Newspaper Items
Oregon Short Line Railroad
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19 February 1881
Item on new Oregon Short Line; also mentions what appears to be the present
Union Pacific take-over of the Kansas Central. (Pitchard, The Blackfoot Register, 19 February 1881)
26 March 1881
Item from the Salt Lake Herald, on the Oregon Short Line. (Pitchard, The Blackfoot Register, 26 March 1881)
11 October 1882
The Oregon Short Line is about completed between Granger and McCammon; the line
north to Pocatello has not yet had the third rail added to it. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 October 1882)
17 October 1882
The Oregon Short Line track running some 45 miles west of Pocatello, built in
advance of the arrival of the standard gauge line, was built to narrow gauge,
and is now about to be widened to the standard. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 17 October 1882)
1 November 1882
It is evident that by this date the Oregon Short Line is receiving materials
over the standard gauge line from Granger, rather than up the narrow gauge line
from Ogden, as heretofore. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 November 1882)
14 December 1882
The Oregon Short Line has issued its first timetable. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 14 December 1882)
21 December 1882
The Pullman sleeper 'Oriole' is in service on the O. S. L. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 21 December 1882)
1 January 1883
The O.S.L. runs on the U&N, McCammon to Pocatello, about 22 miles. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1883)
23 February 1883
"The Oregon Short Line passenger coaches are beginning to arrive." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 23 February 1883)
27 February 1883
Doddridge, General Superintendent of both U&N and OSL, has just had a
special car built at Omaha - gauge not specified but appears to be for OSL use.
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 27 February 1883)
10 March 1883
City Gleanings: "The station at Shoshone, the present terminus of the
Oregon Short Line railroad, and the junction of the Wood River branch, was
opened today for all business connected with the road." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Evening Chronicle, 10 March 1883)
28 October 1883
"Ten more new engines…" ordered for the Oregon Short Line. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 28 October 1883)
13 February 1886
Depot and other buildings at Montpelier, Idaho, burned to the ground. (Pitchard, Ogden Herald, 13 February 1886)
1 January 1887
In Pocatello on the oSL, the U. P. built a new depot, two stories, 50x100, cost
of $10,945; the Pacific Hotel was raised one floor, and other improvements made
$6,000 spent there; six tenement houses built at cost of $6,508; a storehouse
of 30x75 cost $1,500. (Pitchard, Salt
Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1887)
6 February 1887
The Oregon Short Line has just received the new steam snow plow, referred to
some weeks ago in the Tribune, when ordered from Paterson, New Jersey. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 6 February 1887)
27 August 1888
OSL's Pocatello freight office and sheds burned, at about 2:00am this date; a
total loss. As there was no wind, no other buildings burned. (Pitchard, The Utah Journal, Logan, 27 August 1888)
17 March 1897
"Mr. Dunn [J. F. Dunn, Superintendent of Motive Power & Machinery,
Oregon Short Line] has decided upon the renumbering of the locomotives by
classes. The former Union Pacific 500 class will now be changed to 200; the 700
to 300; the 900 and 1000 classes to 400; the 800 to 500; and the 1400 to
600." "Those of the Union Pacific 400 class are on the Shoshone
sidetracks and will not be repaired. In this class are the 437 and 436, many
years ago the 10 and 11 of the Utah Central…" (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 17 March 1897)
19 March 1897
The Oregon Short Line is painting its passenger cars in 'a dark Van Dyke
brown'. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 19 March 1897)
23 March 1897
Item reports that E. E. Calvin drove the first spike on the old O.S.L. at
Granger on 11 July 1881, and that this bit is in a letter from Granger
published in the Salt Lake Tribune of 12 July 1881. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 23 March 1897)
1 April 1897
The first locomotive repainted and renumbered by the OSL is old 734, now 308. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 April
1897)
3 April 1897
O.S.L. coach #110 came out of the shops yesterday, painted in the Van Dyke
brown color, with Roman lettering and numbers in gold leaf. Coach #121, having
received the same treatment, comes out of the shop today. #110's first use was
on the train to Juab. (Pitchard, Salt
Lake Daily Tribune, 3 April 1897)
15 April 1897
In the OSL engine department, 731, is now 308; 589 is now 214; and the big 843 will
soon be the 400. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 15 April 1897)
6 June 1897
OSL Timetable No. 1, effective 12:05am this date; printed by the Tribune's job
printing office. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 6 June 1897)
20 August 1897
