Photo ID: 112383 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG696 (Springville (Crossover)) Springville, UT 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF I really like the area at the Springville Crossover. The tracks are right across the street from many houses. It would be a pretty great place to live to watch trains, like this Denver-Provo, pass by out your front window. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112382 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thistle Tunnels to Castilla (MP 680.6 to MP 684.7) Utah County, UT 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF The Denver to Provo manifest has passed through the Thistle Tunnels, built in 1983 after a massive mudslide buried the original tracks and the small town of Thistle. Rio Grande built seven miles of tracks on a new alignment and constructed a new tunnel in three months. The second tunnel was added shortly thereafter. The cut in the distance, for US-6, was also constructed with the highway realignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112381 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG677 (Rio (Crossover)) Utah County, UT 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF Between Springville and Gilluly, a distance of 34 miles, there are three crossovers. At Castilla and Narrows, the crossover would take a train from running on the lefthand main to the righthand main. Rio, in between Castilla and Narrows, would allow a train to cross from the righthand main to the lefthand main. Here at Rio, BNSF's Denver-Provo is already on the lefthand main (from the train point-of-view), Main 2, as it heads west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112380 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detour (MP 665.3) Utah County, UT 97 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF The Denver-Provo is making its ways down the roughly 2% grade at the area known as Detour. There are some nice curves here, that do allow for getting shots of the train off in the distance. If you look closely, you can just see part of the train in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112379 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detour (MP 665.3) Utah County, UT 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF At an area known as Detour, the tracks follow along the edge of the mountains, quite a little ways above US-6, which is well out of frame to the right. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112378 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Gilluly (Center Siding) (7,900 ft) Utah County, UT 86 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF The Denver-Provo wraps around the 180º curve, crossing underneath US-6 on Main 2. It is off of Main 2 here at Gilluly where you can find a house track. If a train had to set out a car, DS-378 could cross the train over to Main 2 (if necessary) to allow them to make a set out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112377 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Summit to Gilluly (MP 651.9 to MP 659.8) Utah County, UT 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver to Provo is descending the roughly 2% grade above Gilluly. There is a nine mile stretch of track between Soldier Summit and Gilluly in which there are no sidings and no crossovers. The train has covered around six miles of that trackage, with just a few more curves and loops before reaching Gilluly. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112376 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG652 (West Summit) Wasatch County, UT 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF BNSF 6251 has crested the summit at the top of Soldier Summit, and is passing through the crossover at West Soldier Summit. The crew is a BNSF crew, based in Grand Junction. The crew will lay over in Provo. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112375 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Soldier Summit (7,840 ft) Wasatch County, UT 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF One of the regular trains to run over Soldier Summit is BNSF's Denver-Provo (and its counterpart). Here, the Denver-Provo is just coming up and over the top of Soldier Summit, 7,477 feet above sea level. It's roughly 50 miles to go for the train to reach Provo...its final destination. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112374 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kyune (Center Siding) (5,230 ft) Utah County, UT 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF Two ES44ACs and an SD70ACe lead BNSF's Denver to Provo on Main 2 alongside the Price River at Kyune. With no opposing traffic...and a second main, even if there was...the train will have a straight shot all the way to Provo. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112373 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kyune (Center Siding) (5,230 ft) Utah County, UT 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver to Provo manifest winds its way through the S-Curves at Kyune. The train is running on Main 2 as it heads west this morning. That's the beauty of CTC! The dispatcher can run trains in either direction, on either Main 1 or Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112363 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG645 (Colton (Crossover)) Utah County, UT 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific These fives units were mid-train DPUs on a westbound loaded oil train. The crew followed the train (in a van) to Colton, where the DPUs were de-linked from the oil train and the crew got aboard the five units and cut them out of the oil train. They were getting ready to return to Helper when they discovered PTC was not working on the lead unit, UP 8377. They called UP's "PTC Help Desk" to see if they could get an exemption to return to Helper without PTC enabled. Unfortunately, the lady working the PTC help desk did not understand that these units were cut out here at Colton, about 20 miles west of Helper. The help desk said that they needed to swap units with one that had PTC operationally. As the crew explained (and as you can see in this shot) the other four units are facing west and could not be used as a leader. The crew went back and forth with the help desk for nearly an hour! At one point, the crew lost their patience and said "we've been running trains out here for 150 years...why can't we just get a PTC exemption to run 20 miles east". Finally, after speaking with supervisors, the PTC help desk granted them an exception to return to helper without PTC enabled. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112362 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG645 (Colton (Crossover)) Utah County, UT 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific The Skyline Mine on the Pleasant Valley Subdivision still periodically loads coal trains. I was lucky enough during my handful of days on Soldier Summit to catch one heading that direction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112361 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Colton to Summit (MP 644.9 to MP 649.9) Wasatch County, UT 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific As this Intermountain Power coal empty crosses UT-96, the train is also slowing as it is running on a yellow over flashing red (Approach Restricting) signal. The train will be leaving Main 2 ahead at Colton to enter the Pleasant Valley Subdivision. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112360 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG660 (East Gilluly) Wasatch County, UT 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Union Pacific The eastbound grade here at Gilluly is close to 2%. Fortunately, this coal train is empty, so the four units (setup 2x2) are having no problem making the climb. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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