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  Utah RY
Utah RY The Utah Railway's main operating headquarters sits west of Martin, Utah on a narrow shelf of Mancos shale in a late steam era atmosphere.
The Utah Railway bought this line on the day of its completion for $246,911, which happens to be the same day it met and completed the main line.
Now that the Utah Railway's main line was operational and the joint trackage was completed over the summit, arrangements were completed so the Denver and Rio Grande could operate the Utah Railway's lines under the 1913 trackage agreement.
www.trainweb.org /utahrails/rr/utah.html   (1602 words)

  
 Utah Railway Cabooses
Utah Railway was organized in 1912 as the Utah Coal Railway, and construction began immediately.
Utah Railway's parent company was United States Fuel Co., a subsidiary of United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Co., which owned extensive coal lands in east central Utah.
Dispositions for Utah Railway cabooses include Utah 58 being destroyed in a wreck on DandRGW in February 1945, and Utah 59 being destroyed in a wreck on DandRGW on November 11, 1941.
utahrails.net /utah-ry/utah-ry-cabooses.php   (812 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia
The Carbon County Railway was completed in 1923 to furnish coal to the new steel mill at Ironton, near Springville in Utah Valley.
Utah Copper, along with Boston Consolidated, and later Ohio Copper Company, soon developed the methods of mining and milling that were needed to make the mining of the low-grade ore profitable.
The Utah Idaho Central railroad began as the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railroad.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/r/RAILROAD.html   (5120 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | FBI probing damage to Carbon railway bridge
Utah Railway has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the sabotage.
On Sunday, a Utah Railway train approached the Gordon Creek Bridge, located nine miles southwest of Helper, Carbon County, at approximately 8:30 a.m.
Train and railway sabotage is a federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and if someone is killed as a result of sabotage, it is a capital crime.
deseretnews.com /dn/view2/1,4382,600153921,00.html   (386 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Utah Railway Company appeals a district court order granting summary judgment against it and in favor of its former employee, William Kinross.
Utah Railway officials went to the homes of employees and discovered Utah Railway ties in Mr.
Utah Railway claims the district court erroneously held a due process violation is grounds for judicial review of an Arbitration Board determination.
laws.lp.findlaw.com /10th/024192.html   (2582 words)

  
 Utah Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Utah Railway (AAR reporting marks UTAH) is a class 3 regional railroad serving the state of Utah.
The Utah Railway Company was incorporated on January 24 1912, with the name of Utah Coal Railway Company, shortened to Utah Railway Company in May of the same year.
Today's Utah Railway operates over 423 miles of track between Grand Junction, Colorado, and Provo, Utah, of which 45 miles are owned, and the remainder operated under agreements with BNSF Railway and Union Pacific.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utah_Railway   (367 words)

  
 UtahRails.net Home Page
Utah Rails — Information about the history of railroading in Utah, along with other information about Utah's history, including railroad-related industrial and business history.
Also included is the history of Utah Railway as part of the coal mines that the company served beginning in 1912.
Utah Coal — "Utah Fuels The West" A web page with narrative history and research notes about Utah's coal mining industry, and the railroads that served it.
utahrails.net   (360 words)

  
 UP: Utah Railway Company UTAH #811
Utah Railway operates freight service on owned track from Mohrland to Helper Terminal, UT (45 miles).
Utah has trackage rights over UP from Grand Junction, CO to Ogden, UT (378 miles).
Utah Railway was a subsidiary of Mueller Industries, Inc. until sold to Genesee and Wyoming, Inc. in August 2002.
www.uprr.com /customers/shortline/lines/utah.shtml   (103 words)

  
 Thistle History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1983 the town of Thistle, Utah, known to many highway travelers as the small community where both the Spanish Fork River and nearby U.S. highways branch, was eliminated by the most costly landslide on record in the United States.
Thistle was located at the triple junction of transportation systems leading south to Sanpete County, east to the coal counties of Carbon and Emery and points beyond, and northwest to the Wasatch Front and Salt Lake City.
When the Utah Railway Company began to construct its own line in 1912, a second set of tracks up Spanish Fork Canyon to Helper, the DandRGW contracted to maintain the tracks for joint use and to maintain the Marysvale line.
www.goldrushexpeditions.com /thistle.htm   (958 words)

  
 kutv.com - FBI Investigating Railroad Fire As Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Utah Railway is offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Last Sunday, a Utah Railway train was forced to stop nine miles southwest of Helper, Utah after spotting the fire on the Gordon Creek Bride.
Train and railway sabotage is a federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison.
kutv.com /local/local_story_218135323.html   (303 words)

