List of Utah railroads

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[edit] Current railroads

[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.

[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
  • 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
  • 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

[edit] References


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See also: List of defunct United States railroads