All aboard the Smokin’ Boxcar in Morgan! Where barbecue and breakfast are served up Monday through Saturday.
The Boxcar name is appropriate, since customers can look out the restaurant’s windows and watch Union Pacific freight trains pass back and forth in Weber Canyon. And, it’s location at 145 Commercial Street is just steps away from Morgan County’s historic passenger depot/museum at 98 Commercial Street, which once served a section of the Transcontinental Railroad, and displays an old Union Pacific caboose.
Owner Jack Neal opened the Smokin’ Boxcar restaurant in 2022. He was in the landscaping business for many years before starting his own food truck, also named the Smokin’ Boxcar. He ran it for four years before deciding to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant.
“People told me I should go where there was a need, and Morgan didn’t have a sit-down restaurant since Larry’s Spring Chicken Inn closed,” he said. (The current version of Larry’s Chicken is to-go only.)…