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Show THE CITIZEN 7 " r road would succeed and that it would be but a short space of years until the cities of Salt Lake and Ogden would so grow that riding from dne to the other it would be difficult to know. where the one began and the other ended. i in ORIGINALLY asincorporated the Great Salt Lake and Hot Springs Railway the road for a few years stopped at the Springs, where a bathing resort and bicycle saucer race track Later the road was were built. reorganized under the name of the Salt Lake and Ogden Railway Company, and every few years 'brought a few miles extension. Finally Here Bountiful was , reached. summer resort known as Park became the popular a Eden playground for the Salt Lake Vale ley revelers and the heavy patron-agof picnickers and sight-seeadded revenue enough in the course of a few years to build on further. In 1907 the railroad developed to Farmington where a rich, piece of natural lake ground was partially drained and transformed into the garden spot now known as Lagoon. This resort soon became the recreation center of the state and led all others in popularity, it was attracting large holiday crowds vacationers who were making this resort the rendezvous for annual celebrations, Labor Day picnics, Fourth of July doings and other holidays and rs -- events.- - The success of this park to California greatly strengthened the earnings of the railroad and so fortified, Mr. Bamberger pushed on towards Ogden, which was reached in 1908. In 1910 electricity was adopted as an improved motive power, permitting faster and more frequent service at reduced cost, and the steam engines, especially those of the type that had given the road the name dummy line were abanwas doned. freight However, handled by steam until 1914 when electric locomotives for freight service were purchased and since that .A time all operations have been by electricity, although the way structures, bridges, culverts, underpasses, etc. are all of a concrete and permanent nature and capable, if occasion warranted, of carrying the standard heavy steam equipment used in this territory by transcontinental steam lines. In 1917, to accord with the popular nickname) Bamberger's folly, the line became officially known as the Bamberger Electric Railroad, no longer a folly but a substantial and most vital service. . 0 on and after May 15 Travel westward over the direct Overland Route, Tahoe (Lake Tahoe Line). From Truckee, visit Lake high in the Sierra. Then San Francisco; 9 trains daily from thereto Los Angeles. Return same way or via reduced fares: any of the routes covered by following Leo Angeleo . Los Angeles San Francisco one way via San Francisco return via Las Vegas $410.00 $47.50 both ways via I Sen Francisco San Francioeo direct via Reno circuit via Portland back to Salt Lake City $40.00 $62.15 Tickets on sale May 15 to September 30 good until October 32. 0 PRESS BANCROFT General Agent. 41 South Main St., Salt Lake City . Phone, Wasatch 3008 Wasatch 3078 . |