- Utah Railway
Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Utah Railway
marks=UTAH
locale=Utah andColorado
start_year=1912
end_year=present
old_gauge=
hq_city=Provo, Utah The Utah Railway reporting mark|UTAH is aclass III railroad operating inUtah andColorado .History
The Utah Railway Company was incorporated on January 24, 1912, with the name of Utah Coal Railway, shortened to Utah Railway in May of the same year. It was founded to haul coal from the company's mines to
Provo, Utah , in reaction to company disappointment in the service and route of the existingDenver and Rio Grande Railroad nearby. The company was one of the earliest coal hauling railroads to employdiesel locomotives , and was early to adopt automation technologies, including the use offlashing rear end device s instead ofcaboose s. Parent companyMueller Industries , a manufacturer of copper products, sold the Utah Railway in 2002 toGenesee and Wyoming , a railroadholding company .Current operations
Today's Utah Railway operates over 423 miles of track between
Grand Junction ,Colorado , andProvo ,Utah , of which 45 miles are owned, and the remainder operated under agreements withBNSF Railway andUnion Pacific . The company still hauls a significant amount of coal; of the 90,000 carloads hauled each year, over two thirds are coal. The Utah Railway also owns a subsidiary railroad, theSalt Lake City Southern Railroad , serving over 30 customers on over 25 miles of track betweenSalt Lake City andDraper , Utah.Logo
From earliest times, the symbol of the Utah Railway Company has been the
beehive , which is also the Utah state symbol. Normally, GWI alters the corporate logos of its acquisitions to match the parent company's logo, but in a nod to tradition, the beehive was retained within a logo similar to the parent company's design.References
* [http://gwrr.com/ Genesee & Wyoming corporate website]
External links
* [http://gwrr.com/default.cfm?action=rail§ion=3B15a Utah Railway official site (GWI)]
* [http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/carbon/railroad.html Utah Railway history page]
* [http://www.trainweb.org/utahrails/rr/utah.html Trainweb's Utah Railway]
* [http://utahrails.net/utah-ry/utah-ry-index.php UtahRails.net Utah Railway page]
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