(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amtrak riders board a train in Salt Lake City in 2007. Utah transportation officials applied for federal money to study the possibility of connecting Salt Lake City to both Las Vegas and Boise through passenger rail, but the funding was denied, according to an announcement on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
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