Rails East to Ogden: Utah's Transcontinental Railroad Story
Author(s): Michael Polk; Christopher Merritt
Year: 2021
Summary
A largely unknown national treasure rests within a two-hour drive from Salt Lake City. Tucked into the sparsely populated western expanse of Box Elder County, Utah, the ghosts of the United States' first transcontinental railroad still haunt 87 miles of abandoned original railroad grade on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM}, National Park Service (NPS) and, to a lesser extent, private land.
Raymond and Pike's Rails East to Promontory: ELM-Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 8 (1981 and reprinted in 1994) laid the foundation for the archaeological study of the Transcontinental Railroad on BLM-Utah administered lands. Their study provided a masterful point of departure for Rails East to Ogden: Utah's
Transcontinental Railroad Story: BLM-Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 29. This new study exponentially increases historic research on one of the most important heritage resources on BLM-administered lands.
Cite this Record
Rails East to Ogden: Utah's Transcontinental Railroad Story, 1. Michael Polk, Christopher Merritt. Cultural Resource Series ,29. Salt Lake City, UT: Bureau of Land Management. 2021 ( tDAR id: 468002) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8468002
Keywords
Culture
Historic
General
Transcontinental Railroad
Geographic Keywords
Box Elder (County)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -114.03; min lat: 41.174 ; max long: -111.964; max lat: 41.8 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contributor(s): Michael Sheehan; Kenneth Cannon; Molly Boeka-Cannon; Nathan Thomas
File Information
| Name | Size | Creation Date | Date Uploaded | Access | |
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| RAILS_EAST_TO_OGDEN_FINAL.pdf | 383.75mb | May 18, 2021 | Dec 28, 2021 9:50:58 AM | Public |