Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail
Chad and Ria are getting in shape for the new year by snow shoeing on the historic Union Pacific Rail Trail in Park City. We show you the beauties to be found along the way with some history of the trail.
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Union Pacific Rail Trail (Park City, UT) to East Service Road (Wyoming) via Coalville, Evanston
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Union Pacific Rail Trail (Utah) to East Service Road (Uinta County, Wyoming)
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Union Pacific Historic Rail Trail Hall of Fame Ceremony
Utah's Union Pacific Historic Rail Trail is 30 miles long, 100 feet wide, and part of the inaugural class of the Rails to Trails Conservancy's Hall of Fame.
Union Pacific Rail Trail - Snow-Kiting - Jeep Rocker Panel Installation - Assembling UTVs
Union Pacific Rail Trail - Snow-Kiting - Jeep Rocker Panel Installation - Assembling UTVs
Season 17 Episode 18
This week on AYL we get in shape on the Union Pacific Tail Trail, go snow-kiting, install some new rocker panels on our jeep, and find out what it takes to assemble a new UTV.
:42 - Chad and Ria are getting in shape for the new year by snow shoeing on the historic Union Pacific Rail Trail in Park City. We show you the beauties to be found along the way with some history of the trail.
4:39 - We join people who are experiencing snow-kiting for the first time. This is an experience that you will want to your family to try.
10:35 - Scott is installing some new rocker panels on a Jeep. We walk you through the whole process and explain why these are an important upgrade to have.
20:05 - We head to Weller Recreation to find out what it takes to get UTVs road ready. We walk through a day of Joe who is their Assembler.
26:55 - Take a sneak peek at next weeks show.
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Biking Historic Rail Trail Park City Utah
This video features biking on paved (some unpaved) portion of historic rail trail between Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard in Park City, Utah.
Exploring the Central Pacific Railroad Route to the Summit
We explore six historic stops of the Central Pacific Railroad as the CPRR constructed the rail line up into the Sierra Nevada: Rocklin, Auburn, Colfax, Cape Horn, Dutch Flat and the summit tunnels.
Utah State Parks: RailTrail
If you're looking for a new bike trail that has a bit of history and challenge, look no further than the Union Pacific Rail Trail State Park right outside of Park City Utah. It's a great destination for riders of all types and skill levels.
Riding From Echo Res. To Park City on a gravel bike
I started at the farthest north point of Echo reservoir and rode along the Historic Union Pacific rail trail to where it ends in Park City. It was about 27 miles one way on a dirt/gravel with some paved spots here and there. It was a tough ride but worth the adventure. The bike I’m riding is a Salsa Journeyman 700c.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TRAVELOGUE PAINTED CANYONS OF UTAH & ARIZONA 61984
This 1950s color film about the Painted Canyons in Utah and Arizona is presented by Union Pacific Railroad and narrated by Bob Johnson. Maps show their location. From Cedar City, Utah, a Union Pacific subsidiary “Utah Parks Company” buses took tourists through the canyons (1:23-1:55). Zion National Park is shown from overhead (1:57-2:40). The bus arrives at the south entrance (2:41-3:36). The Three Patriarchs are shown (3:37-3:53). People stay at Zion Lodge (3:54-4:20). Young women wear 1940s midriff ruffled crop tops (4:36). Angels Landing is shown (5:00). Girls move a viewfinder dial. Groundwater falls like tears at Weeping Rock. Viewed from under its ledge is the Great White Throne and Lady Mountain (5:10-5:50). Virgin River flows past horseback riders. The camera pans up to the Mountain of Mystery (5:52-6:15). Time-lapse video shows the movement of clouds (6:16-6:40). East Rim Trail zig-zags. Horseback riders pass the Great Arch (6:51-7:58). The National Park Service Visitor Center has indoor exhibits (8:00-8:27). The bus emerges from Mount Carmel Tunnel and past Checkerboard Mountain, its sandstone shown up-close (8:40-9:10). Shown are Kaibab Forest of ponderosa pines, the Colorado River far below, and The Grand Canyon Lodge (9:35-10:45). The giant windows inside and stone porch outside offer panoramic views (10:54-11:25). A man takes photos at a protection fence (11:33). A Park Ranger leads a group down a narrow trail for a talk (12:06-12:38). Horseback riders see deer, white-tailed squirrels, antelope, and buffalo (12:42-13:58). Angel’s Window is zoomed in on (14:18-14:40). People listen to a Ranger’s talk at Cape Royal (14:52. Two men stand on a precarious jutting rock against the backdrop of the Canyon (14:56-15:19). Point Sublime has purple shadows (15:25-15:40). Cloudlets and fog drift like smoke over the Canyon (15:56-16:34). Toroweap Formation has diverse rocks (16:35-16:57). Lodge employees perform a sing-away (16:59-17:43). The bus passes Red Canyon, through a rock tunnel, and into Bryce Canyon National Park with its fanciful structures (18:08-19:32). The bus pulls up to its Lodge and cabins (19:42-20:20). A Ranger leads on the Navajo Loop Trail (sign shown). Pinnacles and canyon walls are shown as people walk the trails. The views look up from the canyon floor to Queen Victoria (20:22-21:18). Horseback riders pass through an opening at Bryce Bowl. A pinnacle looks like a face. The limestone pillars look like figures. The Mormon Temple is framed through trees (21:20-23:09). People gather at the Overlook at Bryce National Bridge. A woman hand-feeds chipmunks, shown up-close (23:14-24:00). The camera moves past the majestic scenery (24:02-25:30). Sunset creates rock formation shadows (25:32-25:47). The bus leaves the Lodge (25:45). The bus approaches the Cedar Breaks National Monument sign (26:13). Pink and red stripes are seen, followed by many pointy formations sprinkled among pine trees (26:33-27:00). Two women walk through a field of Alpine flowers (27:02-27:24). The white rim tops red ridges (27:25-27:38). Fall leaves in many colors are shown in the Kaibab Forest (27:40-28:40). Time-lapse is shown of clouds, shadows, and rain as a storm passes over the canyons. Sunset closes the film (28:42-21:12).
