Running about 10 hours behind schedule, Amtrak's westbound Desert Wind train #35 glides west between the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake at Lake Point. The former Western Pacific Railroad, Interstate 80, Lakeshore Drive, and Stansbury Island are all in the background.
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.