Show I Ogden Now a Great Railroad Center I I I Never In the time history of western rail railroading railroading railroading has there been a year more prosperous than 1906 Each and every oer road has had more business than It could take care of Hundreds of orders for additional motive power and rolling stock have hae been placed with the manufacturers while many millions have ha YO been expended by b the various railroad corporations for of ot bettering their facilities to take care of ot the traffic Ogden is perhaps the best point west of Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago from which to study stud railroad conditions so far as it refers to trans transcontinental transcontinental I continental contine lines Nature hate has been I most generous to Ogden for it formed here the natural gateway to the tho four fourpoints j I points of or the compass Time and again efforts have been made to wrest the I railroad advantages from the place but butin butIn butin in each instance these efforts have served to bring out more prominently the superiority of the location of the Junction City eit With the building of the cutoff acro s tile Great Salt lake lakefront front from Ogden bythe by the Harriman system every ceo doubt as to t the continuation of or Ogden Ogdon as a a railroad center was wiped away awa Since that time the tho holdings of oC all the railroad corporations corporation entering the city have been increased and out outside outside outside side lines have planned to build in this direction This can best be illustrated by b the fact that the Harriman lines alone appropriated for im mm improvements in Ogden during the years 1906 1006 and 1007 1907 No Longer a Mere Junction Ogden has long since ceased to be a amere amere amere mere junction point The city has grown in size eize on a comparative basis with the railroad Interests and during the past few years many new and sub substantial substantial substantial industries have been added There are four tour of the large lines run running running running ning In itt and out of the place and still stilt another probably two more will be added during the thc next few fe years In addition to the amount of money mone ex cx expended by Harriman the Gould lines have also prepared to expend large sums here During the past two years they the have acquired many thousands of dollars worth of oC real estate upon which they purpose to erect large terminals It Is not unlikely that with the com coin completion completion of or the Western Pacific they will build north from Ogden to Portland Seattle arid and other coast cities of or the th northwest and thus tap much of the theS J J r rt S t territory that has been held as ex cx exclusive elusive by the Harriman interests Interest The Chicago Northwestern has its engineers in the field at the t time surveying su a line into Ogden n from the north Recent assertions are to the effect that this line will enter the through Ogden canyon the most iI canyon in the country countr Options on onland Jand land there are said to be held by these people and the route Is a most feasible one It is 19 also aiso said that the Burlington is headed in this direction from rom the east Aside from increasing their facilities the Harriman system has added con considerable considerable equipment during the time year just closed and a still greater list has hag ha been ordered for 1907 The Oregon Short Line has received during the th past year four switching engines and twelve consolidation freight locomotives tives They have haye added two baggage cars twenty passenger coaches and three postal cars to their passenger equipment All AU of or these are sixty feet fec t in Jim length modern and up to date Their freight equipment has been increased by the tho addition of two hundred drop bottom steel gondola cars each having fifty tons capacity This class of ears cars Is much desired for tor coal coat shipments To the motive power of or the Union Pacific there have been added during 1906 1106 six Pacific type passenger Income locomotives locomotives tives and eight of or the consolidation freight engines The Southern Pacific has received three Atlantic type and a alike alike alike like number of Pacific type locomotives locomotives locomotives tives and three switching engines gines Harriman System Orders for 1907 The orders for the year 1907 for the ti three lines mentioned above are as tel fol follows lows Oregon Short Line Four switching locomotives 10 consolidation freight lo locomotives locomotives capacity steel stock cars capacity box bo cars with wUn steel ra ca capacity rapacIty rapacity steel hopper bottom bottoni coal coat cars capacity steel flat cars ars ars SOO 00 capacity drop bottom steel gOT gon gondola gi dola doia cars 25 cabooses Union