Photo ID: 109104 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cisco to Whitehouse Grand County, UT 269 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific I absolutely love the rugged beauty that can be found in the Utah desert. The mesas in and around Ruby Canyon are visible in the distance as a UP empty oil train, running in a 5x1 configuration, climbs the 1% grade east of Whitehouse. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109103 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cisco to Whitehouse Grand County, UT 185 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Oil trains have really started to increase in frequency on the ex-DRGW in the past few months. A westbound empty is seen here, climbing the 1% grade west of Cisco, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109102 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 184 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific An ET44AC leads a westbound side-dump maintenance of way train along the Book Cliffs through the middle of the Utah desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109101 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 201 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A westbound side-dump MOW train, with several cars carrying large boulders, winds its way amongst the large mounds of dirt that are found throughout the Utah desert along the Book Cliffs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109100 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers to Thompson Grand County, UT 193 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific In the Utah desert, between the sidings of Sagers and Thompson, a westbound side dump MOW train rolls west in a 1x1 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109099 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 12, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brendel Grand County, UT 196 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Sunday through Thursday, UP runs a uranium trailings train on the Potash Branch from Brendel. Here, an un-crewed train sits in one of the storage tracks used for loading and unloading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105211 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 24, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction Grand Junction, CO 1569 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound California Zephyr, running a little late, is pulling down the Depot Siding in Grand Junction, preparing for its scheduled station stop. You can see the Grand Junction depot in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105210 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 24, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG450 (Grand Junction) Grand Junction, CO 1855 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The eastbound California Zephyr leave the main track (and the Green River Subdivision) behind as it enters the Depot Siding at Grand Junction. Currently stored alongside the main here is a string of switch engines (including several GP15-1s). If you closely, you'll also notice a pair of ACS-64s behind the head end power. These are new electric units (built by Siemens) being moved to the Northeast Corridor to replace AEM-7s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104315 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fruita Fruita, CO 1995 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Its journey across the desert complete, the eastbound California Zephyr is now approaching Grand Junction where it will receive a fresh crew (engineer and conductor) for the trip to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104314 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG527 (East Thompson) Thompson, UT 3108 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak The curve at the east end of the siding of Thompson is a great place to shoot eastbounds in the morning. Since the desert can be unreliable at best (as far as trains go), the California Zephyr is always a good candidate! About ten minutes late here, the eastbound Zephyr just passed through the virtual ghost town of Thompson. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104313 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Thompson, UT 2160 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Doesn't get much better than this! A brilliant sunrise mixed in with a few morning clouds in the Utah desert. This shot is in homage to the soon-to-be-replaced signal in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104312 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Thompson, UT 1966 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The existing signal for the mainline is located in between the main and the siding (to the left) while the new signal UP is putting up will be on the left side of the main for approaching trains. It appears on the right side of the main in this shot as we are looking at the back of the signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104311 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Thompson, UT 2156 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Relics from the past! Codeline is become harder and harder to find. It's time in the Utah Desert is definitely limited as new signals are being erected by UP that will be driven entirely off of ATCS (wireless radio). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104310 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Thompson, UT 2164 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific After a great night of starry photography, the sun is finally cresting over the eastern horizon in the Utah Desert. The soon-to-be-removed codeline makes for a nice silhouette in front of the colorful sunrise. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104309 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG521 (West Sagers) Thompson, UT 2808 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Definitely one of my favorite night shots to date. Sun rising in the east? Nope! It was barely 4am when snapping this picture. That is actually a crescent moon making its way in to the night sky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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