  
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Special Collections University of Utah Marriott Library Salt Lake City, Utah 2002 CONTENT AND SCOPE This collection is comprised of the Charles Neal family photos.
Neal was a miner, businessman, and entrepreneur who lived in the Uintah Basin of eastern Utah from the 1920s until his death in 1977.
He and his wife offered the area twenty-four hour telephone service from their home as Essie was one of the main switchboard operators and he built many of the phone lines.
www.lib.utah.edu /spc/photo/P694/P0694.txt   (1332 words)

  
 Utah Garden Railway Society -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The railway is included in the price of admission to the gardens which is currently $3 for adults and $2 for children ages 3 to 12.
Members of the Utah Garden Railway Society (UGRS) have put the building and upkeep of their own garden layouts on hold, to participate in the building of the Thanksgiving Point layout.
When completed, the Thanksgiving Point Railway will continue to be a center point of the UGRS allowing a place for members to meet and volunteer time in the running of the railway.
www.ugrs.org /point/old_point.html   (417 words)

  
 02-4192 -- Kinross v. Uthah Railway Co. -- 03/22/2004
Kinross thereafter sought a Special Board of Adjustment review of whether just cause supported his termination pursuant to § 153 of the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. As the Act provides, the Board included one neutral member, one Union member, and one Utah Railway member.
We believe the Railway Labor Act itself provides for process sufficient to meet constitutional requirements.
In the instant case, the district court improperly operated outside the bounds of these three grounds for judicial review by evaluating the scope of the evidence presented, and thus exceeded its subject matter jurisdiction.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2004/03/02-4192.htm   (2246 words)

  
 railfanning-utah homepage
Since 1869 with the driving of the "golden spike" at Promontory point, Railroading has been a large part of Utah.
Combine the beauty of Utah landscape with all the railroad action, and you are in railfanning paradise.
Here are some of the railways that operate in Utah.
www.trainweb.org /railfanning-utah   (77 words)

  
 Utah Highways Pages - Routes 121 through 140   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From the Utah Railway right-of-way line near Hiawatha easterly to Route 10 near Carbon-Emery County line.
The entire island is owned by the state of Utah and managed as a state park.
The striking features of eastern Utah result from the work of the rivers, past and present, but the deep cuts of the rivers have not left any room to put a road.
members.aol.com /utahhwys/121-140.htm   (3426 words)

  
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The machine-readable finding aid for this collection was created by the Collections Management staff, Utah State Historical Society, with financial assistance from an LSTA grant provided by the Utah State Library Division.
This work may be used for scholarly and other non-commercial use provided that the Utah State Historical Society is acknowledged as the creator and copyright holder.
The Utah Railroads Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
history.utah.gov /FindAids/C00459/c0459.html   (198 words)

  
 Home
The Salt Lake Division of the Denver and Rio Grande Western is a HO model railroad in a 25' x 70' basement room in Bloomington, Indiana.
The railroad follows the Rio Grande from Grand Junction Colorado, to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1953.
Make the short drive to Utah and enjoy mountain railroading like it use to be.
www.utahdivision.com /June2004Utahdivision/Home.html   (124 words)

  
 BCD 03-2
The Utah Railway is a covered employer under the RRA and RUIA (B.A. No. 2746).
Estimates were that GLB spends between 25-50 percent of his time providing managerial services to the Utah Railway.
Utah Railway pays a monthly management fee to Arava, which includes GLB’s salary.
www.rrb.gov /blaw/bcd/bcd03-2.htm   (1036 words)

  
 The Altadena Railraod
Call it what you may---The Los Angeles Terminal Railway, The Altadena Railway, The Pasadena Railway, The San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Utah Railway---the little steam engine line that serviced Altadena in the late 1880's was a product of a boom period and almost as quickly a victim of the bust.
The service was originally organized as the Pasadena Railway Company in 1887 by investors John Woodbury, James Swartout, and opulent Altadenans Andrew McNally and Col. G.
The original plan to have a line run from an Altadena railroad yard to Salt Lake City, Utah was still in the offing, but the land bust dashed all those plans, yet not before the railroad was renamed the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company in 1901.
altadenatowncouncil.org /altadenahistory/alta_rr.html   (641 words)

  
 Geographic Profile
The Utah Colorado Western Railroad Company is a bridge route connecting the Rocky Mountain cities of Denver, Colo., and Salt Lake City and Ogden.
The company utilizes a route which traverses northern Colorado and central Utah’s Uinta Basin, with general lay of the mainline running geographically proximal, but north of the original route proposed by David Moffat for his Denver and Salt Lake.
The un-modeled portion of the railroad from Flanigan, Utah west to Salt Lake and Ogden comprises the Western Region of the UCW.
www.ucwrr.com /profile.htm   (857 words)

