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Colorado Rail Annual #15 Idaho Montana Issue w/ Dust Jacket 1981
Colorado Rail Annual No 15 a Journal of Railroad History in the Rocky Mountain West, Idaho Montana Issue
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
215 pages
Copyright 1981
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Utah & Northern
The Narrow Gauge that Opened a Frontier by Mallory Hope Ferrell9
OSL&UN:
the Oregon Short Line Eraby Cornelius W. Hauck82
Union Pacific, Montana Division by Cornelius W. Hauck93
Gilmore & Pittsburgh
Northern Pacific Subsidiary, Union Pacific Tributaryby Rex C. Myers 161
Maps:
Union Pacific System 6
Utah Northern 22
Utah & Northern 51
Utah & Northern-Union Pacific62
Gilmore & Pittsburgh 168-171
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
Colorado Rail Annual No. 15
In this edition, the fifteenth in the series, we document the story of the first railroad to breach the remote mining frontiers of Idaho and western Montana - the narrow gauge Utah & Northern. The leaders of the Mormon Church conceived a plan to build a railroad - narrow gauge, for minimum cost - from a connection with the Union Pacific at Ogden for some 400 miles into Montana, to bring the trade of the mining camps to their mercantile establishments. The task proved overwhelming, and the Union Pacific stepped in to complete the project, creating one of the longest and most isolated narrow gauge railroads in the west. The history of this pioneer narrow gauge is set forth in the first part of our book.
The Utah & Northern narrow gauge subsequently became the standard gauge Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern, and in due course was integrated into the Union Pacific System, still serving today as an important division of that railroad. The operations of this standard gauge successor to the Utah & Northern during the first half of the 20th century are also detailed in this edition of the Colorado Rail Annual.
Although branch lines to other mining camps and prospects in Montana figured prominently in original plans. none were ever built by the U&N or Union Pacific. One obscure independent short line to take this step in the 20th century was the standard gauge Gilmore & Pittsburgh, which ran for three decades from Armstead (near Dillon) on the Union Pacific across the Bitterroot Mountains to Salmon, in Idaho's Lemhi Valley. The story of this implausible mountain short line forms the third part of our volume.
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