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Show jINTERURBAN RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT IS IMMENSE GREAT EXTENSIONS MADE NORTH OF JUNCTION CITY " " " 1 A . I IV ' -Zt J f jj jj OGDEN LOGAN A IWHO BY. CO. I. J jjjj z ' r Tf " " f Om Barns. Repair 3ho3 ra if ' , . I I MT 1 Freight terminal and yards of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway comp any on West Seventeenth street. Tho entire fair grounds tract of thirty ' acres is utilized for this purpose, there being more than five miles of trackage. The total cost will be about $250, 000. j Nearly $2,000,000 Expended Expend-ed in the Year by Comprehensive Com-prehensive System. By W. E. ZUPPANN. MARKING the greatest strides ever made in electric railroad building for Utah in one year, the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Kail-way Kail-way company in 1915 expended nearly $2,000,000 in the building of interurban lines radiating from Ogden, together with terminal and station improvements and provision of necessary traffic facilities. fa-cilities. With this work being completed during dur-ing the cold weather months, the company com-pany has started its plans for an expenditure ex-penditure of at least a half million dol-lare dol-lare more for further improvements. Chief of tho improvements made during dur-ing the past year was the completion of the line between Brigham City and Preston, Idaho, linking up Cache Valley communities with the iuterurban system sys-tem that now extends half way through thp state. This brings a direct line from Ogden through Brigham, Wells-ville Wells-ville and Logan to Preston, a distance of. over ninety miles. The lino between Wellsvillc and Preston had been nearly completed in 1914, but it was necessary neces-sary to expend $200,000 on the trackage and grades this vear. In addition, the company spent $1500,000 in building the line from Brigham City to Wellsville. forming tho connecting 'link. The heavy traffic made it necessary to partially rebuild the line from Har'risville to Hot Springs, and this work of relaying steol brought an expenditure of about $30.-000. $30.-000. Straightening Line. Now that the lino has been completed, com-pleted, the task of straightening out the kinks in the line between Ogden and Brigham is being started and the company is expending this winter about $115,000 for the building of the first of theso cut-offs, from Ogden to Har-risville. Har-risville. The plans for next year call for the cut-off from Hot Springs to Brigham Citv, for which right of way is now being purchased at, a cost of about. $30,000. This cut-off will cost not less than $400,000, according to the most recent estimates P. D. Kline, general manager of the company, in discussing the plans for this work, said recently that it is the plan of the electric railway builders to keep the old line in operatiou between be-tween Brigham City and Willard, giving giv-ing service to the people living along the county highway. Likewise service will be maintained over the old line leading out from Ogden to the Utah Hot Springs, and it is not improbable that there will be three different electric elec-tric routes over which this one resort can be reached. Work in Canyon. The cost of construction work on the Ogden valley line, from Idlcwild in Ogden Og-den canyon to the town of lluntsville. was $175,1100. This work was especially especial-ly expensive because of the necessity of cutting away some of the rock cliff's of the canyon and also filling across low places just above the Utah Light & Traction company power dam. While the cost of building the line from Brigham City to Preston was one of the chief expenditures, the equipment equip-ment for the new electric route was secured during the year and 'amounted to a heavy investment. Two electrical substations were purchased and placed in operation, one at Dewey-ville Dewey-ville and the other at Utah Hot Spring's, at an approximate cost of $35,000 for each station. The company also secured se-cured a portable substation "on an all-steel all-steel car, which is used for emergency purposes or to assist in the location of permanent .substations when conditions so require. This station complete was purchased for $20,000. The company built depots at Preston, Lewiston, Richmond, Hyrum and Wellsville, Wells-ville, as well as 'placing railroad yards and a depot at Brigham, costing $4500 each. These buildings are of fireproof construction, built of ccrcrete and brick, and are provided wi:h facilities for handling passenger, freight and express ex-press traffic. In addition there are living liv-ing rooms in each station for the agents. Some Big Cars. Purchases have been made of twelve sixty-five-foot all-steel electric motor cars, costing $13,500 each, and six sixty-five-foot all-steel trailers, costing $9500 each. Two fifty-ton electric locomotives, locomo-tives, all-steel construction,, were bought for $15,000 each, and are used between Preston and Ogden. . Ground has been . purchased foT a freight house and freight yards at Logan, Lo-gan, the expenditure being $40,000. Plans and specifications have been completed com-pleted for a new and modern passenger passen-ger station in the same city-, for which ground will be broken as soon as weather conditions will permit. This station will represent an investment of about $20,000. Ground has been bought for the freight yardage in Preston and Brigham, this property alono costing $15,000. In addition to this work, the company has installed industrial spurs at all the smaller cities and towns through which the line is operated, this costing approximately approx-imately $5000 for each town. These switches and spurs became necessary becausc of the heavy freight business handled by the. company. The freight- traffic facilities have been largely increased by the addition of a number of cars during the year, the equipment being bought for ' approximately ap-proximately $3S.500." This list of cars includes twenty-five dump cars for handling sugar beets, twenty-five box cars, fifteen coal cars and twelve flat cars. Express Business. Miscellaneous minor improvements made, it is estimated, cost about $50,000, this including expenditures for betterments better-ments in Ogden, Logan and Brigham. Completion of the electric railway lines has brought not only extension of the freight and passenger service, but also the upbuilding of a fast express service, the company contracting with the Wells-Fargo Express company for handling such traffic on all regular cars over the north and-south line. The greatest improvement work now under way in Ogden is the upbuilding of the freight terminal facilities fer the interurban lines, tlio company ha -i n tr purchased thirty acres of the old liner-mountain liner-mountain Fair association grounds on West Seventeenth street as the site for the. freicht yards, shops and other build ings. This site is located on the ri edge of the new main line, which is 1c ing built from Seventeenth street and Lincoln avenue in a northwesterly di- ; j rection to Harrisville. It is also so located that the traffic, from Huntsville, North Ogden, Plain Citv and other sections sec-tions can easily be diverted to the freight yards. I In the southeastern part of this tract the company is now- building a number i of structures, the contract for which has been let to Charles Dinsmore. These include the ear barns, built of concrete j and steel, ninety feet, in width and 330 j feet long. The building has a concrete foundation, brick and steel superstruc-I superstruc-I turo with asbestos roofing in fact, all j of the structures aro alike in so far as material is concerned. The machine and . blacksmith shop has dimensions of 125 I by 140 feet, the carpenter shop has the , same ground space as the paint shop, both being 40 by 100 feet. The heat-, heat-, ing plant covers ground space of 40 by -10 feet, Freight Yard Begun. The installation of an electric transfer trans-fer table, between the various shops, has also been arranged, this making necessary the placing of A concrete foun dation thnt covers S5 by ISO feet of ground space. Work on the freight yards lias been started, and when the trackage is entirely en-tirely completed there will be about five miles of electric lines in the yards, a half mile being under cover. Seventy-five Seventy-five men are being constantly employed in rushing this freight terminal to completion. com-pletion. Another crew is working on the Og-den-Harrisvillo cut-off, which is to become be-come the main line in a brief time. This line extends for four miles. The company is at present purchasing the right of way for the cut-off that changes the location of Utah Hot Springs to Brigham City. This right of way will cost about $50,000, and it is estimated that this new line will cost approximately $400,000. Building of this cut-off, installation of freight yards in several communities, erection of the passenger station at Logan Lo-gan and general betterments of the city lines will cost considerably over a half million dollars during 1916, according to present anticipations. |