Photo ID: 112072 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bootlegger Canyon Grand County, UT 56 (2 Comments Posted) 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 53 (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 36 (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 39 (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: 112068 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG533 (East Brendel) Grand County, UT 40 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific As the Potash Local passes by the signals at East Brendel, we take note of a billboard along I-70, advertising the popular outdoor tourist destination of Moab, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112067 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson to Brendel Grand County, UT 45 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific For several years, UP has been operating a train on the Cane Creek Sub Monday-Thursday to clean up some radioactive waste. Atlas Minerals operated a uranium mill near Moab between 1956 and 1984. The mill produced 16 million tons of radioactive tailings. The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project was created to prevent potential contamination of the nearby Colorado River. UP hauls roughly roughly 10,000 tons of tailings per week to a new disposal sight near Crescent Junction, where the buried tailings will not risk contaminating the Colorado River or any other ground water. In this shot, the Potash Local passes by the tailings train near Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112066 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Hill Grand County, UT 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local makes easy work of the 1% grade as it climbs through the S-Curve at the top of Thompson Hill. This is my personal favorite spot for shooting westbounds out in the Utah Desert! The clouds are even cooperating a giving a little sunlight on what is forecast to be an overcast day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112065 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 43 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific While UP's Potash Local waits for a signal out of the siding at Sagers, we take note of a new signal mast that will eventually replace the westbound mainline signal that still stands to the left. For many decades, railroads would try to always place block signals on the righthand side of trains moving toward them. However, that practice seems to have given way to placing signals where ever it is most convenient! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112064 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers Grand County, UT 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific After meeting the eastbound California Zephyr, the westbound Potash Local is waiting on a signal to depart the siding at Sagers. The local has four units today, and is hauling 36 empty covered hoppers to the Potash plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112060 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 37 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific As this westbound UP oil train starts to pick up speed, it blurs by one of the Amtrak station signs for Green River under a cloudy, cool morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112059 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Amtrak's station stop in Green River was, like it usually is, extremely fast. There were no passengers to drop off and no passengers to pick off. The train came to a stop and the conductor immediately informed the engineer they could highball and continue east. As the Zephyr pulls away from the platform, a westbound UP oil train passes by on the main. Not the interesting number board on the conductors side of UP 8222, using a non-bold serif font. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112055 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 45 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande The former yard at Green River, small though it once was, has now been largely converted into a dirt maintenance of way and storage area for Union Pacific. A couple of oil Rio Grande signals and several other control boxes sit in the quite morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112054 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River to Sphinx Green River, UT 44 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific Riding off into the sunset! A fantastic end to a fantastic day as this westbound coal load leaves Green River behind to continue on its journey west toward California. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112053 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG556 (West Green River) Green River, UT 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific With the Zephyr now past and the sun now hiding behind clouds to the west, it is this coal loads turn to head west. The two units on the head end "put their backs into it" as they throttle up to start the climb toward Helper and Soldier Summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112049 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 57 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific In a sky that has had clouds building all day, a sucker hole opened up and provided some direct sunlight at the west end of Green River. This coal train is currently stopped, the crew looking at all red. The westbound Zephyr is going to overtake the train here. The depot at Green River is located on the siding, hence the necessity for the coal train to hold the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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