About a mile west of Mounds on the Sunnyside Branch, this is the branch line that runs 13 miles from Mounds out to the ECDC trash site in East Carbon City. This exposure was five minutes and lit exclusively by moon light.
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A shot soon to never be had again. Two of the three remaining Grande Tunnel Motors work to pull the Dirt Train down the Sunnyside Subdivision to its destination of Banning.
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About two miles away from the main track at Mounds, the Dirt Train passes through this nice S-Curve on the Sunnyside Subdivision. The train is moving at 15 MPH heading toward its destination of Banning.
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No longer on the mainline, the Dirt Train is now "creeping" along at 15 MPH on the Sunnyside Subdivision. This spur used to lead to a mine near the town of Sunnyside, but its sole purpose now is to serve the Dirt Train.
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Near the final destination of the Dirt Train, this SD9 bearing the reporting marks ECDC sat, shut down.
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The Dirt Train follows a huge S-curve along the floor of the Utah Desert, the Book Cliffs in the background. The Dirt Train is heading toward Banning and, eventually, Columbia Junction.
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Although the Dirt Train is not a glamorous job, four Rio Grande tunnel motors can be found working it all the way up through 2002.
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Just east of the yard at Mounds (which is little more than three or four tracks used by UP for temporary storage), the Dirt Train moves along the Sunnyside Sub branch heading towards Columbia Junction.
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