Photo ID: 112073 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local reaches the south end of Bootlegger Canyon, and wraps around the edge of the red rocks to rejoin the Colorado River for the remainder of the journey to Potash. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112072 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 26 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Cane Creek Subdivision runs near both Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. Bootlegger Canyon, seen here, not only hosts the rails, but also Corona Arch (top left of the picture). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112071 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local emerges from the 7,000-foot long tunnel on the Cane Creek Sub, entering into Bootlegger Canyon. This tunnel shaves off roughly eight miles that would be necessary to run around the rock formations that the road follows. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112070 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 5 Grand County, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Cane Creek Subdivision was built by Rio Grande in 1963, specifically to access the Potash plant near Moab. A weekly local, which runs out of Grand Junction on Fridays, brings empty covered hoppers to the plant and picks up loads. Here, an SD70M, a GP60, and two GP40Ns have 36 empties in tow along UT-191. 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 22 (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. Photo ID: 112037 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Seven Mile Grand County, UT 25 (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 20 (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 23 (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 18 (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 23 (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: 101028 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed North of Potash Thompson, UT 2440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local, being led by a C40-8 and an SD40-2 make their way around the Colorado River in the canyon in which the Potash plant is located. The train is about two miles from the end of the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100950 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Thompson, UT 2226 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local has reached the end of (roughly) 30 mile journey down the Cane Creek Subdivision. On this Friday afternoon, the local was led by a C40-8 sporting "baby wings" on the nose. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100949 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Thompson, UT 2266 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Having descended down to the level of the Colorado River, the Potash Local follows SR-279 through a Canyon about three miles from the end of the line at the Potash plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100948 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Thompson, UT 2242 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local departs the mainline at Brendel (the Crescent Junction exit on I-70) and turns south on the Cane Creek Subdivision. The terrain starts off very open in the Utah Desert, but will change rapidly as the branch approaches the Colorado River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100275 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 14, 2004 Tyler Eaton Location Times Viewed Potash Potash, UT 2370 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local reaches the end of the branch at Potash. The branch parallel's the Colorado River here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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