Like a wood pile fit for a giant, thousands of wooden railroad ties are resting in stacks each the size of a house. The ties are part of a rail line renewal project by Union Pacific Railroad.

More than 90 percent of them are about Union Pacific trains. One person said they had to sit for five hours once and another time parked half a mile from home and walked.

Despite 111 years of serving Park City, the Union Pacific Railroad held no nostalgic attachment to this branch. Clyde Durham, one of it’s executives assigned to the project, expressed the company’s ...