Photo ID: 112290 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction (Amtrak Depot) Grand Junction, CO 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer is briefly stopped on the main track here at Grand Junction. While no passengers get on or off the train here, it is a crew change point for the Rocky Mountaineer. The fresh crew will take the train east from Grand Junction to Glenwood Springs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112289 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG450 to Durham (MP 450.1 to MP 451.1) Grand Junction, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Rocky Mountaineer A westbound coal load is ready to depart west. It was just waiting for the eastbound Rocky Mountaineer, which is now approaching on the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112288 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction to CP RG450 (MP 449.1 to MP 450.1) Grand Junction, CO 112 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr departs the station at Grand Junction. A coal train that loaded at the West Elk Mine is actually making a reverse move onto the lead track along the main. It will be ready to depart west after the Zephyr departs and the Rocky Mountaineer comes through. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112286 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction (Amtrak Depot) Grand Junction, CO 86 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is making an on-time station stop at Grand Junction. Passengers have about five minutes to step off the train here for a quick stretch. The engineer and conductor also change crews here. A Salt Lake City crew will board the train for the journey west across the Utah desert. The Denver crew, getting off the train, will stay in Grand Junction overnight and take tomorrow's eastbound train back to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112285 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction (Amtrak Depot) Grand Junction, CO 81 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Running right on time, the westbound Zephyr is slowly pulling into the station at Grand Junction. Several passengers wait on the platform, ready to board the train for the continued trip west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112121 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Woodside (6,310 ft) Emery County, UT 131 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The final picture of an epic trip to Utah, the westbound California Zephyr heads west on the main at Woodside toward an fantastic sunset. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112120 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG581 (East Woodside) Emery County, UT 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Just minutes before sunset, the westbound California Zephyr, running about 40 minutes late, knocks down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Woodside in the Utah desert. The train just passed through a 30 MPH slow order and is now accelerating to get back up to track speed. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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