Photo ID: 112088 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific UP's Potash Local swings away from the Colorado River and toward Bootlegger Canyon so it can reach Moab Tunnel cutting eight miles off the journey cars must travel to reach the same point on the north side. The canyon was cut out for the rails in 1963 when the Cane Creek Sub was originally constructed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112087 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The engineer on UP's Potash Local gives a friendly wave to several onlookers (out of the frame) in the Corona Arch Trailhead parking lot. The four units on the train are taking 26 loaded covered hoppers back to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112086 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Grand County, UT 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The look of a spartan cab with UP "Baby Wings" on the nose looks pretty great as the Potash Local slowly makes its way toward Bootlegger Canyon, its switching at Potash complete from the week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112085 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Grand County, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific With its switching at Potash complete, the Potash Local is now headed back to Grand Junction with 26 loaded covered hopper cars in two. The train is paralleling the Colorado River, but will soon turn north into Bootlegger Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112084 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific This pretty much is as definitive "end of track" as you can have! The Cane Creek Subdivision comes to an abrupt end with a huge pile of red rocks and a sudden drop off at the south end of the Potash facility, 37.4 miles south of the mainline at Brendel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112083 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash Local has hauled the inbound 36 cars as far as they can. They will now cut the two GP40Ns away from the train, tying it down first, and then return to the outbound train at the north end of the facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112082 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific With the outbound train blocking the opposite track at the north end, the crew of the Potash Local must bring in this string of inbound empties all the way to the south end of the tracks so the two GP40Ns can run light and cross back over to the clear track to the north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112081 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific And overview of the tracks at Potash. 26 loaded outbound cars are sitting in the distance, a pair of units charging the air for the return trip to Grand Junction. Meanwhile, the crew of the local brings the 36 inbound empty cars to the south end of the facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112080 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 23 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Very tragically, a forklift made contact with an overhead high voltage power line on November 10, 2018. Three men that worked for Intrepid Potash were electrocuted and, unfortunately, lost their lives in the accident. A very beautiful memorial to the three men has been erected by Intrepid Potash in 2020. The Potash Local slowly rolls by in the background, ready to spot a string of cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112079 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific I can certainly think of worse views to take in while working than this! The Potash Local is pulling a string of 36 empty covered hoppers in near the Potash mine, a pair of GP40Ns currently in charge of the cars. Of note, UP 1540 was originally delivered to Western Pacific in April 1980 as WP 3550. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112078 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 22 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific While two of the Potash Local's units sit on the outbound cars, charging the air line, the crew takes the 36 empties down the inbound track to be spotted at the industry for the Potash switcher to handle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112077 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Potash Grand County, UT 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific Two of the four units from the Potash Local have cut away from the other two units and the remainder of the train. The crew is bringing these two units down to the string of 26 loaded cars that are ready to head back to Grand Junction. The crew will use these two units to start charging the air brakes on the loaded cars (whose hand brakes are still applied) while using the other two units to spot the incoming empties. This will help the crew to be able to depart back for Grand Junction sooner. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112076 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 34 Grand County, UT 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The Potash local is slowing as it is approaching a switch at the north end of the Potash plant along UT-279 and the Colorado River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112075 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific We are now a little over 31 miles south of the desert mainline (the Green River Subdivision) at Brendel. Another couple of miles and the Potash Local will reach its destination to switch out some cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112074 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Grand County, UT 21 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Cane Creek (UP) Union Pacific The people gathered in this shot, just outside a massive cut made in the red rocks to accommodate the rails, are not here for the train. The tracks cross the Corona Arch trailhead, with the arch being the attraction these folks are after. However, even a non-railfan sometimes enjoys stopping to watch a once-weekly train roll by on the tracks. 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