Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-30 | Page 4 | Union Pacific Double Track

UNION PACIFIC DOUBLE TRACK. The Standard, after careful investigation, has reached the conclusion con-clusion that there is nothing to the Evan3ton-Ogden cut-off story as published in the Tribune Monday morning. The Salt Lake paper said a new route had been surveyed and accepted which would cut 15 miles from the Union Pacific between Evanstcn and Ogden and reduce re-duce the grade to 1 1-4 per cent or less. This remarkable reduction in mileage and gradient had been obtained by a route through Dutch Creek, including a 3,500-foot tunnel east of Huntsville. Though a road can be built through Ogden canyon, the route outlined is almost an impossibility. What the Union Pacific has-decided on is the building build-ing of a new double track out of Ogden, beginning two miles from the Union Depot and making a gradual grade to Gateway, 10 miles east of here. This new line will offer relief at a point where the heavy traffic demands that better facilities be obtained if a congestion conges-tion of traffic is to be avoided. An official of the Harriman road said this morning that this new piece of road has been under consideration some time and the decision to build it was reached because it has been looked upon as a necessity, the obtaining of which cannot be longer deferred. This means quite an active campaign of railroad construction almost within the boundaries of this city. The long-talked-of cut-off from the mouth of Weber canyon to Farmington is again revived by the Salt Lake papers, but men in a position to know state that the possibilities of its construction are far distant as no such piece of road, not an absolute necessity to the handling of trains, will be constructed while there is a stringency in the big money centers and other projects of vastly greater importance import-ance are calling for the railroad funds now available for new work. This Farmington cut-off included a tunnel 3,500 feet long and, no doubt, has been confused with some other survey and misplaced in Ogden canyon. When the double track on the Union Pacific out of Ogden is completed, the heavy trains will pass over a uniform grade of approximately ap-proximately one per cent, which will greatly facilitate tho moving of eastbound traffic.