Links To Other Web Sites
This page was last updated on April 8, 2012.
Today's railroad companies in Utah: Since we do not represent any railroad in any way, please do not contact us with any concerns or issues about today's railroad companies. They can be contacted directly:
- BNSF Railway
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Utah Central Railway (Patriot Rail Corp.) (Ogden)
- Utah Railway
- Utah Transit Authority (TRAX light rail and Frontrunner commuter rail
Other Union Pacific Web Sites
- Union Pacific Historical Society
- Jim Moomaw's Railfan Guide to Union Pacific in Oregon. (broken link)
- Mike Clark's UP Photos
- Brett Wirick's UP Web Pages — Includes information and current photos on UP's Evanston Subdivision (Ogden to Green River), Lynndyl Subdivision (Salt Lake City to Milford), and Caliente Subdivision (Milford to Las Vegas)
Rio Grande
- Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society Home Page
- Scott Meier's Online D&RGW Archive
- Kevin Morgan's Colorado Railfan web site
- Nathan Holmes' D&RGW.net web site
- Ghost Depot, Rio Grande
Bingham
- Hickman Family at Bingham Canyon
- Hickman Family Bingham Photos
- Mark Evans' Bingham Photos
- Gene Halverson's Bingham Canyon Memories
- Gene Halverson's Bingham Blog
Utah Railway and Carbon County
- Carbon County on UTGenWeb — Includes excellent histories of the towns of Carbon County.
Other Utah Railroads Sites
- Jim Harrawood's UtahRails.com — An archived version of Jim Harrawood's web site, following his death in 2006.
- Historical Markers Database — markers with Utah as a location, sorted by county, alphabetically; this database has several historical markers with reference to Utah railroads.
- Desert Empire — A separate web site based on the D&RGW file "Desert Empire." Although uncredited, the site appears to be associated with the Union Station museum in Ogden, Utah.
- UtahRails — A separte web site hosted by Google Sites.
Railroad Modeling
- Sam McCall's HO Sam Home Page
- National Model Railroad Association
- Steam Era Freight Cars — Ted Culotta's web site.
- The Model Train Magazine Index — Kalmbach's magazine index site.
- Espee Modelers Home Page — Richard Percy's SP web site.
- Rivet Counters and Nit Pickers Page — Nelson Kennedy's web site for prototype diesel dimensions.
- Craig Zeni's Roofer Madness I, Roofer Madness II, Roofer Madness III, and Roofer Madness IV — Photographs of the tops of diesel locomotives.
Locomotive Notes
- The Diesel Shop
- Steam Locomotive.com
- Shay Locomotives.com
- Andre Kristopans' GM Locomotive Serial Numbers
- David Thompson's Locomotive Rosters
- LocoData Website
- The UNofficial EMD Homepage! — This is a Tripod.com site, so there are lots of pop-up ads.
- Tom Chandler's Railspot Engine History Database - All-Time Rosters (broken link)
- Tom Chandler's AT&SF Roster
- Q Station — Resource for BN, BNSF and AT&SF information
- Derrick Brashear's Locomotive Truck Sideframes page (broken link)
Publishers
- Withers Publishing Company — Publishers of Diesel Era magazine and numerous railroad books, including books about Union Pacific.
- Extra 2200 South — The magazine that started the diesel locomotive information hobby. First published as a newsletter in 1961, and as a subscription magazine in 1968. Iron Horse Publishers has published Extra 2200 South since 1990.
- Railfax — Publishers of Extra 2200 South from 1968 to 1990. All back issues of this, the Don Dover era, are still available from this web site.
Railroad-related Government Sites
- Federal Railroad Administration
- ICC accident reports, 1911-1966 — Interstate Commerce Commission
- NTSB - Railroad — National Transportation Safety Board
- NTSB Railroad Publications
- NTSB RR Accident Publications
- Surface Transportation Board Home Page
General Railroad Information
- Railroad Parts: History for Kids
- Transportation History of the Transcontinental Railroad — A summary at FreightCapital.com, of the role that the transcontinental railroad played in the early movement of freight in the West.
General Railroad Photos
Web Site Tools
- NoteTab — My choice for a basic HTML editor. The clips are very easy to use.
- CuteFTP — My original choice for a stand-alone FTP agent, but I now use the cross-platform FireFTP add-on for Firefox.
- HTML Kit — Free WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- Obscure's HTML Reference
- Web Developers Group
- PC World's "Build Your First Web Site" — This one will get you started nicely.
- Bradsoft's TopStyle — My choice for a CSS editor.
- Rich In Style — Cascading style sheets information.
- W3C home page — World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) basic standards.
- W3C HTML reference — World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) basic standards for HTML.
- W3C CSS reference — World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) basic standards for CSS.
- Taming Lists — A great article about using unordered lists, and the CSS to make them do what you want.
- A List Apart — An excellent resource for CSS-related standards and design.
- CSS Discuss List Wiki — An excellent source for CSS-related information, including all the known hacks and work-arounds, along with basic things to do and not to do.
- HTML Dog — Patrick Griffith's excellent reference for HTML and CSS, including his Suckerfish drop-down menus, based on CSS design using unordered lists, which are used here by UtahRails.net.
Software Tools
- SyncBackSE — Backup software from 2BrightSparks, excellent functionality, cheap to buy, and easy to use.
Self Publishing
YouTube Links
- Information R/evolution
- The Machine is Us/ing Us
- Net Neutrality
- Did You Know?
- We Will Rock You (Pepsi commercial)
- What Needs Shredding — SSI shredding videos
Other Links
Bailin' Wire Bob — Presenting MP3 files of four of my uncle Bob Strack's music from when he was recording in Nashville in 1958.
Plagiarism — Information about plagiarism, what it is, and how to avoid it.
Halo — An index page for me and my fellow fans of the Halo game series.
1940 census — An index page for better use of the newly avialbale 1940 census.
Start Page — UtahRails custom start page.
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