Exciting news for the Savage Tooele Railyard (STR) as they receive Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has granted Savage Tooele Railroad Company (STR) the authority to build and operate approximately 11 miles of rail line in Tooele County, Utah, including the rehabilitation of existing track. The STR rail line will connect to Union Pacific Railroad for tenants of the Lakeview Business Park in Grantsville, Utah, linking supply chains and providing an alternative to truck-only transportation with a more environmentally-friendly option. STR is one of the only new railroads approved in the U.S. this year and one of the first railroads owned and operated by a Utah-headquartered company in the state’s history.
What does this mean for Utah, Tooele County, and the Tooele Valley & Twenty Wells project areas?
The Lakeview Business Park (LBP) tenants shipping their products by rail instead of by truck will equate to the avoidance of nearly 5,000 commercial truck trips in STR’s first year of operation and nearly 30,000 avoided commercial truck trips by its seventh year of operation. As the average distance of these truck trips is 200 miles, enabling rail connectivity into LBP via the STR will equate to the avoidance of an average of 6 million vehicle miles traveled annually by commercial trucks over the first twenty years of the short line railroad’s operation.
Click the link to learn more about this project: https://savageco.com/press-release/savage-tooele-railroad-line-in-utah-wins-surface-transportation-board-approval/