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Show ' MADE TRACK-LAYING RECORD Perfectly Ballasted Road Built In Eighty-Seven Dayt for the Late President Harding. At Cedar City, Utuh, on July 0, 1922, President Carl H. Gray of the Union Pacific Ilallroad company, with a broad vision and. sturdy courage, decided to construct a 35-mile branch line from Lund to Cedar City as the first Important Impor-tant step in opening a new scenic wonderland won-derland to the world. April 2 the first earth was moved in making grade; 70 days after, the first locomotive rolled into Cedar City over a new, uneven, unballasted almost temporary tem-porary track, suys the Suit Lake City Tribune. s. Seventeen days later, there came to Cedar City upon a well trimmed, neatly aligned, full rock-ballusted railroad of main line type the greatest train in all America the special carrying the President of the United States and his Alaskan party. . , , It was the completion of this railway v-' branch In 87 days, to the very top limit of a safe, smooth, solidly bul-lasted bul-lasted track, prior to the Presidents arrival In the West, that made his visit to Zlon National park possible. All Utah recognizes this fact, and Its citizens citi-zens extend this public appreciation to President Gray, his most able and efficient effi-cient staff of officers, engineers and construction men, whose loyalty and untiring energy, compressed within an unheard-of time limit, produced an almost al-most magica' accomplishment In the history of rallrd construction. j |
