| By: | Rodney J. Sorensen |
| Dates: | 3/25/2006 - 12/31/2006 |
| Album Info: | Motive power found in and on the Crane Creek Branch of the Union Pacific. This little branch is served out of Grand Junction, Colorado on a weekly schedule at this time, but is subject to change. This is one of the most beautiful branch lines in the whole of the intermountain west, deep canyons and river settings. The line extends from Brendel, Utah on the north to Potash, Utah on the south, about 50 miles in all and follows the Colorado River along part of the inner canyon section near Moab, Utah. As far as I can tell Potash is the only customer at present, hence the weekly run. But in days past, during the uranium boom of the late '50's and early '60's a LOT of equipment and such were in demand. Nowadays . . . the Government is going to use a clean up Super Fund to remove all of the tailings that glow in the dark, just outside of Moab, proper. It is not on the travel maps, lol, but it is that huge pile of glowing rocks with the nice sprinkler system on top, just as you enter town (Moab) from the north. They are going to haul the whole mess out into the dessert, (wonder where it is now?) and cover it up with top soil. Including the engines and cars used to move same. This stuff is, how do they say . . . HOT! Well like I said it glows in the dark at night. The Union Pacific is fixing up the track and such for the massive move as we speak. Anyone need a glow in the dark rock night light, cheep? ""Background Noise: Click, Click, Click, Click"" The sound of a dozen Geiger Counters going off the scale . . . |
