Utah/Railroads

Kudos to the wikipedia.org page List of Utah railroads which does a fine job of text descriptions, yet doesn't link to relevant OSM data relations via BrowseRelation entries, as many OSM wiki readers have gotten used to. You might choose that text-oriented page now and if that's "good enough," fine. However, if you need OSM data now being improved and built as table links here, some of that is done and some of that is yet to complete. (From OSM's 2007 TIGER rail data import, both rail data and relations in OSM are being improved and are now being better documented in this wiki). An Overpass Turbo link might be useful, try this for passenger train routes. OSM sometimes does link to wikipedia.org pages like that one, if OSM (and/or this wiki) has less data than wikipedia.org text descriptions.

Due to recent wiki and associated software upgrades, the map details are not-quite-correct: please select "Transport Map" from the upper-right "layers stack" icon to see the railway routes as part of the USA's national-scale rail infrastructure. This is a "live" slippy map; it can be panned and zoomed.

Introduction

This is an alpha version of Utah/Railroads.

Editing Railroads starting from TIGER data

Like highways, railroad tracks have been imported from TIGER data and they share the same problems like unconnected segments, wrong tagging, missing bridges and railroad crossings and positions that are frequently off quite a lot. So a review is necessary as it is for highways. Please read WikiProject_United_States_railways#Editing_Railroads_starting_from_TIGER_data. The segments of a railway line with similar tagging (especially name=* and usage=*) should be collected into a route=railway relation.

Active lines

Lines that see regular rail traffic whether freight, passenger, industrial, military, private, tourism, whatever. If they are active, they go here. If they are not, they are placed into the Disused or Abandoned sections below.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF)

BNSF owns no rail in Utah per se but does enjoy trackage rights on UP's Green River, parts of Provo and Shafter Subdivisions (all characterized in OSM as "mainline" rail with usage=main). Correct denotation is often owner=UP + operator=BNSF or operator=UP;BNSF. These trackage rights extents may not be exactly correct; corrections/updates are appreciated.

Union Pacific Railroad (UP)

A Class I major railroad in the USA, and the dominant freight rail owner in Utah. These tables are under construction and remain incomplete though do allow a rough version of Utah's rail network to be be visualized (for example, using OpenRailwayMap or ORM). OSM is improving rail in Utah!

Main

Subdivision	Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Caliente Subdivision	UP	7415677 7415677	Milford - Lund - Zane - Modena - Nevada line - Caliente, Nevada - Moapa, Nevada - Las Vegas, Nevada	Done
Evanston Subdivision	UP	7429637 7429637	Ogden - Morgan - Echo Dam - Wyoming line - Evanston, Wyoming - Green River, Wyoming	Partially TIGER reviewed	Has some confused naming conventions between tracks "Main 1" and "Main 2"
Green River Subdivision	UP	1419636 1419636	Helper - Price - Wellington - Green River - Colorado line - Grand Junction, Colorado	Appears to be fully TIGER reviewed
Lakeside Subdivision	UP	8726290 8726290	Lucin (Box Elder County) - Nevada Line - Montello, Nevada, - Wells, Nevada (Shafter Subdivision)	Partially TIGER reviewed
Lucin Cutoff	UP	8725733 8725733	Ogden - Great Salt Lake - Lucin (Box Elder County)	Partially TIGER reviewed
Lynndyl Subdivision	UP	7525048 7525048	Salt Lake City (near north Temple Bridge) Garfield Jct. - Tooele - Milford	Partially TIGER reviewed
Ogden Subdivision	UP	5407633 5407633	Ogden - Brigham City - Cache Jct. (near Newton) - Idaho line - McCammon, Idaho	Appears to be fully TIGER reviewed
Provo Subdivision	UP	1518319 1518319	Salt Lake City - Provo - Helper	Appears to be fully TIGER reviewed	BNSF and UTAH both have trackage rights; is seems this needs some untangling with FrontRunner in naming, owner/operator and trackage included in both relations
Salt Lake Subdivision	UP	8727345 8727345	Ogden - Clearfield - Farmington - Salt Lake City (near north Temple Bridge, then to Lynndyl Subdivision)	About halfway TIGER reviewed	Parallel in many places, but different from tracks which support FrontRunner passenger=suburban route=trains
Shafter Subdivision	UP	4766672 4766672	Salt Lake City - Lago - Delle - Wendover/Nevada line - Shafter, Nevada - Wells, Nevada - Elko, Nevada	Appears to be fully TIGER reviewed

Branch

Under construction, benefits from further completion. More work which remains to do: corrections, spurs and historical (disused, abandoned, razed) details regarding the areas of Cache Valley, Comstock and Pleasant Valley Branches/Spurs, in addition to similar work across the state (maybe UP-owned/operated, maybe not). If active, it is not known which are Branch or Industrial. If inactive, not much is currently known/entered in OSM beyond what was imported from TIGER and improvements made since then.

