Photo ID: 112407 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 538 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A look west from the west switch of Solitude. UP has what is known as a Form B active through here. For a Form B, a track foreman is in charge and puts up red flags around the work zone. Trains are not allowed to enter the work zone without explicit permission from the track foreman. As you can see, it appears that UP is replacing a lot of ties through here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112406 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 416 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific When a UP coal load derailed at the west switch of Solitude, the derailment damaged the switch itself. When UP repaired the tracks to get the mainline reopened, they did not bother to actually replace the switch. As you can see, the switch points are entirely missing. Not sure what this will mean for the siding of Solitude. UP has used it for long term storage of cars. Indeed, there are cars being stored there even when this picture was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112405 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 437 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A team of UP maintenance of way employees are gathered at the west switch of Solitude, working to continue some cleanup efforts after a loaded coal train derailed here at the west switch about 10 days earlier. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112398 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash (Oil Transload Facility) Carbon County, UT 412 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF, Union Pacific A look at the actual transload facility at Wash. As you can see, there are 11 oil trucks currently unloading their oil in the pipeline that leads to the storage tanks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112393 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 424 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A closeup shot of one of the many refrigerated box cars that is currently being stored in the upper yard at Helper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112392 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 435 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Not much hangs out in the yard at Helper these days. One thing that does seem to be in storage here is a long string of refrigerated box cars. They are in the upper yard at Helper. You can see there is a small slope up to those yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112391 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 404 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Earlier in the day, it was determined that UP 8377 has some PTC issues. It was removed from the rest of the units used in the helper set, which are on the track to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112390 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 383 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP does not have too many Tier-4 locomotives on the roster. And of the ones they do have, even fewer are EMD's SD70ACe-T4. The units are mechanically complex and expensive to maintain. UP 3069 is an example of one such unit. Not the long hood that does not have the slants that of a normal SD70ACe. Additionally, there are three radiator fans instead of two. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112389 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 396 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It is a quiet evening in the yard at Helper. There are no trains set to come through here in the little bit of daylight that remains. Two helper sets sit, waiting for their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112388 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Provo Yard (UP) Provo, UT 371 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific These interesting-looking units are both considered to be part of UP's Maintenance of Way fleet. They were built by a company named Relco in Albia, IA. They were introduced onto the roster in 2019. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112387 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Provo Yard (UP) Provo, UT 388 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While BNSF's Denver to Provo is working on entering the BNSF/Utah Railway yard at Provo, a UP work train sits in the UP yard at Provo. This work train was working at Mounds the previous day, but has now returned to Provo. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112372 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Skyline Load Out (MP 19) Carbon County, UT 365 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Pleasant Valley (UP) Union Pacific This UP coal empty has stopped short of the coal load out at Skyline Mine near the end of the Pleasant Valley Sub. The conductor is searching for one of the mine operators to facilitate loading the train. The big question is...how much life does the Skyline Mine and this load out have left in it? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112371 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Skyline Load Out (MP 19) Carbon County, UT 341 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Pleasant Valley (UP) Union Pacific This Intermountain Power coal empty has made its way 18 miles up the Pleasant Valley Sub and has arrived at the Skyline load out. The conductor hopped off the train to find somebody that works at the load out to coordinate loading the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112370 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Valcam (MP 17) Carbon County, UT 357 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Pleasant Valley (UP) Union Pacific At Valcam, near the Skyline load out, UP 5941 passes by some empty coal hoppers as it slows down, not too far off now from the Skyline load out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112369 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Scofield (MP 15) Carbon County, UT 398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Pleasant Valley (UP) Union Pacific The valley that Scofield Reservoir (and Scofield State Park) are in is truly a beautiful one! I could not have asked for better weather on this afternoon as this coal empty makes its way along at the max track speed of 20 MPH. The train is approaching the small town of Scofield, which has a population of roughly 27. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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