Train Ticket from Salt Lake

Before my grandpa Russ retired, my grandma Mary would take the two day train ride from Chicago to Utah to visit us. It was always a bit strange because for some reason all trains coming in and leaving Salt Lake do so at about midnight, so we'd have to go downtown in the middle of the night to pick her up and drop her off. This is the ticket and schedule for her trip back, from SLC to ARA, which doesn't appear to be a valid station any longer, but is probably somewhere around Chicago. From the date of the ticket, this is probably a trip she made out to see my brother Colby right after he was born in early May of 1982.

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