  
 Utah Railway Alco RSD4 locomotive 301 at Martin, UT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Utah Railway Alco RSD4 locomotive 301 at Martin, UT Utah Railway Alco RSD4 locomotive 301 at Martin, UT You are at: CarrTracks > Gallery > Colorado and Utah coal trains
The Utah Railway had a roster of seven Alco RSD4s and one RSD5.
The Alcos were built in 1952 and retired in the early 1980s.
www.carrtracks.com /utahm.htm   (118 words)

  
 Utah Railway's New Geep Hits the Road
On Sunday afternoon, Utah Railway Company put their newly acquired KCS GP40 to work.
I caught a few images of the 2700 at the north end of Utah Railway's Provo yard.
The KCS 2700 was built new by EMD for the Western Pacific, and is scheduled to be renumbered to the UR 3002.
www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?1,1260708   (280 words)

  
 DRGW.Net : Soldier Summit browse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
By 1890, the line was converted to standard gauge as part of the mass conversion of the Rio Grande Western, the DandRGW Railway's successor.
However, the seven miles of 4% grade on the west side between Tucker and the Summit continued to be a significant bottleneck.
The agreement provided that the Utah Rwy would construct and own one main from Provo to Thistle, and the Grande would double-track the rest of the segment between Thistle and Utah Railway Junction (just outside Helper).
www.drgw.net /info/index.php?n=Main.SoldierSummit   (832 words)

  
 Utah News Clips - Official Internet Site
"With Utah News Clips, we're able to monitor the effectiveness of our communication efforts in a timely manner.
The DVDs they produce for us are regularly shown to a number of audiences including physicians, patients, employees and our management team.
Utah News Clips always responds quickly when last night's news has to be on my desk the next day."
www.utahnewsclips.com   (115 words)

  
 Price | Utah.com
Price is located east of the main mountain range which divides the state of Utah, approximately 70 miles from the main population center along the Wasatch Front (Provo, Salt Lake City, and Ogden).
Price, the principal city of the Carbon County area, along with Helper and Wellington, comprise a population center of 15,800, in a county of 21,000 and a trade and labor market area of 33,000.
The College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum includes many examples of dinosaur artifacts found in the area and also ancient human artifacts of the early inhabitants.
www.utah.com /cities/price.htm   (894 words)

  
 Genesee & Wyoming
Utah Railway Company (URC), incorporated in January 1912 and headquartered in its historic Martin (Helper, Utah) office building, is an efficiently run, safe and strongly customer-focused railroad, built on 90 years of service excellence.
Customer service provided by highly skilled and dedicated employees has been the cornerstone of Utah Railway's success over the years.
URC has connections with BNSF and UP at Provo and Utah Railway Junction, as well as at Grand Junction, Colorado.
www.gwrr.com /default.cfm?action=rail§ion=3B15a   (312 words)

  
 Utah Railway Attractions
SLC Rio Grande Depot also houses the Utah Historical Society which is a great resource to get old Utah Railway and Trolley photos.
S and S Shortline- Farmington Utah, Narrow Gauge Attraction, They operate a 7.5 and 24 inch gauge railway with several thousand feet of track and are restoring an antique San Francisco Cable Car.
Garden railways focus on a fun aspect of the rail hobby of outdoor rail exhibits.
www.sugarhousetrolley.org /utahrr.html   (584 words)

  
 RailImages.com :: David Fowers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
These are photos taken from a visit to Utah in June/July 2005.
DRGW #5390 and 5371 idling at Helper Yard, Utah.
Utah Railway #5005 in new paint scheme (one of a kind), Martin, Utah, June 2005
www.railimages.com /gallery/davidfowers   (216 words)

  
 Utah Railroad SD40s Martin Utah photo 104775 © John S Murray
Utah Railroad SD40s Martin Utah photo 104775 © John S Murray
No part of this website may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording by an information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of John S. Murray.
Utah Railway SD40s 9011, 9009, 9010 and 9001 -  Martin, Utah  104775
www.homestead.com /johnsmurrayphotography/photo104775.html   (92 words)

  
 Utah Railway engineers, conductors ratify BLET contract
Utah Railway Co. workers recently ratified a five-year contract with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) division of the Teamsters Rail Conference.
The BLET organized the short line’s trainmen in February 2003.
A Genesee & Wyoming Inc. subsidiary, the 276-mile Utah Railway serves as a switching railroad for BNSF Railway Co. in Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden, Utah.
www.progressiverailroading.com /freightnews/article.asp?id=7282   (131 words)

  
 Lagoon Amusement Park | Utah.com
Live entertainment shows, Utah's historic Pioneer Village and Lagoon A Beach Waterpark are all included with your All-Day Passport.
Originally built in 1921, and restored after a fire in 1953, the white roller coaster has a well-deserved place in Utah history.
Many of the buildings were actually dismantled and rebuilt for pioneer Village including the log schoolhouse, the Kaysville, Utah railway station and the Maw home at the village entrance.
www.utah.com /amusement/lagoon.htm   (418 words)

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