The following

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Common freight carriers

* BNSF Railway (BNSF):

trackage rights Railway companies can interact with and control others in many ways. These relationships can be complicated by bankruptcies. Operating Often, when a railroad first opens, it is only a short spur of a main line. The owner of the spur line may ...

over the UP *

Salt Lake City Southern Railroad The Salt Lake City Southern Railroad is a short-line railroad operating between Salt Lake City, and Murray, in Utah, United States. The SL began operating on April 19, 1993, as a RailTex subsidiary. Today the SL is a subsidiary of the Utah R ...

(SL) *

Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway The Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway , nicknamed through most of its history as ''The Saltair Route'', is a short line railroad located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Originally incorporated as a dual passenger and freight railroad, it now provides ...

(SLGW) * Savage Bingham and Garfield Railroad (SBG) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP): Cache Valley, Cane Creek,

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, Comstock, Evanston,

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, Lakeside, Lynndyl,

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, Ogden, Pleasant Valley, Provo, Salt Lake, Shafter,

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, and Sunnyside Subdivisions * Utah Railway (UTAH) * Utah Central Railway (UCRY)

Private freight carriers

* Deseret Western Railway *

Kennecott Utah Copper Kennecott Utah Copper LLC (KUC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah. Kennecott operates the Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the largest open-pit c ...

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK): ''

California Zephyr The ''California Zephyr'' is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno. At , it is Amtrak's longest daily route, and second-longest overall ...

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Heber Valley Railroad The Heber Valley Railroad (HVRX) is a heritage railroad based in Heber City, Utah. It operates passenger excursion trains along a line between Heber City and Vivian Park, which is located in Provo Canyon. The HVRX carries over 110,000 pass ...

* San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad *

Utah Transit Authority The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) is a special service district responsible for providing public transportation throughout the Wasatch Front of Utah, in the United States, which includes the metropolitan areas of Ogden, Park City, Provo, Sal ...

FrontRunner FrontRunner is a commuter rail train operated by the Utah Transit Authority that operates along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah with service from the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center in central Weber County through Davis County, Salt ...

'' & TRAX * Wild Kingdom Train

Defunct railroads

;Private freight carriers * Boston Consolidated Mining Company * Crescent Mining Company * Independent Coal and Coke Company ;Passenger carriers * Alta Scenic Railway ;Electric * Bamberger Railroad (B) * Bamberger Electric Railroad (BE) * Bingham Central Railway * Consolidated Railway and Power Company * East Bench Street Railway * Emigration Canyon Railroad * Great Salt Lake and Hot Springs Railway * Logan Rapid Transit Company * Ogden City Railway * Ogden Electric Railway * Ogden and Hot Springs Railway * Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway (OL&I) * Ogden and Northwestern Railroad * Ogden Rapid Transit Company * Popperton Place and Fort Douglas Rapid Transit Company * Salt Lake City Railroad *

(SLGW) * Salt Lake Light and Traction Company * Salt Lake and Ogden Railway * Salt Lake Rapid Transit Company * Salt Lake Terminal Company *

Salt Lake and Utah Railroad The Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, also known as the Orem Line or Orem Interurban, was an electric railroad which operated between downtown Salt Lake City and Payson, Utah, United States. Construction of the main line was started in 1913 with fin ...

(SL&U, SLU) * Salt Lake and Utah Valley Railway * Utah Idaho Central Railroad (UIC) * Utah Idaho Central Railway (UIC) * Utah Light and Railway Company * Utah Light and Traction Company * Utah Rapid Transit Company * West Side Railway * West Side Rapid Transit Company

Notes

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.net
Retrieved June 9, 2006. * {{US railroad lists

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