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Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Division by John Signor HC w/ Dust Jacket
Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Division by John Signor
Hard cover with Dust Jacket Reflections from lights on some photos
Copyright 2007
480 Pages
8.5x11 inches
682 photos, maps and graphics, station list, bibliography, index.
Contents
Introduction6
Acknowledgements8
Chapter One
Pioneer 1863-190011
Chapter Two
Coming of Age 1900-192967
Chapter Three
The Late Steam Era 1930-1955197
Chapter Four
The Diesel Age 1955-1981341
Chapter Five
The Final SP Years 1981-1996433
Epilogue448
Appendix: Salt Lake Division Place Names449
Bibliography 464
Index467
More than 500 miles from Ogden, Utah to Reno, Nevada, at the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada, comprised SP's Salt Lake Division. Although it was a vital and historic part of the Southern Pacific, from the building of the Central Pacific until the end of the SP in 1996, its day-to-day history and operation, with the difficulties of weather, scant water, and steep grades, has remained in relative obscurity. This is largely due to its remoteness. The Salt Lake Division, located in a sparsely populated interior basin and range country characterized by vast depressions or desert sinks, and the furrowing of innumerable north-south mountain ranges, is one of the least populated regions in the continental United States. West of the Pequops Range, much of the line is located along the Humboldt River which, from northeastern Nevada, runs west and southwest before finally disappearing into the ground in the Humboldt Sink. And though many improvements have been made to the alignment of the railroad over the years, much of this country even today is much as the pioneers saw it. An important part of this railroad is the Great Salt Lake crossing, which was built during the Harriman era. The author, master SP historian John Signor, has drawn upon original railroad records, published accounts in early newspapers, trade magazines and periodicals, maps and the recollections of old-timers to make a complex and interesting railroad narrative about this 780-mile line, including its several branches and auxiliary main lines.
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