Not really. While the Uinta Basin Railway would be capable of carrying other goods, it has always been clear that the railway is intended for oil trains. In fact, at the quantities being discussed (around 300,000 barrels or 12.6 million gallons of oil per day), the railway would have little capacity for anything else.

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According to the final scope of study, each day, between three and ten oil trains would travel along the railway on average, along with perhaps one train carrying fracking products every other day. Half of the trains would leave the basin full of oil and half would enter the basin empty. Each oil train would contain around 110 cars, which each typically have around 29,000 gallons of capacity. The SCIC does not anticipate that there would be enough demand to generate additional trains carrying other products.

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The railway is not being designed to provide passenger service. Rather than ending at one of the Uinta Basin population centers, the railway would end at two remote sites suitable for industrial uses and large facilities for loading oil onto the trains.