GRANTSVILLE, Utah (ABC4) — The first rail line in Utah in nearly 80 years is coming to Tooele County. The rail line will be constructed by rehabilitating about six miles of existing track just east of ...

Savage Tooele Railroad, Utah’s first new short line railroad in more than a century, opened Wednesday in northwest Utah. The 11-mile route which restored a former Union Pacific branch serves the ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on June 24 to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The ...

SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand ...

A controversial railway project in northeast Utah's Uinta Basin has set its sights on up to $2 billion in private activity bond financing as it fends off heightened environmental concerns in the wake ...

Grantsville, Utah, Sept. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Savage Tooele Railroad, Utah’s first new short-line railroad in more than a century, opened yesterday to provide companies in northwest Utah with ...

On plateaus overlooking the Uinta Basin's hills of sandstone and sagebrush, pumpjacks bob their heads as they lift viscous black and yellow oil from the earth that will eventually make everything from ...

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DUCHESNE, Utah — On plateaus overlooking the Uinta Basin's hills of sandstone and sagebrush, pumpjacks bob their heads as they lift viscous black and yellow oil from the earth that will eventually ...

A memorial to the Chinese laborers who worked on the transcontinental railroad is set to be placed near the Utah Capitol — and state Sen. Karen Kwan said it’s “very emotional to be able to honor my ...

The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis has released a Draft Environmental Assessment for Savage Tooele Railroad Company’s (STR) proposal to construct and operate a new ...