Train ride!

We finally made it on the Frontrunner yesterday!  We rode from Murray to Ogden and back.  That's all he wanted to do.  I think he had more fun on the train than he would have had at an amusement park!

Waiting for our train in Murray.  SO excited!

All aboard!

He was facing the rear and that worked out pretty good.  I could spot things ahead and he still had time to see them as we zoomed by at 79 miles per hour.

Passing an accelerating freight.

Tank cars downtown.

UTA's Warm Springs Road facility is the temporary home to STADLER Rail where they manufacture electric light rail locomotives.  Their new facility is located out by the tailings pile along I-80.  SEPTA (Pennsylvania) locomotives in the background.

More of the yard.

UTA employees get to have a special train stop to get on or off the Frontrunner train.

Old COMET cars.  Nice job maintaining the rolling stock UTA! 😡

Union Pacific car repair facility North of UTA.  They used to repair locomotives in the facility that UTA now occupies South of here.

NASA SLS booster segment cars in the back!!!  Now with HVAC to keep the motors cool during Summer transport to the Cape.  They used to only haul Space Shuttle motors during the cooler winter months.  One can imagine why!

U.P. has been retrofitting the SLS booster cars all year.  I was surprised to see them parked on the siding North of Clearfield.

On the flyover on the way into Ogden.

Cars waiting to be scrapped by Durbano Metals in Ogden.  Skyler was sad.

More of the scrapyard.

We had the first seat behind the cab car on the way back home!

He was thrilled!  Meeting a Northbound freight somewhere between Ogden and Roy.