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Chugging into town: Rare Utah Railway locomotive joins Utah State Railroad Museum collection on loan
OGDEN — A rare locomotive is joining the collection at the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden Union Station for the next couple years. Earlier this week, Utah Railway No. 5004 — an MK50-3 — arrived at Ogden Union Station on a loan from the Promontory Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society which just recently bought the 31-year-old locomotive. Schon Norris of the NRHS's Promontory Chapter told the Standard-Examiner in an email that No. 5004 is one of only a handful of its kind ever produced. "Utah Railway 5004 was built by Morrison-Knudsen in August 1995 — the ...