Pacific Eight consolidate u i I freight locomotives 4 Pacific type pas passenger passenger pasS S nger locomotives steel hopper bottom cars 10 cabooses s Southern Pacific Two Pacific 13 pe passenger locomotives 2 Atlantic t lie passenger locomotives 4 switching lo ho hoS S Continued on Page Pane 7 OGDEN NOW A GREAT RAILROAD CENTER I IS IA 1 ff SW itt t t uJ W T i k w f y r rV rt w f W f v S A J JH 1 H tv 1 S f J f A V r t f v 5 4 i iV a I IA V A AS I 4 L Lt t 5 r rS eo 5 S S 55 5 i A 5 5 A A S SV V C Si SiA Sik k 5 4 A 5 5 55 A AA 4 1 4 55 A 5 54 5 5 5 S SC S C 5 5 4 A S S 5 5 t S 54 V t SC S SA A no noS S S Entrance to Sand Ridge Cutoff on the Oregon Short Line Continued from Page 6 S OO capacity steel oper ODer bottom cars 30 cabooses Sand Ridge Cutoff For the Harriman Interests the en entering entering wedge to the many proposed Im Improvements at this place was the build bund building bundIng ing of a fourmile piece of ot track which has boon christened the Sand Ridge cutoff cut tf As to distance e the saving Is small but as to ro facilitating the hand handling handling handling ling of the tho work In the local yards It Itis ItIs Itis is of ot great importance This small piece of was built at an ex ec expenditure of tram front to Moro More than eighteen months time was required for tor Its construction The Th large expenditure was made necessary on ac account account account count of striking a strong flow of water near the west end of the big cut which extends through a mountain of sand that has always borne the name of the Sand Ridge Before a scheme was de tie devised devised for tor taking care of the flow fio of water ater It had cut deep fissures into the sand and considerably retarded the construction work Perhaps the most Important feature In connection with the new cutoff Is the fact that It permits the elimination of ot the old main maln Short Line track and andY andY Y Cr which extend across tho the freight yards Immediately west of the union depot With these tracks out of the themy way my tho Southern Pacific and Union Pacific freight yards will bo io connected with a series of trucks s forming one of the largest yards In the western coun country country country try On tho the old line Une south from fim Ogden the grade was as one per p r cent The new newline newline newline line reduces this one half and does j 1 away with the tho necessity of using help helper er engines to shove shoe southbound freight trains over the bill hill to Syracuse Syrau Junction A single engine will now be ie able to handle a greater tonnage than could formerly be handled by toy two tw en engines engines engines gines over the same road While e the passenger tracks across tha tho th freight yards will be removed the line from the Weber river west will be permitted to remain and will Till be used for the de delivery delivery delivery livery of freight to and from the th dif different different different ferent factories along that route In order to form torm the necessary connection between the old line Une and the freight yards the two large Ice fee houses of di f the tho Harriman system will have to be moved noved from their present location feet high It will have a smoke stack which will be seven feet at the bottom and four feet at the th top tap that will cost The building will Wm willbe willbe be of or concrete and steel construction and when completed power will be fur furnished furnished furnished for lighting heating he ting and running nning r the shops yards depot and other buildings and property 1 of q the Harriman system In Ogden The local roundhouse has been In Increased increased increased creased to ton a house Twenty renty of ot these that were formerly but sev seventy seventy seventy enty feet In depth have been to feet A new nw n set of smokestacks have been installed and the turntable has been heen enlarged d from to eighty feet I Two new ash pits have been built together with tracks leading to the same me The ap approximate approximate approximate proximate cost of these Improvements Improve and additions Is estimated at OOOO To the machine shops a 9 addition has been built and two fifteen ton cranes have been installed The transfer tables have been extended feet Tho cost of these Improvements 1 Is placed at A 4 lot of additional i machinery and up appliances will be added at a once making the shops the th most complete in the west New Commissary Building A new commissary building was sra com corn completed completed last spring This was erected ted at t a cost of and adjoins the union immediately on the south Corn Com Commenting immediately the work of building additional tracks fo the pad yards will wUl bo be taken up Much of ot the dirt excavated from the Sand SandRidge S nd Ridge cutoff was used for fillingin