Historic Sandy is a light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 station in Sandy

Sandy, Utah

Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah....

, Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 serviced by the Blue Line of the Trax

UTA TRAX

TRAX is a three-line light rail system in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, serving Salt Lake City and several of its suburbs throughout Salt Lake County. The system is operated by the Utah Transit Authority ....

 system. It is in a suburban residential area north of 9000 South

Utah State Route 209

State Route 209 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, following 9000 South and other east–west streets south of Salt Lake City...

 within Sandy's original street grid, which has much smaller blocks than is standard in Salt Lake County. The south end of the island platform

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

 is built over a major canal carrying water north from the Jordan River. The southwest corner of the platform connects directly to a small park next to the canal.