Photo ID: 112100 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Helper, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer heads west on Main 1 through Helper. The upper yard, to the left, is almost completely empty. For years, it was used to store coal hoppers. With coal largely gone as a resource in the United States, only a few strings of hoppers still remain. Seems kind of ironic that there are so many empty yard tracks here, when UP uses CTC sidings in the desert for storing cars. 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 15 (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. Photo ID: 112096 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, CO 16 (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: 112092 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grassy to Cedar Emery County, UT 15 (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: 112091 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 16 (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: 112090 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Grand County, UT 15 (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: 112089 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Grand County, UT 19 (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: 112037 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Seven Mile Grand County, UT 19 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Rocky Mountaineer At milepost 21 on the Cane Creek Sub, at a location that is, ironically enough, named Seven Mile, the Rocky Mountaineer's Rockies to the Red Rocks has completed the journey to the Red Rocks. Employees of the Mountaineer have detrained and are gathered for a briefing in advance of the upcoming season, set to start in a couple of weeks. A bus stands by to take the employees to a hotel in Moab for the night. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112036 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bartlett Wash Grand County, UT 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Rocky Mountaineer With only a few miles left in its run, the Rocky Mountaineer crosses over Bartlett Wash on the UP Cane Creek Subdivision. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112035 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Grand County, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Rocky Mountaineer Just before crossing over a greaser, which helps lubricate the tracks and wheel flanges to slow the wear and tear on the rails, the Rocky Mountaineer crosses a cattle guard. The train will pass underneath UT-191 just ahead, right near the Canyonlands Airport. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112034 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The engineer on the Rocky Mountaineer "Rockies to the Red Rocks" offers up a friendly wave as the train heads south on the Cane Creek Subdivision, not far off from its final stop of the day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112033 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Rocky Mountaineer With the desert mainline now behind it, the eight car Rocky Mountaineer is now headed south on the track warrant controlled Cane Creek Subdivision. The tracks largely parallel UT-191, with lots of traffic headed to or leaving Moab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112032 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Thompson Springs, UT 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer RMRX 8020 and train cross over the currently dried up Thompson Wash in the town of Thompson Springs, UT. The town barely exists anymore, with only 104 people actually calling it home (as of 2020). That, however, is a fairly significant increase since 2020 when the population was a mere 34 people. A new RV park in town seems to be attracting more folks. 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 20 (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: 112030 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Shale to Utaline Mesa County, CO 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The westbound Rocky Mountaineer "Rockies to the Red Rocks" is making its way through incredibly scenic Ruby Canyon along the Colorado River. The siding ahead is named Utaline as the siding sits right on the line between Colorado and Utah. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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