 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, CO 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer rolls west on the mainline by oil transload facility at Wash, just outside Wellington, UT. If you've seen oil trains running on the Moffat in Colorado, this is where they are headed (if they are empty) or where they are coming from (if they are loaded). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112097 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 103 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A fantastic-looking SD70M, UP 4190, is powered down and rests in the yard. Not sure if it is being stored, or if it simply waiting for some assignment, but it's been awhile since I've seen an SD70M sporting paint quite this pristine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112098 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Helper continues to live up to its name, even in 2025. A dozen or so units idle away in the lower yard at Helper, waiting for their next assignment. Heavy westbounds, including oil trains and coal trains, still have manned helpers added to them for the 2.15% climb up Soldier Summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112099 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rocky Mountaineer The westbound Rocky Mountaineer is has eight cars, testing out expanded service set to being in 2026. The train will be rebranded from the Rockies to the Red Rocks to the Canyon Spirit. The train, for the first time, rolls by the Amtrak platform in Helper on Main 1. Main 2 sits closest to the platform, which has a couple of folks watching the passing train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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