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Final run of the Union Pacific Park City branch in 1989
We went out looking for what's left of the Union Pacific branch to Park City, abandoned in 1989. We were given a bunch of footage of the last runs of the local to the phosphor tipple near Park City by the Utah State Railroad Museum who shot these runs on video.
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There was hope to save this beautiful scenic line and even make it part of the Heber Creeper, yet these efforts failed and the line became part of Utah's Rails to Trails program, now a mostly un-paved trail.
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Starting in Ogden we follow the grade of the UP from the UP yards, where we run into one of the GP30's that used to pull the Park City local, now being used as a switcher in Ogden, and check out a long string of Dash 8's in open storage. And a cool truss bridge from 1887.
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Then up the main line in Weber Canyon to the town of Echo. Then the ghost rails to Park City where we have a fine dinner to top of a grand day out. (where we are spied on by a big green fellow with a camera) Odd.
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Union Train Station and Museums Ogden Utah. Snow Plow Train! Check Out My Museum Tour Video
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Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Transit Center. It was formerly the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
Address: 2501 Wall Ave, Ogden, UT 84401
Did you know: Union Station is home to the Utah State Railroad Museum, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum.
America's Most Beautiful Abandoned Railroad Tracks - Wahsatch Utah
In 1868 the Union Pacific was building west to meet the Central Pacific at Promontory Utah and drive The Golden Spike. As they built track down Echo Canyon they needed a locomotive shop at the Summit, Wahsatch. (Wasatch) As the winters there were so extreme, before they really started the shops, they moved them to Evanston Wyoming. And the roundhouse there is being restored for the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike on May 10 2019.
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Check out the beautiful abandoned tracks at Wasatch. As well as the tunnel and water tower. Truly some of America's Most Beautiful Abandoned Railroad Tracks.
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From Utahrails:
1941
September 9, 1941. A day for the history books. UP's newest steam locomotive had come to Ogden for the first time late the previous night. This new locomotive, known as Big Boy, was the first of a fleet of UP's largest steam locomotive. On this day, what would soon be known to many as the world's largest steam locomotives was about to head east with its first eastbound train, up the mountain grade it was designed to conquer. The Wasatch Grade, a sustained 1.14 percent uphill climb along Utah's Weber Canyon to Echo, where the train would take a turn away from Weber Canyon and make its way up Echo Canyon to the top of the Wasatch Mountains at UP's Wahsatch station, five miles west of the Utah-Wyoming state line. The Big Boy was nicknamed Titan of the Wasatch for a reason, it was designed to climb one of the toughest railroad grades in the United States, an uphill grade that has always been a consideration for nearly all of UP's locomotives, whatever their design. Starting at 4,298 feet elevation at Ogden, the grade climbs to 6,799 feet at Wahsatch. That's 2,501 feet in a distance of 65 miles, an average climb of 38.47 feet per mile.
When Big Boy arrived in 1941, the Wasatch grade was a modern double track railroad, with modern traffic controls. First built as a single track line in 1868 and 1869, Union Pacific's traffic increased steadily in the early years of the Twentieth Century so that a single track railroad no longer met its needs. A second track was added in parts of the canyon in 1916 and 1917, and the remainder was double-tracked in 1926. The second mainline was better engineered than the original line, and was completed with a grade that was 1.14 percent (1.14 feet of climb per 100 feet of route), compared to the original line's 1.72 percent climb. Because of its easier climb, the second track became the eastbound, uphill track. Several line changes further eased the route, but the uphill climb was always a tough one.
