Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-31 | Page 7 | Harriman Lines to Double Track

HARRIMAN LINES TO DOUBLE TRACK Executive Committee Votes to Make Improvements Totaling- $75,-000,000 $75,-000,000 .Southern Pacific to be Double Tracked From Ogden to San Francisco Oregon Short Line Included in ' the New Work. The executive committees of the Union Pacific aud Southern Pacific lines today in New York, voted to complete double tracking of tho lines from tho Missouri river to Sau. Fran-olsco. Fran-olsco. Thoy also voted to double track the O cgon Short Line from the Junction with the Union Pacific main line at Granger, Wyo., to Huntington, Oregon, also the line along tho Columbia Col-umbia river, In Oregon, to Portland. The cost of the double tracking of tho Hues, as determined upon today, will aggregate upwards of $75,000,000, which will be distributed over a period per-iod of five vears. a