Big Railroad Equipment Rotary Snowplow and Wrecking Crane - Ogden train show 2020

At the Utah State Railway Museum in the old Union Depot in Ogden, there are a variety of pieces of interesting railroad equipment including a Rotary Snowplow and an Industrial Works crane.

These great items are often overlooked yet have an interesting history. The rotary is off of the Oregon Western Railway and Navigation Company in Portland Oregon. The Portland Rail Heritage Center has some other great equipment from the line, and are restoring Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 197, a 4-6-2 steam locomotive. It was placed on display near Oaks Amusement Park, where it was soon joined by the larger and more powerful 4-8-4 type locomotives Southern Pacific 4449 and Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700, both of which have been restored to operating condition. Soon OWR and N 197 will join them as an operational steam locomotive.

The crane is an Industrial Works crane used on the Union Pacific.

THE MUSEUM

Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center. Formerly the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, its name reflects the common appellation of train stations whose tracks and facilities are shared by railway companies.

No longer a railway hub, the building remains a cultural hub: it houses the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum. An art gallery of local and regional artists. The Myra Powell Gallery features traveling exhibits and the Station's permanent art collection. Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historic Ogden photographs and documents available to the public.

The last long-distance passenger train to use Union Station was Amtrak's Pioneer in May 1997. The adjacent Ogden Intermodal Transit Center serves the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) FrontRunner commuter rail line.