In , the system had a ridership of 3,,, or about 15, per weekday as of the third quarter of FrontRunner runs south from Ogden to Provo with a total length of Before the Pleasant View station was temporarily closed, the total length was 88 miles km.
The route uses a portion of the right-of-way of the historic Utah Central Railroad , built in to connect the First transcontinental railroad with Salt Lake City and acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad UP in Seventy-four percent of the route used by FrontRunner is single-tracked, with double-track at stations and several other points along the route to allow trains to pass each other. Trains run hourly from about a. On Saturdays trains run every hour from about 6 a. FrontRunner does not yet operate on Sundays.
Several stations have a Park and Ride lot. There is no charge for parking in these lots, and the number of parking spaces available at each station ranges from "limited" to Seven of the planned eight stations opened to riders on April 26, The train was named " FrontRunner " because its route runs nearly the length of the Wasatch Front. What is now known as the FrontRunner North division was the original segment of the line that opened to the public on April 26, The station in Pleasant View, which is north of Ogden, was anticipated to open along with the rest of the line in April , but it was plagued by a variety of service problems stemming from the last 6 miles 9.
Firstly, improvements had to be made to the track to make it suitable for passenger operations, but that work was delayed when railroad workers were diverted to repair tracks damaged by a landslide near Oakridge , Oregon.
Another issue was that the shared track was still dispatched by Union Pacific, who did not want FrontRunner service to interfere with their busy freight corridor in Ogden. As such, they limited FrontRunner to one southbound train in the morning and one northbound in the evening. Riders were required to transfer from one train to another at Ogden Central station. In January this was increased to three trains for each morning and evening, with one running straight through in each direction, though the other two still required transfers between trains.
