Photo ID: 112397 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash (Oil Transload Facility) Carbon County, UT 178 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF The yard here at Wash has existed for decades, although for a long time, it had coal hoppers in it and there was a small coal transload facility here. Starting in 2015, the facility started to be converted to an oil transload facility. For the past several years, oil trains are loaded regularly here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112396 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash (Oil Transload Facility) Carbon County, UT 180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF I found this unit to be rather interesting. Perhaps even one of a kind...the unit is a hybrid between the BNSF New Image paint scheme and the Heritage 2 paint scheme. I do not recall seeing a unit like this before. If there are more, such units, please feel free to comment on them! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112395 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash (Oil Transload Facility) Carbon County, UT 200 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF, Norfolk Southern Three Norfolk Southern units, an SD70ACe and two AC4400CWs, are currently working for BNSF. They units will be part of an eastbound oil load, once the train is ready. At the moment, they are sitting at the transload facility at Wash. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112394 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash (Oil Transload Facility) Carbon County, UT 168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF Six units sit at the oil transload facility at Wash. Interestingly, three of the units are Norfolk Southern. When I was headed to Utah from Colorado, I passed this power on an oil train at Parachute. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112333 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG625 (Spring Glen) Spring Glen, UT 124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A single ET44AC, one of the few Tier-4 locomotives on UP's roster, brings up the tail end of this westbound coal load at Spring Glen. The coal is headed for Long Beach, CA, where it will be exported. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112332 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Maxwell to Spring Glen (MP 622.8 to MP 624.2) Carbonville, UT 168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific After loading at the West Elk mine in Colorado the day before, this coal load is crossing Kenilworth Road on the approach to Spring Glen and the start of two main tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112331 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Maxwell (6,350 ft) Carbonville, UT 238 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The California Zephyr is about an hour late this morning, which worked out perfectly for lighting! The train hustles east here at the siding of Maxwell, in between Helper and Price. It is meeting a westbound coal load, which arrived in the siding just a few minutes earlier. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112309 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mounds to Wash (MP 603.9 to MP 610.1) Carbon County, UT 111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific In between the sidings of Mounds and Wash, four units are taking an empty oil train to the yard tracks at Wash. The empty tanks had been tied down in the siding at Mounds, without any power. Once dropping the train off at Wash, the UP power will return to Helper (where they originated) to tie down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112308 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mounds (8,930 ft) Emery County, UT 107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific An empty oil train has been tied down in the siding at Mounds for awhile, without any power. On this particular afternoon, four units were sent east out of Helper to pick up the train and take it west to Wash. A UP maintenance of way train works along the Sunnyside Subdivision in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112307 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel (5,100 ft) Grand County, UT 133 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific In the distance, you can see the new burial site for Uranium mill tailings that are being transported by Union Pacific with the Department of Energy from a previous site near Moab that threatened ground waters and the Colorado River itself. Roughly 14 million of an estimated 16 million tons of tailing have already been transported here. The project is expected to be complete by the end of the decade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112306 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel (5,100 ft) Grand County, UT 195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Starting in 2009, the Department of Energy set forth on a project to clean up an estimated 16 million tons of Uranium Mill Tailings at the former Atlas Minerals Corporation site, close to the Colorado River near Moab. UP upgraded much of the rail on the Cane Creek Sub, even installing some welded rail, to support the project. Uranium mill tailings are loaded onto trains that are taken up the Cane Creek Sub to the Crescent Junction Disposal site, created for the project. Here, the tailings are buried in a safe location with no ground water implications. UP 5302 and UP 6967 are two of the units that currently have the duty of moving roughly 4,700 tons in each trainload. The train does not run Friday through Sunday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112305 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson to Brendel (MP 528.8 to MP 533.3) Grand County, UT 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local rolls east with 35 empty covered hoppers just east of Brendel. It is at Brendel that the train will depart the mainline (and the Green River Sub), and enter the Cane Creek Sub. The train already has their warrant from the dispatcher, so they are ready to head south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112304 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers (7,760 ft) Grand County, UT 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local is in the siding at Sagers, having just met the quickly-moving eastbound California Zephyr. The Potash Local only runs once a week, always on Fridays. Monday through Thursday, the same power is generally used on the Minturn Local, running east out of Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112303 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Floy to Solitude (MP 540.9 to MP 546.2) Grand County, UT 157 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Passengers aboard the California Zephyr are hopefully enjoying the incredible views of the Utah desert under crystal clear skies this morning. The train is making its way east toward its next station stop in Grand Junction, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112302 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Floy to Solitude (MP 540.9 to MP 546.2) Grand County, UT 406 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The Utah desert is, without a doubt, one of my favorite places to shoot trains anywhere. There is such a raw beauty to the desert, as seen here with the eastbound Zephyr makes its way through some curves near Floy. The amazing Book Cliff create a fantastic backdrop for the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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