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From 1986 to 1999, the depot served as Salt Lake City's Amtrak station, replacing the Union Pacific Depot. It was served by the California Zephyr, Desert Wind, and Pioneer trains, with the latter two having been discontinued in 1997. [6] [7] The California Zephyr runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California.
Original corporate logo of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad SPLA&SL railroad workers, early 1900s in the Tintic Mining District, Utah. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (reporting mark SLR) [1] was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities (Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles ...
Incorporated in Salt Lake City in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line offered state-of-art passenger amenities even though its main attraction for Clark was the potential in freight services. E. H. Harriman (then President of Union Pacific) took immediate notice. This new "Salt Lake Route" utilized trackage in ...
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum, a preservation society founded in 1984, is located next to the Union Pacific rail yard in Portola, California. The remaining portion of the Feather River Route follows a corridor similar to that of State Route 70 in California and former State Route 49 in Nevada.
The city council of Los Angeles had desired since the 1910s to construct a union station to replace the existing three terminal stations in Los Angeles: the Santa Fe's La Grande Station, the Southern Pacific's Central Station, and the Union Pacific's Salt Lake Station. As the proposed station would be built and owned by the city and open to all ...
Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. ISBN 0-88418-000-X. Signor, John R. (1988). The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company; Union Pacific's Historic Salt Lake Route. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. ISBN 0-87095-101-7. Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas ...
The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot is a building on the western edge of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Built in 1908–09, it dates back to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. As Salt Lake Union Pacific Railroad Station, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The tracks are currently owned by the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), with the San Joaquin Valley Railroad operating on nearly all of the corridor, except for a 1 mi (1.6 km) portion of the Union Pacific mainline connecting the eastern and western branches near Goshen. [2] The specific subdivisions projected for re-use as the CVC are: