Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-16 | Page 1 | Order Placed for New Track in Yards Here

ORDER PLACED FOR NEW V TRAC IN YARDS HERE Will Vill Form Short Cut for Freight t Trains Is Belief The Utah Construction company Isto Is Isto Isto to build a new track to the west of ot the present system of the Ogden Union Railway I A Depot company which will wUl necessitate the building of another bridge across the Weber Web r river near where the viaduct and Wilson pane lane bridge span It according to In- In In Information formation given gI out today by W. W H. H and Warren L. L Wattle officers of the construction company Work on the project will begin im Im- immediately Immediately im- im immediately mediately and Is Id to be done under an anold anold anold old contract with the Oregon Short Line railroad This contract Is 15 termed a miscellaneous blanket agreement giving the railroad company the th privilege lege le e to assign the construction com com- company company company pany to do pieces of ot work at short notice It Is 15 thought that such uch a 11 track will wUl willbe willbe be used d to hasten hIlSten the movement of ot Oregon Short Line freight trains through the yards avoiding the com eom- complicated complicated ed between Twenty- Twenty first and Thirtieth streets It will wUl run west wt of the ice plant of ot the Pa Pa- Pacific PacIfic due Fruit Express it was said al although al- al although though the exact course could not be bs learned Construction will call ell for a good deal of ot grading Extension of ot the viaduct to the sand rIdge ot of West Ogden O den provides the depot company a wider area in fu extending westward It was Indicated today that the building of this track may be the forerunner to the building of adjoining No estimate of the cost of ot con con- construction c n- n was wu available 8