Subdivision	Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Cane Creek Branch	UP	1518320 1518320	Green River Subdivision near Crescent Flat - near Moab - Potash	Partially TIGER Reviewed
Cedar City Branch	UP	8713521 8713521	Cedar City - Lund	Done
Malad Branch	UP	8716054 8716054	Corinne - Tremonton - Idaho line - Malad, Idaho	Partially TIGER Reviewed
Sharp Subdivision	UP	8717239 8717239	Springville - Spanish Fork - Payson - Nephi - Lynndyl	Appears completed	Needs work untangling where it branches off of Lynndyl
Sunnyside Subdivision	UP	1518318 1518318	Green River Subdivision - Sunnyside	Done

Industrial

Under construction. There are likely a great many minor spurs yet to enter here.

Subdivision	Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Comstock Subdivision	UP	8726484 8726484	West of Cedar City, off of UP's Cedar City Branch	No TIGER tags	Believed to be UP-owned. Name comes from US DOT bts.gov-derived data.
Delta Intermountain Power Spur	UP	The single way is entered	North of Delta, off of UP's Lynndyl Subdivision	No TIGER tags	Not sure if this is UP-owned/operated or private rail (via STB waiver). Name is a guess.
US Magnesium	UP	8725611 8725611	Delle Siding on UP's Shafter Subdivision, 11.5 miles north to USM's industrial zone at SW edge of Great Salt Lake	No TIGER tags	Not sure if this is UP-owned/operated or private rail (via STB waiver, US Magnesium, however). Name is a guess.

Short Lines (Branch, Industrial or Freight, Private)

Under construction/incomplete. Updates/corrections are welcome.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GNWR)

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. is a "railroad holding company" which owns Utah Railway, which in turn owns Salt Lake City Southern Railroad as a subsidiary.

Utah Railway (UTAH)

Owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. With trackage rights, UTAH spans 378 miles (608 km) from Ogden, Utah, to Grand Junction, Colorado. It interchanges with BNSF and Union Pacific at both of those cities, hauling coal, aggregates, brick and cement, building materials, chemicals and petroleum products. A fuller extent of trackage rights is being investigated.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Utah Railway's Mohrland Branch	8713976 8713976	Helper (Martin) - Mohrland	Partially TIGER reviewed	This branch (as entered) is 41.4 km long

Salt Lake City Southern Railroad (SL)

Owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. A 25-mile (40 km) short-line railroad operates between Salt Lake City and Murray. However, US DOT bts.gov data indicate these are owned by Utah Transit Authority for TRAX Red and Blue light_rail between these cities, with SL only having trackage rights, so it isn't clear how SL (and in turn, GNWR) enters the picture (nighttime freight runs?) A more clear extent of trackage rights is being investigated, though if you have knowledge, please share it here and/or in the map with proper owner=* and operator=* tags.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
TRAX Blue and Red Light Rail Lines	Relation not defined yet	Salt Lake City - Murray	Partially TIGER reviewed	Just getting started untangling all of this

(End of Genesee & Wyoming section).

Deseret Power Railroad (DPRW)

This is a private Class III railroad, not a common carrier. (Used to transport coal from mine to power plant).

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Deseret Power Railroad	8596380 8596380	Moffat & Rio Blanco Counties (Deserado Mine) - Colorado Line - Bonanza Power Plant, Utah	Partial	Fully electrified at 50 kV 60 Hz AC via overhead catenary. There are no at-grade crossings.

Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway (SLGW)

A short line railroad located in Salt Lake City, providing freight-only railcar switching services to industries along its 16 miles (26 km) of track.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
SLGW; no known Line name	8718184 8718184	Salt Lake City	No TIGER tags	Some of the segments are questionable inclusions and some are tagged branch, some tagged industrial; rough
Garfield Branch	8833024 8833024	Salt Lake City	Northern 2/3 is Reviewed, southern 1/3 is not	Tagged industrial; little is known, not sure if this is correct

Utah Central Railway (UCRY)

A short line railroad serving Ogden and surrounding areas interchanging with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway trains running over UP via trackage rights.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
UCRY; no known Line name	Relation not defined yet	Ogden	Unknown

Passenger trains

Tracks and stations used for passenger train routes are correctly collected into route=train relations.

