Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 26 | Railroad Business during 1920 Breaks Record with Thousands of Passengers

I HUD BUSINESS DING I 1820 BREAKS RECORD WITH I I TUSiDS OF PASSENGERS Importance of Ogden as Transportation Center Shown by Vast Number of Tourists and Other Travelers Passinp Through Terminal; Railroad Shops Are Among Largest in the West; Fifty-seven Passenger Trains Arrive Daily From Various Points; Interurban Electrics Do Big Business I I Ogden Is knoin In railroad circles us the railroad center of the west. Four steam roads and three electric lines enter Ogden from all points, east, w north and south of the city and thou-ands thou-ands and thousands of passengers are early visitors to Ogden en route to various placet of Interest During the' past year the railroads entering Ogden did a record business. Passenger records in particular were shattered. From January through the month of December the Southern Pa- iflc Hens alone curried un average of, 1500 passengers out of Ogden dally. It is estimated by experts thut on ioth electric and steam roads thai more than 700.000 passengers passed ! I through this city. These figures shatter all past records. rec-ords. Freight records wen a so tend. Hundreds and hundreds ofj trains laden Slth merchandise, food- J stuffs and other essentials arrived here from points over the entire United! States cn route to the western cities. 1 I Hoi SANDh OP fASSENG R6. During the month ot June and July IH hist year, an average of more than JO00 passengers dily puss, d through ' gdcn on the Union Pacific lines alone, the National Democratic - om entlon at, San Francisco and the Shrlners cou-centlon cou-centlon at Portland being given as reasons for the hcaw traffli during these months. Iocal railroad officials are elated over the prospects for business on ioth freight and passenger trains during dur-ing the present year. Although Ogden has been promisee-a promisee-a new depot by railroad officials for a number of years, the plans for the new UnlOQ Stationare' expected to materialize material-ize this year. The railroad shops operated here compare favorably with the best In the I nited States. More than "CO men are emnloyed at the local shops He-pair He-pair work for the entire Salt Lake division divi-sion of the Southern Pacific Is carried on at the local shops, while work for the other roads is also done m Ki. box ma. liox cars are being made at the Ogden Og-den terminal for use on the Southern Pacific. These cars will be placed In use nhortly after the first of March. Two hundred are being constructed. 'ffices for the Southern Pacific. Fnion Pacific and Utah-Idaho Central arc located in Ogden. Hundreds are employed by these roads In this line of endeavor. Trains for the south leave Ogden every hour on the half hour, while trains for the north on the electric line. le.ii- gvcrj three hours. Fifty-seven passenger trains dally! arrive In ' gden for various points. Improvements totaling $1,000,000 are to be made at the local terminal and on tho Lucln cutoff, according to lot a I railroad officials. These Improvements Improve-ments will consist of new equipment and materials for new road beds.. Ogden Is the railroad center of the west and with a good program mapped map-ped out for'this city during the present pres-ent year, the record established In ISL'O will, no doubt, be shattered H RAILROAD DINES Happily situated and economically located, ogden stands unique among cities of Its sl7.e In all this broad coun-i :ry in relation to railroad facilities. Probably there Is no other city of comparative com-parative slge that has as manv railroads rail-roads as Ogden. One can board a train at the I'nion I si it Ion for the four points of the com-I com-I pSM To go west, one takes the South -I em Pacific. I-'or eastltound passengers I there are the Union Pacific and !en- ver & Rio Orande. which also connect with trains to the southland. Then I there Is the Oregon Short Line for I . northern an. I northwestern points. 1 Going southwest one may board the, j Lk)s Angeles Limited, via the Arrow-1 f head route. Steam lines arc all of' .these, with electric lines connecting! , the small towns of the Immediate vicinity vici-nity within the stati and the southern section of Idaho. Another interurban.' ; the Llamberger Rlectrtc. connects with I tht "rem lines for Southern I'tah points. alii E As ADVERTISING 1 igdens advertising as spread by the , railroads in beyond estimation Along the ( nlon Pacific the passengers com- Ing .vest read 746 4 miles to Ogden 126 9 to Ogden etc.; through Nebraska W ) "mlng to Utah, the algnboards on 1 the stations are loudly proclaiming thai ogden is just ahead. Similarly, starling from San Fran-1 Cisco, the passenger as they start on 1 their trip eastward first see ugden'n ' name on ihe signboard in the Ken si building. Thousands of commut.-rs from surrounding ba towns see "O-den "O-den every day of the year. And then ' UU Signposts coming Into the city! Lgaln bear tho same legend, pointing SVer pointing to ( igden T).oUr mils of lourlsta pass I hrouah , Ogden every year. During the sum-1 1 mer, when Yellowstone park is open cores of sightseers stop off In Ogden1 j l2 V' a M tr'lJ fgden canyon. I ttai famous gorge of the west. Here! Is another source of widespread pub- I llclty that the railroads are Indlrectlv responsible for. " I Ogdcn's railroad shops rank in I edulpmsnt and quality of output with of the eountry's largest. Rebuilt' I engine., are put out at the local shops nnd one engine was completely built j All Of the steam lines radiate from the I nlon station as a center while ; the four Interurban lines have a com-1 mon station on Twenty-fourth street. I OO