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Show 1 1 Utah's Moving Railroad I ' ; ; ' Ui" , 4 v - - "The Railroad that Moves," might be the title of this feature. Keimecott Copper at its Utah Copper division at Bingham has the "movingest" railroad in the nation. Its 100 odd miles of stand- ard gague track around the terraces ter-races of the giant pit are continually contin-ually on the move. As mining progresses back on the mountain which is being whittled whit-tled away for its small metal con- tent, the standard gague railroad f track is constantly being "pushed around." Shown here are two workers on the small machine which literally picks up the track and places it where they want it to go. It is a unique operation of "picking 'em up and laying 'em down." The Kennecott's Utah Copper division, while primarily a mining operation, operates a fair sized railroad. Recently the entire system sys-tem was electrified and a new road bed built from the mine to the company's mills at Arthur and Magna at cost of some $12,000,000. |