The train was named "FrontRunner" because its route runs nearly the length of the Wasatch Front. Eight more stations opened on December 10, 2012, and one more on August 8, 2022. Seven of the planned eight stations opened to riders on April 26, 2008. Work started on the initial section of the line from Salt Lake City to Ogden in 2005. By 2002 an agreement to purchase the shop and renovate it to become UTA's Warm Springs Shop was approved. In the same year, UTA began negotiations with Union Pacific to purchase the former Salt Lake Shops. In 1998 UTA tested a commuter train set borrowed from the Altamont Corridor Express along Union Pacific track which runs alongside what would eventually be the FrontRunner route. There is no charge for parking in these lots, and the number of parking spaces available at each station ranges from "limited" to 874. Several stations have a Park and Ride lot. FrontRunner trains face north, regardless of the direction of travel. FrontRunner is a push–pull train locomotive system (with the locomotives running backwards half the time). FrontRunner operates some service on holidays other than Thanksgiving, Christmas and the observed Christmas holiday, and New Year's Day and the observed New Year's holiday. As of August 2017 FrontRunner does not run during most hours of Sundays. On Saturdays trains run every hour from about 6 a.m. to just after midnight on weekdays (increasing to half-hour runs for the morning and evening commutes). There are about 25 round trips on weekdays between Ogden and Provo (through Salt Lake City). FrontRunner closely parallels Interstate 15 for most of the route. Most of the route used by FrontRunner is single-tracked (though it runs parallel to UP tracks), with double-track at stations and several other points along the route to allow trains to pass each other. UTA-owned track parallels UP track until Ogden, where, until Aug(date of last train), when service to Pleasant View was "Suspended Indefinitely", Union Pacific and Utah Transit Authority share the final 6 mi (9.7 km) of track to Pleasant View. The route uses a portion of the right-of-way of the historic Utah Central Railroad, built in 1869 to connect the First transcontinental railroad with Salt Lake City and acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1878. Before the Pleasant View station was closed, the total length was 88 miles (142 km). In 2021, the system had a ridership of 2,062,400, or about 12,600 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2022.įrontRunner runs south from Ogden to Provo with a total length of 81.2 miles (130.7 km). FrontRunner ( reporting mark UTAX) is a commuter rail train operated by the Utah Transit Authority that operates along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah with service from the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center in central Weber County through Davis County, Salt Lake City, and Salt Lake County to Provo Central station in central Utah County.
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