When the league released their tentative list of six markets for their inaugural season in early 2008, it included Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Hartford, Orlando, and San Francisco.

Prior to the 2011 season, head coach and general manager Jim Fassel added the title of team president.

The increasingly poor attendance at Sam Boyd Stadium jeopardized the Locomotives' future in Las Vegas.

Hambrecht openly considered relocating the team to Salt Lake City, Utah, setting a late January deadline for his decision.

[3] On January 31, 2012, Hambrecht announced (the same day the league commissioner resigned) that, should the fall 2012 season go on, the Locomotives would stay in Las Vegas.

[4] The league also considered moving to Cashman Field, the home of the minor-league baseball Las Vegas 51s, but the team returned to Sam Boyd Stadium for the first two games in 2012.

By the start of the 2012 season, the Locomotives proved to be the best team on the field in the UFL, decisively winning their first two contests against Virginia and Omaha.

With already low attendance numbers dropping further across the league, the UFL suspended operations four weeks into the season, never to return.