Item that says OSL 101, 102 and 103 were 437, 435 and 436, and before that 8, 9
and 10, respectively. (Pitchard, Salt
Lake Daily Tribune, 20 August 1897)
22 September 1897
The Oregon Short Line has built new business car No. 5 at the shops in Salt
Lake City; now they have cars 1, 2, 3 and 5; the 4 will be built soon. Item
also says they have three half-length cars (1, 2, and 3), with the 5 being the
first big car. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 22 September 1897)
16 October 1897
The OSL has painted up the 437 with No. 102; the builder's plate, still on the
engine, apparently, says she was built by Schenectady in 1880. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 16 October 1897)
13 November 1897
The OSL has purchased two switch engines, 107 and 108, from the Montana Union;
the 107 is here and the 108 in Pocatello. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 13 November 1897)
25 January 1898
The 'Railway Age' printed a half-tone (picture) of No. 800, one of the O.S.L.'s
new Cooke engines. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 25 January 1898)
30 January 1898
"Mountains and Coast" column: "O.S.L. at Pocatello" - it is
stated that the shops there are building two locomotives, to a six-coupled
design by Master Mechanic J. F. Dunn; boilers and frames were bought in the
East, but the rest is being made at Pocatello. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 30 January 1898)
30 January 1898
Car No. 3 was in the O.S.L. yards last night; it is the new No. 3, being the
old No. 31 of Pocatello, and is now going to Leamington with the Lake
Bonneville party. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 30 January 1898)
13 February 1898
Reference to OSL timetable No. 4, apparently recent issue. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 13 February 1898)
6 March 1898
Specifications of O.S.L. engines 800 and 801 - 21x28" cylinders, 51"
drivers, 185psi, BP, and weight of 271,000 pounds. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 6 March 1898)
26 March 1898
Another reference to the two locomotives built at Pocatello; one of them was in
Salt Lake City the other day - they are the first ones built by the O.S.L., and
are highly regarded. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 26 March 1898)
2 November 1898
The OSL is repairing its postal 304, baggage 501 and coach 121. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 2 November 1898)
22 November 1898
O.S.L. #802 now being built by Cooke.
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 22 November 1898)
16 December 1898
"Engine No. 802 was finished for the Oregon Short Line on Monday and left
Paterson, N.J., for the West. It will arrive in about a week." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 16 December 1898)
1 January 1899
Review of 1898: The O.S.L. bought 17 engines. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1899)
17 January 1899
Ten new Pullman cars for O.S.L. service: Alcazar, Alcade, Algonquin, Alameda,
Altamont, Alpine, Alexis, Algeria, and Alcatraz. Cars are ,12 section, 1
drawing room and 1 smoking room, and are intended for the Chicago-Portland run. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 17 January 1899)
27 February 1899
There was a conductor on the O.S.L. who apparently had a flair for sending
poetical reports of difficulties; this one made the papers:
"Engine 503 cut
up a caper,
Two miles south of Draper.
It's nothing new, she burst a flue,
Engine is dead & can't get through."
The poetic fellow was Will Havenor. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 27 February 1899)
7 March 1899
Jacob Blickensderfer died 28 February 1899 at his farm near Lebanon, Missouri,
at age 83. Began working with the U.P. in the early 1860's. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 7 March
1899)
7 March 1899
Engine 802 on the OSL has an extension front end and a straight stack, the only
engine so equipped on the OSL. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 7 March 1899)
21 March 1899
OSL engines 750-757, ten wheelers, about to be received; have 20x28"
cylinders and 57" drivers. Cooke build. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 21 March 1899)
28 March 1899
The O. S. L. is removing the platforms from mail and baggage cars. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 28 March 1899)
28 March 1899
Tuesday; first two engines of 720 class left Paterson on Saturday for the O. S.
L. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 28 March 1899)
1 April 1899
"Turtleback 551, from Pocatello, a switcher bought from the Montana Union,
is in the Salt Lake shops for repairs." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 April 1899)
3 April 1899
Two of 8 new 700 class engines for the O. S. L. left Paterson on Sunday, March
26th, and are expected in Pocatello by April 9th. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 3 April 1899)
1 May 1899
"New Engines are Beauties," being four of the eight due for the
Oregon Short Line. They are numbered 720 through 723, built by Cooke, and came
out in charge of M. J. McDonald, who is now setting them up for service.
Labeled as being ten-wheelers, with 28x30" cylinders and 58" drivers.
