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Tidying Up Trax

Ed Yeates
KSL-TV

      TRAX trains have been rolling in and out of Salt Lake every eight minutes for the past 13 days. But wait until you see the after-hours place where they're groomed quickly for the next day. As Ed Yeates reports, it's an Olympic event all its own.
      Sixty-two trains, some our own, others from Dallas Rapid Transit — on loan for the games — roll into UTA's Lovendell Center in the wee hours of the morning.
      Now, a new crowd jumps on board, picking up trash, mopping, vacuuming, and polishing glass and chrome.
      Robin Bedard, a member of the Trax crew, says, "We have to get these trains out every four minutes, cause if we don't get them out every four minutes, we're not going to make it out on the line on time."
      While crews clean, inspectors on other cars check doors and rotating seats.
      In the cabs, they test controls, ringing bells and blowing horns. In the pit, electromechanics check the undercarriages, and on top, the overcarriages.
      Like some NASCAR event, time here waits for no one, even when we're trying to do an interview.
      Darin Francom explains, "We have to have them all clean and set to go out. They have to be in a certain order, so it's pretty stressful."
      "I've never worked with a greater group of people right now who have spirited around the Olympics to get things done," says Trax supervisor Steve Beverley.
      The final station — through the train wash. Then park and wait, but only for a while. The first train moves out at 4:40 am, then the second. Another day of Olympic crowds are waiting.
      "Last Saturday, we carried 90,000 people on Trax alone," says UTA General Manager John Inglish. "We're more than doubling our daily bus ridership."
      Visitors aboard Trax are apparently leaving lots of things behind, everything from cell phones to Olympic pins. Cleanup crews are also finding sacks filled with empty beer bottles — neatly stacked so they won't fall over — something they call "tidy trash."