Railfanning the Potash Local in Utah's Canyon Country
Perhaps one of the more spectacular parts of the Union Pacific system is the former D&RGW Cane Creek Branch, which runs right by the entrance to Arches National Park, through a variety of desert landscapes to reach the Intrepid Potash plant at Potash, Utah. While the area is better known for its mountain biking, slickrock jeep trails, river running and other outdoor sports, it also sees some interesting rail traffic in the form of Uranium tailings dirty dirt trains and the once-a-week Potash Local that runs on Sundays out of Grand Junction Colorado.
Riding the Crescent Mine Grade Trail (CMG) in Park City, Utah!
Riding my FAVORITE descent in Park City aboard my amazing and new 2015 Cannondale Jekyll 27.5 Team Bike! Super fun fast, rocky, flowy trail! Leave a comment on your thoughts of the video or if you have any questions about any Mountain Bike Gear! Here is a link to my Strava account from this ride, also give me a follow and you can follow my training and racing throughout the season...
UTAH STATE PARK ROAD TRIP RAIL TRAIL
UTAH STATE PARK ROAD TRIP RAIL TRAIL
Day 1, Rails to trails
Day 1 walking along the east coast of the united states of America.
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Hike near Park City
HIking near Park City, Utah, with Salt Lake Tribune reporter and blogger Jason Bergreen.
A tour of the Eccles Rail Center
Historian Dan Kun gives a walking tour of the Eccles Rail Center at the Utah State Railroad Museum. He tells the history of Gas Turbine X-26, D&RGW SD40T-2 5371, UP Centennial 6916, and UP FEF-2 833.
Revisiting the Great Thistle Landslide on the Denver and Rio Grande Western
In 1983 the mountain above the small railroad town of Thistle slid into the canyon, severing two major US highways, cutting the mainline of the Denver and Rio Grande, and flooding and destroying the small town and causing the abandonment of the historic Marysvale branch.
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We are screwing around this week looking at the remains of the town, the slide, and revisiting the Utah floods of 1983, one of the most expensive natural disasters in US history. (OK it was no Katrina but... ) Then on to the abandoned Marysvale branch next week.
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The first railroad track laid through Thistle was a narrow-gauge spur line servicing coal mines near today's Scofield Reservoir, built in 1878 by the Utah and Pleasant Valley Railway. By 1890, the Denver and Rio Grande Western, which acquired the line in a foreclosure sale in 1882,[18] had rebuilt the line to standard gauge. The D&RGW connected this line with one they had built west from Colorado, completing a link from Salt Lake City to Denver.
The railroad built several facilities in Thistle to service and prepare trains for the change in grade and curvature of the line. The railroad placed helper engines on eastbound trains at Thistle for the ascent to Soldier Summit. The town provided a meal service for the trains until the use of on-board dining cars eliminated the need for meal stops.(Wikipedia)
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Rio Grande's westbound train 17, the Rio Grande Zephyr (scheduled to be replaced by Amtrak's California Zephyr 10 days later), running late, passed through Thistle and gingerly treaded the shifted track across the slide area late Thursday evening after waiting for an eastbound empty coal hopper train to clear. The RGZ would be the last train through for months.
By 1 a.m., now Friday, April 15, the rising river water had inundated the highway and the tracks, forcing their closure. Not only was the D&RGW affected, but so was the coal-hauling Utah Railway, which shares the Rio Grande main line (Utah has trackage rights from a junction just above Helper to Thistle and owns one of the two main tracks from Thistle to Provo).
Rio Grande track crews immediately began removing track and switches up the canyon. The Marysvale Branch, which follows Thistle Creek south, was also submerged, as was U.S. 6 to the east. All residents of Thistle-22 families-were evacuated, and by Monday, April 18, the entire town was under water, with only a few rooftops visible here and there.
Workers and heavy equipment of the Rio Grande, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), Utah County (Provo), and four private contractors labored feverishly to stem the steady advance of the mountain, but it was a losing battle. By Monday morning, the slide, advancing at the rate of 3 feet per hour, had buried the canyon with the creation of a natural dam some 600 feet wide and 50 feet high. The dam continued to grow, and water depth behind it reached 80 to 85 feet. The railroad subsequently estimated that 3.3 million dollars' worth of its equipment and property were lost underwater.
The Rio Grande Zephyr, trapped in Salt Lake City, detoured home to Denver over the Union Pacific via Laramie on Friday, April 15, with UP GP40X 9003 (UP requires cab signals on lead units) piloting the Grande's F9's. The RGZ finished out its D&RGW career running as a Denver-Grand Junction (Colo.) turn, with the railroad providing bus service between Grand Junction and Salt Lake City, via Salina.
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