CP-UP Junction Promontory to Ogden
From: "Kyle Wyatt" kylekwyatt@gmail.com
I am trying to pin down just when the interchange between the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific moved from Promontory to Ogden. The schedule from December 2, 1869 seems pretty clearly to show the junction at Promontory. By December 29 it looks more confused, with part of the schedule indicated Ogden, and sleeping cars listing Promontory. Other indications suggest the transition date may have been Jan 1, 1870.
Does anyone have any articles form more local papers, such as Ogden or Salt Lake City?
—Kyle
I am trying to pin down just when the interchange between the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific moved from Promontory to Ogden. The schedule from December 2, 1869 seems pretty clearly to show the junction at Promontory. By December 29 it looks more confused, with part of the schedule indicated Ogden, and sleeping cars listing Promontory. Other indications suggest the transition date may have been Jan 1, 1870.
Does anyone have any articles form more local papers, such as Ogden or Salt Lake City?
—Kyle
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 11:44 AM
4 Comments:
From: "Wendell Huffman" WHuffman@nevadaculture.org
Subject: RE: CP-UP Junction Promontory to Ogden
The US Pacific Railway Commission testimony (p 4748) has December 6.
—Wendell
From: "NewCastle, AltaCal'a" caliron@att.net
Subject: Promontory Branch
I suggest that the purchase of the Promontory Branch by the CPRR was hastened by the following joint resolution of the US Congress:
"The common terminous of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads shall be at or near Ogden; and the Union Pacific Railroad Company shall build, and the Central Pacific Railroad Company pay for and own the railroad from the terminus aforesaid to Promontory Summit, at which point the rails shall meet and connect and form one continous line."
This resolution also gave the President authority to withhold bond issuance until a first class road was completed.
16 US stats 56-57, 41st Congress, 1st session, March 4-April 10, 1869.
—G J Chris Graves, NewCastle, Cal.
From: "Larry Mullaly" lmullaly@jeffnet.org
Re: CP-UP Junction Promontory to Ogden
... the enclosed correspondence from Collis Potter Huntington ... contains some interesting detail but no smoking gun. The [December 1869 Ogden Junction] map I find particularly interesting. I believe there is more correspondence in the CPH microfilm for the period Dec-January that may help ...
—Larry
From: "Kyle Wyatt" kylekwyatt@gmail.com
Many thanks, Larry. Lots of good material there.
—Kyle
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