AntNJTrainSet wrote:So does anyone know if this line is still used today, or if any reminants of it are still around/still used? Would be interesting to find out.
Ant,
You can find all you want to know about it here;
http://www.nps.gov/gosp
Tracks were removed many years ago when the causeway across the Great Salt Lake was constructed. The tracks were re-installed for the park that exists there today and end just out of site from the visitors center. The two steam engines (replicas) run most days.
I visited the park in 1995 or 1996. It is absolutely in the middle of no-where. The nearest rail head serves the Morton Thiokol plant that makes the SRB's for the space shuttle.
One of the neat things there are two right of ways graded one by the Central Pacific the other by the UP. They parallel each other for miles. Part of each company's attempt to get as much land and gov't funding as possible.
It was neat to visit, I would strongly suggest that any railfan do so.
Chris