A pair of GE locomotives (with a third GE shoving on the rear) lead a 96 car grain train west across Utah's 'other causeway', the former Western Pacific fill along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. In the mid-1980's, this mainline was in serious danger of flooding as the lake had risen 18 feet in three years. The fill through this region became a barrier against the lake flooding nearby Interstate 80 and the state of Utah pleaded with UP to maintain it. Today the danger of flooding has diminished considerably, and the remaining saltwater ponds along the mud flats offer very little threat to operations between control points at Smelter and Burmester, Utah.