Amtrak (passenger=national) trains serving Utah (AMTK)

Amtrak® operates a rail network of intercity passenger=national trains in the contiguous United States, serving more than 500 destinations in 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces on more than 21,400 miles of routes. In Utah, Amtrak serves Salt Lake City, Provo, Helper and Green River.

Route name	Trains (ref=*)	Passenger Service	type=route_master	type=route	Status and Notes
California Zephyr℠	5, 6	national	905830 905830	EMY-CHI 8440301 8440301 CHI-EMY 8440320 8440320	EMY-CHI CHI-EMY Mostly complete; public_transport v2. 2438 miles (Chicago - Emeryville, California). Underlying infrastructure route=railway relations look correct, though relation is very large. Platforms, amenities around them need improvement.

Regional (passenger=regional) trains (future RMRA?)

Presently, no "regional rail" exists in Utah (middle-distances of 160 km to 1400 km; shorter than passenger=national rail but longer than passenger=suburban "commuter" trains, passenger=urban light-rail and passenger=local trams). Sometimes called "intercity." See RMRA regarding longer-term studies completed and plans (some out to 2044) for high-speed regional rail in the Front Range of Colorado, with extensions to neighboring Wyoming and New Mexico. How or if this might affect Utah, UTA or FrontRunner is unknown at this time (2022).

FrontRunner (passenger=suburban) trains (UTAX)

Utah Transit Authority's "commuter" rail trains , 89 miles (143 km) long, serving the Wasach Front.

Service Line	Route	Trains	Master Relation	Status
FrontRunner	Train	750	8718106 8718106	Rough public_transport v2 route_master relation, needs "double-check review." Is it Pleasant View -> Provo & Provo -> Pleasant View or Ogden -> Provo & Provo -> Ogden?

On all UTAX railway=* (which are dual-tracked for each direction of train travel), check ways for correct direction. This helps public_transport=stop_position to be accurately tagged at well-located at stations/stops.

TRAX (passenger=urban) trains (UTAX)

Utah Transit Authority's light rail trains . TRAX consists of three passenger=urban lines, named Blue, Red and Green. Routes should be tagged route=light_rail, even as these are street-running in dense Downtown and urban areas rather than always in their own dedicated right-of-way. These are under construction, though largely complete, in OSM.

Service Line	Route	Trains	Master Relation	Status
TRAX Blue Line	Light Rail	701	6073253 6073253	Incomplete public_transport v2; needs platforms and public_transport=stop_positions "added in the middle" to underlying v1 relations. Please review: assure correct tracks, track direction, platforms and complete and proper tagging on all of these.
TRAX Red Line	Light Rail	703	4789075 4789075	Incomplete public_transport v2; needs platforms and public_transport=stop_positions "added in the middle" to underlying v1 relations. Please review: assure correct tracks, track direction, platforms and complete and proper tagging on all of these.
TRAX Green Line	Light Rail	704	6073252 6073252	Early/rough v2 beginning to emerge as "largely correct." Needs a "double-check review:" assure correct tracks, track direction, platforms and complete and proper tagging on all of these. Direction of travel of trains is unknown whether correct, so perhaps correct direction of train travel is next to check; directionality on light_rail ways, reverse any that don't travel in a correct direction.†

†When direction is correct, matching train direction travel, this may have to do with how USA "gets away with" no route=tracks relations (as are found in Germany).

S-Line Streetcar (passenger=local) trains (UTAX)

Utah Transit Authority's Salt Lake City tram .

Service Line	Route	Trams	Master Relation	Status
S-Line	Tram	720	8725393 8725393	Rough public_transport v2; needs "double-check review." An extension is emerging through Sugar House via 1100 East to 1700 South, better serving Westminster College.

See also Utah/Transit for UTA Bus routes (a substantially populated bus route table, not included in this rail wiki).

Tourism, museum, heritage and historic (passenger=local) trains

Under construction. Two tables, one for route=train relations, one for route=railway relations (where underlying railway=rail elements are tagged usage=tourism). May in the future expand to include miniature rail found in suburban parks, amusement park rail, etc. Examples include Thunder Junction Railroad in St. George and Zoofari Express at Hogle Zoo.

Heber Valley Railroad (HVRX)

A 16 mile (26 km) heritage railroad based in Heber City operating popular passenger excursion trains along a line between Heber City and Vivian Park, Soldier Hollow has a small station. It appears that part of the Provo River Parkway (mixed-use bike/ped railtrail) uses previous D&RGW right of way south of the end of the HVRX line at Vivian Park.

Section under expansion, other train routes may be discovered and added/restructured in this wiki.

