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Show I Sites of s. p. - SHOPSJMOeDEN Supt. Campbell Has Article in j Railroad Bulletin on Local Shops The September Issue of 1 The Bui" I lctln." monthly publication of the Southern Pacific railroad features the Salt Lake division r'hotoprauhs of the I,ucin Cutofr, Bird Island. Mldlake station and other tourist feature" together with an Intercstine story by H. A Campbell. superlnendent of H the Bait I-ike division Jj' Id his article Mr. Campbell fald I 'in the Bait Lake division in the V Mechanical department, while wo can-I can-I not lay claim to the larcest shops In I the I'aclfic System family, we are fortunate In having two of the most 1 Important and bi-st equlDUcd Division I shops on the Pacific Svstem. These . shops arc conveniently located on (ISSVL . It ho- Ar,A nf Ihi. Mull I , ji- flvlsiOn. Iriamelv at I'gdrn. I 'ah and Spark-" '.ada. Thcv are fullv coulpped with modern machinery and aoollances end .irf growing rapidly in keeping with the surrounding territory OIDKIt OP TWO Ogden fhop Is the older of the two. originating in December 31. 13. which was the urlglnal date when m wer was turned on and first unit of machinery placed In operation Formerly Form-erly what Shop facilities were furnlsh-ed furnlsh-ed the I a-t end of the Central Pacific railroad at that time were located at T rrace. L'tah, on the north end of the vi m ircat Suit Lake, now v. hat Is known as the old line. December 31, 1893 was a gala day for the cltv of Ogdrn 8. in opening shops and was ushered i" by a celebration which Included stat--and i lt. representatives, Also leading railroad officials "Fortunatel) gden shops, which ere located on commodious grounds. 1 within one-half mile of the heart of the city and main business portion, is easy of ac-ess and pleasantly located j 1 for all purposes, plenty of room for expansion as netssltv reoulres and surrounded by other manufacturing 'A W oncerns, but not too far from tho I residential section maklne It of easy I access for employes comln? to and f from their work This In a great ad- . r vantage, aa it does not require shop trains, electric cars or other means of transportation to and from work and is appreciated by the employes, RjJl H s BUILDINGS I "Beginning with one building which a: first contained all of tho machlner installed at this point, Ocdcn shops have grown to include nine large well ventilated shop building, including a thirty-four stall roundhouse modern i up to date power house, office buildings build-ings and an emergency hospital Ogden shop buildings now contain all classes of machine and shop tools found In any well regulated modern plant and . apatite of handling a larce amount of repair work and averaglo- a monthly output of locomotives for different classes of repairs as follows General Repairs Nine. Heavy Repairs Six. Light Repairs Ten engines ( r month. LARGE PAX ROLL As an asset to the community thirteen thir-teen hundred men are steadily employed em-ployed at Ugden shops with a pay roll averaging i 1 70,000 00 per month un- ii uer me oiq rates, wnien win now oe ' ' consldorab! increased under the rates JH applying due to the late decision of II the Railroad Labor Board. Tho gden Terminal facilities also i j. handle a Joint business for the South- JUu ern Pacific, Union Pacific and Oregon HP Short Line Railroads, averaging eight- , L hundred engines n r month 'Ogden shops have their own electric elec-tric lighting plant, which furnishes jn' power for all shop bullditiKs. also Og-1 den Union Terminal facilities and power for operattngbloek signals between be-tween 'gden and the east end ot th Great Salt lake trestle. LOCOMOTIVE 003 STRl" CTION ' While no general scheme of constructing con-structing locomotives on the bait Lake Division has been Inaugurated ogden shop has constructed two heavy consolidation con-solidation locomotives, which were V built during IS 19 and arc now in serv- j i' on this division and have made a -l'l ndid record ojb to efficiency and ,ue prepared to do an amount of , construction work that circumstances sparks shops are of a later con-yj con-yj BtTUCtlon than those at Ogden, having been constructed and placed In service BJuH during August, 1&04. Shoo facilities previously having been located at Wadsworth, Nevada, where repairs to locomotives and equipment on that part of tho division had previously Sjj been taken care of. Sparks shops are admirably located a few miles east of Reno and have jMHk . commodious grounds and shop bulld- r" ink's, so located that an unlimited ex pansion of shop facilities may be effected ef-fected In the future at the lowest possible pos-sible expense All modern machinery shop tools and other facilities are found located at Sparks, which Js a model railroad terminal "While the forces at 9park6 are not as large as those at Kden shops, they Include between eight hundred and fifty and nine hundred men with I monthly pay roll of $1 16.000 00.' |