Western Pacific in Utah. Index For This Page. Everything WP, East of Wendover. This page was last updated on December 1. Return To Western Pacific Index Page)Mile Posts. All WP mile posts west of Salt Lake City show two distances on the ICC valuation maps. One via Arnolds Loop, and another via . For example, Garfield was MP 9. Arnolds Loop and MP 9. Cut Off. A difference of 5. September 1. 90. 5During early September 1. Western Pacific began with the completion of three miles of grade where the new railroad crossed the existing Nevada Northern Railway, at a new station to be called Shafter. The work was being done by Utah Construction Company of Ogden, Utah. Tracklaying was to commence immediately. By noon 1,5. 00 feet had been laid. June 1. 90. 6'WP has laid three miles of tracks, from Salt Lake City to Buena Vista, where the company has completed a supply yard for construction materials and track laying supplies. During early July the tracklaying machine, recently assembled and now ready to go in the Salt Lake yards, will be put to work. Together with a force of 2. Greek, Italians and Austrians, the machine will lay one mile per day and will not let up for at least 1. By the end of August the company will have laid 4. November 8, 1. 90. Western Pacific's first timetable went into effect, covering only the trackage between Salt Lake City and Shafter, Nevada. There remained six miles that needed ballast, Golconda and Winnemucca. November 1. 1, 1. Planning and construction soon began on a better alignment with a maximum grade of one percent, which was completed in May 1. D& RG and WP built Salt Lake City Union Depot in Salt Lake City. Construction started in 1. Salt Lake City Union Depot & Railroad Co., incorporated on May 2. Jeff Asay, Track and Time, page 1. August 2. 2, 1. 91. Regular passenger service began between Salt Lake City and Oakland. The Western Pacific railroad, over which regular passenger traffic will commence on August 2. Gould system of roads westward from Salt Lake City to the Pacific coast. Please enter your mobile phone number Please enter a valid format (eg: (+1)-(02)-(34334343) country code-area code-tel number format) *. Use Caution and obey the spoiler signals!' Jaeger, contains plot and/or ending details of Pacific Rim and all its related media. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (reporting mark NWP) is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California. Its main line is 271 miles (436 km) long and. A comprehensive and regularly updated interactive map of the world's major submarine cable systems and landing stations. The Mystery of Amelia Earhart is examined using authentic research data. Explores the expressed knowledge and and claims of World War Two Veterans dating back to the. Its length is 9. 23 miles from this city to its terminal in Oakland. Starting from Salt Lake, the route is directly west to the shores of Great Salt Lake, where it skirts the shore as far as Timpie. It crosses the Nevada line near Wendover, passes through Winnemucca and Wells, Nevada, on to Sacramento, and from there to Oakland. Six divisions of the road have been established for purposes of operations, the Salt Lake division being from Elko to this city, 2. The road was practically completed some months ago and regular freight service was maintained all winter, but the opening to passenger traffic was delayed until August 2. WP's first regularly scheduled passenger train. The reorganized company did not have that limitation and construction of branchlines soon began. This forced the Union Pacific (LA& SL) and Western Pacific tracks to be relocated to the north along a new alignment. As part of the 1. West and Smelter station, the two railroads created a new station named Garfield as a connection to Utah Copper's railroad. This Garfield station remained in place until replaced by a new Garfield created in 1. UP moved its mainline again to allow expansion of the Kennecott tailings pond. WP completed a branch from Ellerbeck to limestone quarries at Dolomite and Flux. May 1. 3, 1. 91. 9WP received Utah PSC approval to close the agency at Low. Used primarily for water and feed shipments for sheep ranchers, along with occasional ore shipments. The agency was opened in 1. The documentation to support the AFE shows that there was a 1. WP/D& RGW and LA& SL/D& RGW crossing along 7. West and South Temple streets. The formal completion date for the line change was December 2. May 2. 0, 1. 95. 0. Salt Lake City and Oakland. The RDCs entered service on the first eastbound trip on September 1. September 1. 7, 1. They remained in service until October 2, 1. The RDCs replaced Train No. March 2. 0, 1. 94. September 1. 4, 1. The cars were test run in January 1. February, and were reported as being the first self- propelled, single- car diesel trains in service in the nation. The trains left Salt Lake City on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Although the RDCs did not have diner service, there were meal stops in Elko, Nevada and Portola, California. Staff, pages 4. 