Deseret Power Railroad

Deseret Power Railroad

The Deseret Power Railroad, formerly known as the Deseret-Western Railway,[1] is a private railroad operating in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado.

It is owned by the Deseret Generation & Transmission Co-operative, and exists to transport coal from the co-operative's Deserado Coal Mine (northeast of Rangely, Colorado; south of Dinosaur, Colorado) to their Bonanza Power Plant (northwest of Bonanza, Utah). The length of the railway is about 35 miles.

The railroad is electrified, using an overhead catenary system to supply power to its locomotives. Motive power includes 7 General Electric E60-2 locomotives, two of which were built for the Deseret, and five which were acquired secondhand from the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México.

The Deseret Power Railroad does not interchange with any other railroad and is completely isolated from the national rail network. It was built in 1984.

References

  1. ^ "Deseret Western Railway - Deseret Power Railroad". utahrails.net. http://utahrails.net/utahrails/deseret-western.php. Retrieved 17 February 2011. 

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Coordinates: 40°21′47″N 109°21′25″W / 40.363°N 109.357°W / 40.363; -109.357


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