Photo ID: 101357 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers (RG520) Thompson, UT 1776 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF The last train to pass by the east end of Sagers in daylight (well, what's left of it anyway) was BNSF's Stockton to Denver manifest. The last few hints of sunlight are rapidly fading at 9:00pm as BNSF 4861 east heads quickly toward Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101356 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sagers (RG520) Thompson, UT 2101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande In the last few minutes of direct sunlight, we look at the sillouhette of the signal at the east switch of Sagers. It is 8:20pm as the sun sets behind the Book Cliffs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101355 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Agate (RG497) Thompson, UT 2272 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF An extremely short Denver to Riverbank, CA manifest approaches the east switch of Agate in the Utah Desert in the rapidly setting evening light. The train has three C44-9CW's (13,200 horsepower) to take the 13 cars in tow across the desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101354 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grand Junction Grand Junction, CO 1735 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF A BNSF trackage rights train, the MDVRBJ (Denver to Riverbank, CA) pulles into the station track at Grand Junction (about fifteen minutes after Amtrak 5 made its departure westbound). The train will cut off some cars in Grand Junction before continuing west across the Utah Desert. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101343 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utaline (RG482) Mack, CO 1752 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The sun is just about to peak over the ridge of Ruby Canyon five minutes after 6am as the MNYPV-03 makes its away along the Colorado River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100988 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mack Mack, CO 2042 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak After traversing the Utah Desert and Ruby Canyon, Amtrak 6 is still moving quickly through the town of Mack, CO, about 10 miles (north) west of Grand Junction. Amtrak sports engines wearing the Phase Vb scheme, a bagage car sporting the Phase III scheme, and Superliners showing off the Phase IV scheme! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100987 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Thompson, UT 2658 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Under partly cloudy skies, Amtrak 6 is moving at track speed (nearly 80 MPH) as it moves through the cut east of the ghost town of Thompson, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100986 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Wellington, UT 2104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Amtrak 6 met the westbound Denver to Provo trackage rights train at the siding of Wash in the town of Wellington, UT. The sidings of Wellington and Wash lay right on top of one another. You can see the signals in the distance with the west switch of Wash leading directly into the east switch of Wellington. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101025 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed Mounds Green River, UT 3036 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Stars swirl behind the signal at the east switch of Mounds. Note one star that is inconsistent with the rest (near the top of the photo). That is actually a shooting star streaking through the atmosphere! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100979 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mounds Green River, UT 2352 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Amtrak 5, running about four hours late, comes streaking past the view finder just west of Mounds. This was a 25 minute shot with clouds moving in and out of the frame, causing some sporadic stars to com into view. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100978 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash, UT Price, UT 2591 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande At this lonely grade crossing in the middle of the Utah desert, a cross buck and a stop sign do their best to protect the tracks. Granted, they do their job considering the low number of cars and trains that pass through in a day! The moon shines brightly in the southern sky in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100977 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Price, UT 1983 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande In the desert in between Wash and Mounds, the rails reflect the fading light in the western sky. Unfortunately, the rails in the desert are empty far more than they were twenty years ago under the Rio Grande. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100964 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Price Price, UT 2575 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Utah Railway Two dozen brand new IPPX hoppers are on the front of this Utah Railway coal empty as it passes through the town of Price. The train is headed for the Savage coal mine on the CV Spur. It will load there and then depart west, going back over Soldier Summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100958 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 30, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mounds Green River, UT 3670 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Perhaps my best night shot to date, this was a half hour (yep, nearly 30 minutes) exposure taken at the east switch of Mounds. It was taken between 5:30am and 6:00am, although the light behind the signal is not the sun. That is ambient light from the town of Wellington, about ten miles away. Note all the stars swirling around the North Star in the upper right corner of the photo. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101029 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 29, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed West of Agate Thompson, UT 2312 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Amtrak Amtrak moves quickly in the middle of the Utah desert! Here, the train is moving at track speed (around 75 MPH) as it tries to make it to Soldier Summit before night fall. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture.

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