As much as I was hoping to catch a train with the setting sun in the background (at Lakeside, the west side of Salt Lake), Union Pacific didn't oblige. So, even though there isn't a train in sight, I thought it was worth including this shot of the sun setting in the western Utah sky beyond the Salt Flats.
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The great Salt Lake is pretty amazing when you are standing on the shoreline looking across it. It's even more amazing when you watch a train run across the causeway from Lakeside out toward Promontory Point and Ogden! Here, a westbound doublestack train is doing just that.
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This westbound doublestack train is running on yellow signals following a westbound manifest. The train is about halfway through Lakeside on the approach to the causeway across Salt Lake.
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This manifest heads west across the Lucin Cutoff. This cutoff was built by Southern Pacific in the first few years of the 20th Century. The original cutoff included a trestle straight across the lake. The trestle deteriorated, however, and was replaced with a causeway. You can see the causeway here to the left.
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West of the Lucin Cutoff across Salt Lake, UP's Lakeside Subdivision runs in a (nearly) straight line for over 50 miles west toward Nevada across the Salt Flats! That's the distance from Denver to the Moffat Tunnel in a straight shot. Here, an eastbound manifest works toward the causeway across the great Salt Lake.
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