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Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen at Echo, 5-6-23.
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Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen at Echo, 5-6-23.

  • In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the line's southern end is spectacular with red rock canyons and deep cuts, along with the 7050-foot Bootlegger Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in Utah. The once-a-week "Potash Local" is the only train that regularly sees the rails this far South on the branch. Typically, the train runs on Friday mornings out of Grand Junction, Colorado, under the symbol LDG51B. After working Intrepid Potash the train is seen heading back East with 28 loads running under towering red rock sweeping around the curve at Corona Arch trail head, 5-5-23.
  • Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Global 2 Chicago intermodal train ZSCG2-06 is seen passing through the small Hamlet of Echo, approaching Echo Canyon, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Global 2 Chicago intermodal train ZSCG2-06 is seen passing through Echo Canyon on the Evanston Sub. Steamboat Rock is towering high above the train, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Global 2 Chicago intermodal train ZSCG2-06 is seen climbing the Wasatch Grade at Castle Rock, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Global 2 Chicago intermodal train ZSCG2-06 is seen climbing the Wasatch Grade at Castle Rock, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific train GSTUCT-03 (Pixley, California to Carlton, Nebraska) is seen climbing out of Echo Canyon at Emory. The PSR monster is symboled as a grain train, the empty grain cars are on the rear. The train was running 1x1x1 for power, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific train GSTUCT-03 (Pixley, California to Carlton, Nebraska) is seen approaching the summit of the Wasatch grade and the ghost town known as Wahsatch. The PSR monster is symboled as a grain train, the empty grain cars are on the rear. The train was running 1x1x1 for power, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen approaching Echo, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen at Echo, 5-6-23.
  • Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen rolling through Echo Canyon during a perfectly timed sun hole, 5-6-23.
  • The last of four trains we shot this morning was GSPXTC-04, a Pixley California to Tuscola, Illinois empty grain train. The train is snaking through Echo Canyon and passing Hanging Rock. This large boulder slid down the hill in 1948 and stopped just short of the right of way. Since it was not impeding the line, Union Pacific chose to leave it and it has remained in place ever since, 5-6-23.
  • A Utah Railway local is seen at Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City, 5-7-23.
  • The rear DPU pushes a coal train West out of the North Yard at Salt Lake City, 5-7-23.
  • Union Pacific 1983, the Western Pacific heritage unit is seen as the rear DPU on a coal train at Roper Yard in Salt Lake City, 5-8-23.
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