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Contents 1 Current railroads 1.1 Tourist and museum railroads 2 Defunct railroads 2.1 Standard Gauge Common Carriers 2.2 Standard Gauge Industrial and Private Railroads 2.3 Narrow Gauge Railroads 2.3.1 Narrow Gauge Common Carrier 2.3.2 Narrow Gauge Mining 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Current railroads

• Amtrak (AMTK)
  • California Zephyr
• BNSF Railway (BNSF)
• Salt Lake City Southern Railroad (SL)
• Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway (SLGW)
• Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
• Utah Central Railway (UCRY)
• Utah Railway (UTAH)
• Deseret-Western Railway (DWR) a private 35-mile mining railway

[edit] Tourist and museum railroads

These active railroads are known by several names including tourist railroad, historic railroad, museum railroad and heritage railway. These railroads frequently operated excursion trains.

• Heber Valley Railroad

[edit] Defunct railroads

[edit] Standard Gauge Common Carriers

• Bamberger Railroad
  • Bamberger Electric Railroad
    • Salt Lake and Odgen Railway
      • Great Salt Lake and Ogden Hot Springs Railway
• Central Pacific Railroad leased to SP in 1885, merged to SP in 1959
• Deep Creek Railroad
• Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW) later SP
  • Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (DRG) later DRGW
    • Castle Valley Railway
    • Copper Belt Railroad (copper mine)
    • Kenilworth and Helper Railroad leased to DRG
    • Sevier Railway
    • Tintic Range Railway
    • Utah Eastern Railway
  • Rio Grande Western Railway (NG and SG)
    • Carbon County Railway (of 1900)
    • Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway
    • Goshen Valley Railroad
    • State Line and Denver Railway
• Emigration Canyon Railway (quarry)
• Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad controlled by UP in 1921, leased to UP in 1936, merged to UP in 1987
  • San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad name change to LA&SL in 1916
    • Los Angeles Terminal Railway Company
    • all OSL lines south of Salt Lake City, to SP,LA&SL in 1903
• Ogden Rapid Transit Company
  • Odgen and Northwestern Railroad
    • Ogden and Utah Hot Springs Railway
      • Odgen and Hot Springs Railway
• Oregon Short Line Railroad later UP (NG & SG)
  • Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway
    • Idaho Central Railway
    • Salt Lake and Western Railway (of Utah)
    • Ogden and Syracuse Railway
    • Oregon Short Line Railway
    • Utah Central Railway
      • Utah Southern Railroad Extension
      • Utah Southern Railroad
      • Utah Central Rail Road
    • Utah and Nevada Railway
  • New East Tintic Railway of 1896, to OSL in 1900
  • Utah and Pacific Railroad of 1898, to OSL in 1901
• Salt Lake and Alta Railroad
• Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railway later SLGW
  • Saltair Railway
• Salt Lake and Utah Railroad
• Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) later UP
• Tooele Valley Railway
• Utah and Northern Railway
• Utah Idaho Central Railroad
  • Utah Idaho Central Railway
    • Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway
      • Logan Rapid Transit
      • Ogden Rapid Transit
• Utah Coal Railway to Utah Railway in 1912
• Utah Central Railway
  • Utah Southern Railroad
    • Utah Southern Railroad Extension
• Western Pacific Railroad (WP) later UP

[edit] Standard Gauge Industrial and Private Railroads

• Ballard and Thompson Railroad
• Bingham and Garfield Railway (copper mine)
• Boston Consolidated Mining Company (mine)
• Carbon County Railway (of 1922) (coal mine)
• Castle Valley Railroad (coal mine)
• Newhouse, Copper Gulch and Sevier Lake Railroad (mine)
• St. John and Ophir Railroad
• Salt Lake and Mercur Railroad (mine)
• Southern Utah Railroad
• Utah Copper

[edit] Narrow Gauge Railroads

[edit] Narrow Gauge Common Carrier

• Denver and Rio Grande Railroad later DRGW
  • San Pete Valley Railway
  • Utah Central Railroad
    • Utah Central Railway of 1890
      • California Short Line Railway
• Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway (of 1881) later RGW
  • Little Cottonwood Transportation Company (of 1882)
  • Utah and Pleasant Valley Railway
  • Wasatch and Jordan Valley Railroad
  • Bingham Canyon and Camp Floyd Rail Road (mine)
• Echo and Park City Railway later UP
  • Summit County Railroad
• Utah Eastern Rail Road
  • Coalville and Echo Railway
• Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway
  • Utah and Northern Railway
    • Utah Northern Railroad
• Uintah Railway
• Utah Central Railway
  • Salt Lake and Eastern Railway
  • Salt Lake and Fort Douglas Railway
  • Utah Western Railway
• Utah and Nevada Railway
  • Utah Western Railway
    • Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad
      • Summit County Railroad

[edit] Narrow Gauge Mining

• American Fork Railroad (42" gauge)
• Bingham Canyon and Camp Floyd Rail Road (mine) later DRGW
• Boston Consolidated Mining Company (mine)
• Eureka Hill Railroad
• Independent Coal and Coke Company (42" gauge)
• Little Cottonwood Transportation Company (of 1916)
• Tintic Standard Mining Company
• Utah Iron Ore Corp.

[edit] See also

• List of United States railroads

[edit] References

• Association of American Railroads (2003), Railroad Service in Utah (PDF). Retrieved May 11, 2005.
• UtahRails.net Retrieved March 10, 2006.
  • List of Utah Railroads at UtahRails.net Retrieved June 9, 2006.
  • Utah Railroads Index page at UtahRails.netRetrieved June 9, 2006.

List of United States railroads by political division
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District of Columbia · Puerto Rico
See also: List of defunct United States railroads