Train Rides

Last summer, we learned that driving to Ogden during rush hour was a two and half hour stint filled with road rage and impatience. As we crawled along with other motorists, we were in awe of the new Front Runner passing all of the cars and envious that we didn't utilize it's services.

We were again faced with the rush hour commute last week as we made dinner plans in Ogden. The stop and go traffic was something that I did not want to endure again. I thought how wonderful it would be to take Trax to down town and then Front Runner to Ogden. The stop in Ogden is just down the street from where my sister in law works so it would be kinda fun to just try it out.
We started off on Trax from Sandy at about 4pm. People on the train were making snide comments about me taking pictures...they must have thought that I was a real tourist.




When we got to the down town station to change trains, I was really impressed with the cool satchels protruding out of the rocks here and there. I thought that it was pretty neat that Trax, Front Runner, Amtrac and Greyhound were all in the same place!






It wouldn't be the city without it's share of colorful people. There is always someone! The above man yelled at me for taking his picture! He screamed that he knew I worked for the State and I had no right to take his picture. I assured him in the thickest southern accent that I could muster up that I didn't work for the State, but I do work for the media!

We got on the Front Runner at the same time that we were supposed to be in Ogden. It had taken an hour to get from Sandy to Downtown. We were confident that it would only be about half an hour away from dinner because of how fast we saw it moving last year.

Well, we were wrong! It was 5 o'clock and I-15 was speeding right along! The train moseyed along the tracks like a Sunday Drive! Cars were flying toward Ogden much faster than the train courtesy of Legacy Highway! I wonder how in the world the transit is making any money at all. A man on the train told us that a monthly pass is about $175.00 for about a two hour ride to his work on 33rd South! We figured that price and a longer commute just doesn't seem to be worth it.

With nothing but dinner to do, we didn't mind this trip and it was actually pretty fun. We met some nice (except for screamy photo-phobic guy) people and I got some really fun pictures! Now we know that if we ever move to Utah that the trains should not be used for anything but leisure. We finally arrived in Ogden an hour late and thank goodness we decided to leave Ogden at 9pm because we caught the last Trax train back to Sandy without even knowing it!