The morning empty descends the 2.2% grade into Mormon Gap (the steepest grade on the line) as they head back to the Deserado Mine loadout while thunderstorms build to the west.
The morning empty returns to the Deserado Mine loadout. Unfortunately for us, there would be no afternoon train today as the longwall was having problems.
Having finally broken free of the storms covering the lower Wasatch Mountains, the joint UP/URY empty coal train pops into the sun just before taking the switch onto the Castle Valley Spur.
Running trackage it more than likely saw when new and hauling coal trains, former SP 245 leads an empty oil train for Savage's Price River Terminal at Wash, UT.
Just a few miles north of Intrepid Potash's mine at aptly-named Potash, the Cane Creek Sub begins a 1.2% grade for northbound trains. With no load from the mine this day, the Potash Local makes e... (more)
The Cane Creek Sub may not be known for its traffic density, but it is certainly known for it's scenery. The Sunday-only "Potash Local" slowly works it's way through one of the cuts jus... (more)
The "Potash Local" make their Sunday run towards the Cane Creek Sub at Brendel under the impressive Book Cliffs that parallel the former Rio Grande mainline in eastern Utah.
Three BNSF paint schemes on two different SD70 platforms roll an Roberts Bank, BC export coal train westbound.
A trio of GrainCorp's mozzies with the aboriginal artwork, head southeast with a loaded train from Lake Cargelligo as the sun sets.
Making for a lovely amount of noise, an inline 6-251B powered ALCO/Goodwin DL531 leads a 16-645E3 EMD/Clyde GT26C up the (compensated) 1-in-53 (1.89%) grade with a loaded Manildra Shunt.
An empty, Qube operated, Louis Dreyfus containerized grain train passes the old semaphore that protects the mothballed lines to Kandos.
Powered by Whitehaven Coal's trio of GT46's, empties for the Gunnedah basin head north through the undulations between Werris Creek and Quipolly.
The Monongahela Heritage unit, my favorite of them all, leads 108 loaded oil cans westbound along BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision.
"The Ghan" luxury passenger train rolls gingerly across the bridge at Yorkeys Crossing as the sun sets on their first day heading towards Darwin as the Flinders Ranges towers above.
Two of the 4 NR's painted for the Indian Pacific passenger train, including the one-off yellow one, leads the 4MP5 westbound through Nantawarra.