8, 4. See also: Diesel Locomotives of the Western Pacific, by Joseph A. Strapac, pages 4. There were three tenders from retired steam locomotives assigned to the service. The tender was filled with about four feet of water at Oakland, which was enough water for the steam generator for the entire trip between Oakland and Salt Lake City. The extra water was needed because the F3 diesel locomotive assigned to the train did not carry more than 2. Contrary to popular railfan rumors, the tender did *not* carry extra fuel for either the locomotive or the steam generator. The Royal Gorge, as WP trains 1 and 2, was a connection with D& RGW's Royal Gorge, also trains 1 and 2, which was discontinued on February 1. D& RGW's Prospector, trains 7 and 8, west of Grand Junction. On March 2. 2, 1. D& RGW's newly equipped Prospector went into service between Denver and Salt Lake City.(Read more about the D& RGW Prospector train)April 1. WP installed centralized traffic control (CTC) between Wendover and Pollard Junction in Salt Lake City (Pollard Junction was where WP freight trains turned south at about 1. South and 7. 00 West, to travel along D& RGW's main line to Roper Yard.) (Track and Time, Jeff Asay, page 1. WP employee Eastern Division timetable 5. April 2. 6, 1. 95. September 1, 1. 95. Western Pacific planned to start shipping loaded trailers on flat cars, known as . In that same year, WP started TOFC service, better known as . WP, along with GN and AT& SF, had started piggyback service between Seattle and Los Angeles via the Inside Gateway by way of Bieber, California, in 1. Competitors SP and UP joined Trailer Train in 1. WP's connecting road at Salt Lake City, D& RGW, joined in 1. The railroad was reported to have lost $2. The RDC was operated as WP train 1 and 2. The action was begun in 1. ICC took until 1. SP and AT& SF. Southern Pacific request for control of Western Pacific, 1. ICC Finance Docket 2. May 1. 96. 7WP and UP completed a line change to allow the construction of today's I- 8. Salt Lake City. Included was a new line for WP from about 1. West, paralleling UP's LA& SL line west to Gladiola Street, at about 3. West. WP's mainline was abandoned upon completion of the line change, which included a new location called . The original WP/LA& SL diamond crossing at Navajo Street was abandoned and the tracks between the new WP- UP Junction and Smelter, 1. As noted above, Jeff Asay wrote that the change was to put the WP and UP(LA& SL) lines west from Salt Lake City, on a common alignment in preparation for what today is I- 8. Cheyenne Street (about 1. West). With the common ownership of both UP and WP lines after the 1. WP- owned tracks before the ownership changed at the Jordan River, and the double crossover was moved several miles west to Orange Street, about a mile west of Redwood Road. Rio Grande, which also wanted out, was ordered to run its Denver- -Salt Lake City CZ link on a triweekly schedule; and Southern Pacific was permitted to reduce its Ogden- -San Francisco end of the City of San Francisco from daily to triweekly frequency. D& RGW and SP trains must connect between Salt Lake City and Ogden over what is at present freight- -only trackage of the former. Perlman became president of Western Pacific Railroad. By June 1. 7, 1. 97. January 1, 1. 97. R. Flannery had come to WP from Penn Central along with A. Perlman as Perlman's first Executive Vice President. July 2. 8, 1. 97. For many years, the line from Wendover to Salt Lake City was labeled as Western Pacific's Eighth (8th) Subdivision. The 8th Subdivision was eliminated when the consolidated employee timetable (WP/SN/TS) No. July 2. 8, 1. 97. Other consolidated timetables included: No. June 1. 1, 1. 97. Sub shown)No. 3, dated July 2. Sub shown as Elko to Salt Lake City, with additional stations at Garfield, Buena Vista, Industrial Center Spur and North Yard. No. 4, dated April 2. Sub shown as Elko to Salt Lake City).(Sources: emails from Thom Anderson and Bob Pecotich, October 5, 2. February 1. 6, 1. Western Pacific Railroad was sold to Newrail Company, Inc., a company organized by Western Pacific's management and officers, including the road's president and CEO R. Flannery, to buy the railroad from its parent holding company Western Pacific Industries, Inc. The parent company had announced in 1. The federal ICC approved the sale on January 2. The sale was approved by the railroad's shareholders on November 1, 1. Included in the sale was the assets and business of Western Pacific Railroad, Sacramento Northern Railroad, Tidewater Southern Railroad, and non- railroad subsidiaries Standard Realty and Development Corporation, Delta Finance Company and the WP Transport trucking company. April 4, 1. 97. 9The sale of the assets and liabilities (but not the stock) of Western Pacific Railroad to Newrail took effect. On the same day, Newrail changed its name to Western Pacific Railroad, and the previous railroad company controlled by Western Pacific Industries changed its name to Old. West. Co. WPI then owned only a railroad company with no assets. July 2. 4, 1. 97. A wreck at Mile Post 8. Low (MP 8. 66. 1. WP 3. 51. 6, 2. 01. The wreck was between two trains; a four- car EMR (Ellerbeck- Marblehead- Rowley) Local, and a set of four locomotives running light. The first pieces of equipment to have the new logo were 1. Portland, Oregon during November 1. The new logo was designed by Mark Gobe & Associates of San Francisco. UP had announced on January 8, 1. Western Pacific. September 1. UP and WP filed their request for UP control of WP with the federal ICC. The ICC accepted the application for merger and control on October 1.
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