filling in for tor this work In all aU U eight or 01 ten tracks will be added Umbrella sheds will be built for the protection of pas passengers passengers in going to and from the trains The union depot has been entirely en IY re remodeled remodeled remodeled modeled at an expenditure of The waiting rooms have been enlarged as well as the baggage rooms and other othe er departments Tile floors have hav been put in and the building generally re ic rearranged rearranged arranged and equipped one of the best appointed app and largest st be between between between tween Chicago and the Pacific coast A new building for the exclusive use us ef of the telegraph department has been erected north of the depot building Viaduct Vlad ct Across Freight rd That 1 the year ear 1907 1967 will sIll bring biding even ever greater changes than did 1906 cannot be gainsaid Among the p proposed Im Improvements the one that will please the citizens of Ogden the most is leg Ing of ot the viaduct across the freight yards y at street This matter has been before the people for or oi years and has been the source so of much unfavorable comment and contention on their part The railroad yards at this particular point are arC ar especially esp cl busy and in addition to the great danger of accidents the delay to street s traffic has l ilS been the cause ause of much complaint Now the tho announcement Is made that the viaduct lad ct be constructed this year the work to commence comm the ear early early early ly spring 5 Claiming that excessive rates were being charged them the Harriman B eye ss system tern tem a few months ago acquired a water right in Taylors canyon to the east cast of the city ity at an expenditure expenditure of 60 I Work was commenced at once on I i the construction of ot a tc gravity water System From the reservoir in inthe inthe I the canyon nyon a pipe line will be con constructed constructed constructed to the railroad yards ards a die dis distance tance ta e of 67 miles wooden pipe Will vill be used us d from the Intake to a aI I point where t the c pressure pe ure will hot ex exI exceed I pounds and from I I that point through the city ch pipe will be put In This system will willI I II I furnish all the for the I system at this point It will cost the th I company approximately a mat IY New Freight Depot I Among the other proposed improve improvements I ments meats is a new freight depot to be I erected at street and Wall avenue This new ne structure will willbe willbe be one of the largest erected at any an station along the line and will eclipse anything of its kind in the Intermountain I tain tam country It will be erected in the heart of ot the warehouse district and i will be much more accessible than the present one Car shops and a store storehouse st storehouse re house are also al o to tob b J constructed along street on the railroad property pro erty A short time ago a on dollar corporation was organized to t cover a refrigerator service serite to embrace embr ce the entire Harriman system of rail railroads railroads railroads roads The name adopted by this thi cor corporation corporation is the Pacific Fruit Express company This company is organized for constructing ting and operating ventilated V ventilated and other refrigerator cars for the transportation of perishable freight fr ight The purpose Is said to jo be to avoid pay paying payIng paying ing of royalty on all refrigerator cars carsto carsto to either the Armour company or orthe orthe orthe the Continental Fruit Fruit Growers express which have hae had a monopoly on fhe refrigerator car service through throughout out the west It Itis Is proposed to erect large shops and there Is little doubt but that these will also be located at Ogden which is the most for such an Industry Pintsch Gas Plant PlantA A addition will bo built Quilt during the year to the Pintsch gas plant Ilant lo 10 located located here which furnishes nil all the th Pintsch gas used In the passenger cars running through this district The Thead ad addition ditton to this plant will Increase e Its lt capacity to cubic feet a day of hours At all points along the tee different lines additional side tracks are being put in into into Into to facilitate the handling of the heavy freight traffic East of Ogden the pre preliminary preliminary preliminary work looking toward the dour dou double ble tracking of the Union Pacific has been commenced The grading has been completed to Uintah station a adla dIg dis distance tance of seventeen miles and three t tr e thousand feet of track have h been laid At Carlin miles west on the South Southern stall round roundhouse roundhouse roundhouse ern em Pacific a new fifteen house and an au annex to the shops lo 10 located located I c ted there were built during 1906 1905 1 |