Links To Other Web Sites
This page was last updated on March 10, 2008.
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 Utah Railroads Web Sites:
- Charlotte Hamaker's Utah Railway history page.
- Charlotte Hamaker's Utah Railway photos.
- Jack Kirkham's Utah Railway photos. (Courtesy of Charlotte Hamaker)
- Charlotte Hamaker's Carbon County history page.
- Otto Perry Collection at Denver Public Library — This link points directly to one of my favorite photos, UP EMC motorcar M-32 at Salt Lake City in 1936. For other Otto Perry photos, change the last five digits, 19472 in this case, to the OP negative number from the DPL Otto Perry catalog. (Here is a link to a view of LA&SL McKeen M-100 at Salt Lake City in 1931. It also shows UP's Salt Lake City roundhouse.)
- Jim Harrawood's UtahRails.com — A collection of information about Utah railroads. (no longer maintained, following Jim's death in January 2006)
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 & 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
- James Griffin's Rio Grande pages
Bingham
- Hickman Family at Bingham Canyon
- Hickman Family Bingham Photos
- Mark Evans' Bingham Photos
- Gene Halverson's Bingham Canyon Memories
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
- Derrick Brashear's Locomotive Truck Sideframes page
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
Web Site Tools:
- NoteTab — My choice for a basic HTML editor. The clips are very easy to use.
- CuteFTP and CuteHTML — My choice for a stand-alone FTP agent, if I weren't using FrontPage 2000.
- 1st Page 2000 — Free WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- HTML Kit — Free WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- HTML for the conceptually challenged
- 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.
- HTML With 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.
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.
Quantcast — How does UtahRails.net rate as a web site?
