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Crossroads of the West A Photographic Look at Fifty Years of Railroading in Utah
Crossroads of the West A Photographic Look at Fifty Years of Railroading in Utah by Blair Kooistra, Jim Belmont & Dave Guyer
Hard Cover w/DJ
160 pages
Copyright 1998
CONTENTS
Foreword: This is the Place4
Chapter I: The Overland Route6
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and the great terminal at Ogden
Chapter II: In the Shadow of the Wasatch36 Railroading along the Wasatch Front
Chapter III: The Land No One Wanted92
Making tracks across Utah's deserts
Chapter IV: Soldier Summit132
Big-time action on Utah's premier mountain main line
Chapter V: Mergermania Hits Utah152
Assimilating the competition
Acknowledgments and Bibliography158
Index159
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Utah is more than merely the location of Promontory, celebrated completion point of the first transcontinental railroad. And it is more than just hot Union Pacific stack trains singeing the high iron on their way between L.A. ports and Chicago intermodal terminals.
In dramatic text and vibrant photos, CROSSROADS OF THE WEST: A PHOTOGRAPHIC LOOK AT FIFTY YEARS OF RAILROADING IN UTAH leads you through Utah's colorful railroad history, documenting the variety of railroading activities of the state's past while not neglecting the busy, engaging operations of the present.
Bamberger's Brill Bullet cars zip along some of Utah's 200 miles of interurban trackage, delivering passengers to workplaces and playgrounds. Day in and day out, Kennecott Copper's electric pit motors trudge through a dizzying maze of tracks, clinging to ledges in the world's largest open pit mine.
The colorful, beloved Rio Grande Zephyr fights the good fight long after the advent of Amtrak. In a scene of classic mountain railroading, Utah Railway assembles its entire fleet of Alcos to pull and push coal trains over Soldier Summit-and often they "drag race" Denver & Rio Grande Western's own "Short Fast Trains" over the hill.
You will witness Southern Pacific's valiant struggle against a lake that rises over the rails and D&RGW's futile attempts to prevent mud from erasing town and tracks at Thistle. From 4-8-4 Northems charging by water tanks with the San Francisco Overland to Geneva Steel's Baldwin diesels handling cars of molten steel to BNSF freights utilizing newly granted trackage rights, CROSSROADS OF THE WEST beautifully portrays the changing scene of railroading in Utah.
235 brilliant full color photos and 9 maps.
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