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Publication Type	report
School or College	College of Architecture + Planning
Department	City & Metropolitan Planning
Project type	MCMP Professional Project
Author	Christensen, Michael Ray
Instructor	Keith Bartholomew
Title	An Intrastate Passenger Rail System for Utah Operated by Amtrak Using Existing Union Pacific Tracks
Date	2018
Description	The purpose of this project is to introduce the idea of establishing intercity passenger rail routes operated by Amtrak within Utah that would run on existing Union Pacific tracks. These routes would connect Salt Lake City north to Logan, southwest to Cedar City, and southeast to Grand Junction. Dedicated connecting buses wou ld connect from Cedar City to Saint George and from Green River to Moab.
Type	Text
Publisher	University of Utah
Subject	passenger rail; Amtrak; Union Pacific; Utah
Language	eng
Rights Management	© Michael Ray Christensen
ARK	ark:/87278/s6v7435p
Setname	ir_cmp
ID	1432696
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v7435p

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Setname	ir_cmp
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OCR Text	Show Mike Christensen Master of City and Metropolitan Planning Capstone Professional Project Department of City and Metropolitan Planning College of Architecture and Planning University of Utah Advisor: Keith Bartholomew, JD May 2018 Front Cover: A Siemens Charger SC-44 diesel-electric locomotive leads the Amtrak Hiawatha at Milwaukee as the train awaits a return trip to Chicago. Taken November 4, 2017 by the author. Back Cover: Sunrise over the Suisun Slough taken aboard the Amtrak Coast Starlight traveling southbound between Suisun City and Benicia. Taken January 5, 2018 by the author. ii This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v7435p/1432698