Service Line	Reporting Marks	Route	Relation	Status
Deer Creek Express	HBVR	Train	8725238 8725238	This is a v1 route. There are numerous other route=train relations (Provo Canyon Limited, Lakeside Limited...) that might be added as new rows in this table

Railway Name	Reporting Marks	Route	Relation	Status
Heber Valley Railroad	HBVR	Railway	8725152 8725152	The route=railway relation is in this table; about 50% TIGER reviewed by distance

Disused lines

Lines that don't have regular traffic but with all infrastructure in place. Tracks are tagged railway=disused. Try this Utah-specific Overpass Turbo query. Needs work; incomplete.

Name	Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Draper Line	UP	8714330 8714330	Draper - Eagle Summit area - American Fork - Pleasant Grove - Orem Central	Needs TIGER Review	Seems to be associated with Porter Rockwell (rail)Trail. At the south end of the TRAX Blue Line. How much is disused, how much is active? Can all segments which are included be named "Draper Line" and are owner and operator tags correct? Where does UTA ownership begin and end? Should these be broken into two separate relations?
Manti Branch	D&RGW	8714330 8714330	SW of Manti - Eastern edge of Gunnison Reservoir north of Sterling	Done	A central portion of this is tagged highway=footway, other segments are tagged highway=unclassified, an odd combination with railway=disused. Might the highway portions actually be railway=abandoned instead, in which case we move this to the Abandoned section?
Sunnyside Subdivision (disused)	UP	8715758 8715758	Sunnyside	Done
Tooele Army Depot Spur (disused)	UP	The single way is entered	Tooele Army Depot, South Area	Needs TIGER Review	This appears in aerial/satellite imagery as "beyond" disused (as in abandoned / tracks removed). If it were used, it would get usage=military, but as it isn't, it won't. Additional tagging like siding / yard may be correct if tracks still actually exist. Move to Abandoned section?

Abandoned lines

Former railroad lines, whether still visible on the ground or not. Ways are tagged railway=abandoned, or if they have been completely built over or reclaimed as farmland with no trace, railway=razed. Try this Utah-specific Overpass Turbo query. Needs work; incomplete.

Name and/or operator	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Marysvale Branch	D&RGW	4227191 4227191	Elsinore - Joseph - Belknap	No TIGER tags	Appears to be associated with Candy Mountain Express Bike Trail, a railtrail on D&RGW ROW. The relation is the railtrail, not the entirety of the rail ROW.
Old Railroad Grade	SP	8715949 8715949	Corinne (near Brigham City) - Northern edge of Great Salt Lake - Lucin airport	No TIGER tags	Associated with some railway=preserved at Golden Spike National Monument.
Unnamed	D&RGW	The single way is entered	On Hurricane Mesa	No TIGER tags	Entered in 2007, very little is known. Should this be tagged railway=abandoned?
Unnamed	D&RGW	The single way is entered	Near Sigurd in Sevier County	No TIGER tags	Entered in 2007, very little is known. Should this be tagged railway=abandoned?

Railtrails

A railtrail uses a former railroad right-of-way (ROW) for equestrian, bicycle or hiking paths, preserving the ROW for possible future re-use as a railway while providing a useful service in the meantime. These are often tagged highway=cycleway or highway=footway depending on whether they prefer or allow bicycle or pedestrian traffic. It is OK to tag both railway=abandoned and highway=cycleway if it is the case that an abandoned railway became a railtrail (for bicycle use, for example). Where a (multi-use) pathway is designated for pedestrians but also allows bicycles, tag highway=footway and bicycle=yes.

Clearly, this is simply an early stub table as few railtrails are known in Utah. Needs work; incomplete.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Candy Mountain Express Bike Trail	4227191 4227191	Elsinore - Joseph - Belknap	No TIGER tags	A regional cycleway, network=rcn CME
Porter Rockwell Trail	Relation not defined yet	Draper - Eagle Summit area	No TIGER tags	A cycleway at the south end of the TRAX Blue Line
Provo River Parkway	Relation not defined yet	Provo River	Unknown	Mixed bike/ped
Union Pacific Rail Trail	8725559 8725559	Park City - Coalville - Echo	Unknown	A designated mountain bike (largely unpaved, some segments are paved) trail, though pedestrians have access, so also tagged foot=yes

Yards

It would be very kind for more OSM volunteers to continue to build up this statewide "Yards" table (stub) with status on every single Utah rail yard. It is incomplete as there are many rail yards in Utah.

Name	Railroad	Area	Subdivision(s) Served	TIGER Review	Status
Salt Lake City UP Yard	Union Pacific	Salt Lake City	Provo, Shafter?	Unknown	Big yard! How does this look?