It saved the locomotives' valuable hours on the transcontinental railway route. What was once a short, compelling shortcut for trains accidentally created America's most incredible lake feature and a natural spectacle of a living and breathing canvas of colors across the Great Salt Lake. The Lucin Cutoff was an engineering marvel of the golden age of train travel, spanning directly across the Great Salt Lake. Its defining feature, a causeway, bypassed steep grades and sharp curves, and unknowingly, in chasing speed, altered the landscape it crossed.

The Lucin Cutoff ran from Ogden Union Station, one of America's most beautiful train stations that isn't Amtrak , to its namesake, the railroad town of Lucin on the western side of the Great Salt Lake. Utah has multiple train travel options,

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