On Christmas Eve 1989, Amtrak's Desert Wind train #35 takes a detour via UP's Provo Subdivision (now the Sharp Sub) west of Payson. A derailed LAAPZ stack train on the Lynndyl Sub at Warner (Tooele) made the reroute necessary between Salt Lake City and Lynndyl.
Depicts Amtrak's "Desert Wind" service, which operated from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, via Las Vegas. Its discontinuance in 1997 left the lower Intermountain region, including Las Vegas, without any passenger rail service since.