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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