The item also discusses some of the older engines, such as 316, which was
previously Utah Central Railway #3, and which has now been brought from storage
at Shoshone to Pocatello to be scrapped. The O.S.L. has in service eight engines
32 years old, being numbers 202 through 207, 213 and 214, all of which were
built in 1867; the 203, 204 and 213 are the oldest of the old, having been
built in April of 1867. (Pitchard, Salt
Lake Daily Tribune, 1 May 1899)
5 May 1899
"First Car Finished" OSL mail car 311 has had its platform removed,
now making it 60'10" over end sills, and it is painted a rich Van Dyke
brown, lettered in gold leaf. 'Chicago - Portland Special' is on the center of
the letterboard, with 'Oregon Short Line' in smaller lettering at the ends of
the letterboard, same as on the Union Pacific and related lines. All head-end
cars are to be so rebuilt and painted. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 5 May 1899)
8 May 1899
Oregon Short Line engine #720 visited Salt Lake City yesterday, being brought
down from Pocatello for the locals to view. While always referred to as 'ten
wheeler,' these engines seem in fact to be of the 2-8-0 pattern, as are freight
engines. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 8 May 1899)
9 May 1899
The Oregon Short Line is planning to rebuild four of the 600 series engines (of
which there are 42) to fast passenger engines, with 26" stroke and
62" drivers. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 9 May 1899)
10 May 1899
Robert Blickensderfer left the Union Pacific on June 1st, 1895; on September
1st, 1895 he became General Superintendent of the Wheeling .& Lake Erie;
and was appointed Receiver thereof on 15 January 1897, and is now to be
president of the reorganized W. & L. E. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 10 May 1899)
22 May 1899
The Oregon Short Line is building 40-ton capacity coal cars, matching RGW's new
#1201 -- OSL's #5000 built last fall, and the #5001 is about to come out. The
road is also getting 250 box cars, of 30 ton capacity, and numbered in the 8000
series. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 22 May 1899)
31 May 1899
The Oregon Short Line has added a new pile driver, #621, from the Industrial
works, Bay City, Michigan. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 31 May 1899)
12 June 1899
The O. S. L. has begun to put automatic couplers on the pilots of its engines. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 12 June
1899)
22 June 1899
Garfield Beach opens today for the season.
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 22 June 1899)
4 July 1899
"M. J. McDonald of the Cooke Locomotive works has returned to Paterson, N.
J. His next visit west will be to accompany a number of new consolidation
engines to the Short Line."
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 4 July 1899)
5 July 1899
The OSL loaned engine No.208 to the Salt Lake & Los Angeles for yesterday's
traffic. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 5 July 1899)
8 July 1899
OSL's 720 class of engines have all been received. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 8 July 1899)
16 July 1899
The OSL's Salt Lake shops have turned out their engine 1029, as Boise, Nampa
& Owyhee engine #3, named 'Col. W. H. Dewey'. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 16 July 1899)
9 August 1899
"Short Line's New Engines" are briefly summarized; eight of the 720
class are now running; eight of the 750 class are in transit; and seven of the
900 class and four of the 1000 class are now being built by Cooke, at Paterson,
New Jersey. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 9 August 1899)
23 August 1899
Two of 750 class engines have arrived at Pocatello. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 23 August 1899)
4 November 1899
An item says that the first timetable on the Oregon Short Line (the old
original company) was in effect 14 March 1883, covering Granger to Shoshone
only. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune,
4 November 1899)
10 December 1899
Pullman private car 'Mascot' has been bought for the use of the Horn Silver
Mining Co. directors and OSL Utah Division superintendent. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 10 December 1899)
1 January 1900
"S. H. Dunning, representing the Cooke locomotive works, is back at
Pocatello, where he will superintend the breaking-in of the four new 1000 class
engines just received by the Short Line. These engines are of the same type as
the 900's, but are much larger in their dimensions." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1900)
1 January 1900
A new depot has been built at Kaysville by the O.S.L., one block to the south
of the old one, which puts it at the foot of Maple Street. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1900)
6 January 1900
"The weight of the new 1000- and 900-class engines, with loaded tender is
301,000 pounds (150 1/2 tons), as against 70,000 pounds (35 tons), the weight
of No. 2 narrow gauge, or 63 tons for No. 100, the lightest broad-gauge. The
increased weight represents the advances made in railroading in thirty years,
No. 100 being of the year 1870, and No. 1000 of 1900." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 6 January 1900)
13 March 1900
"The Railroad Gazette devotes a column with half-tone cut, of the 903, the
new Oregon Short Line 100-ton freight engine." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 13 March 1900)
4 April 1900
"The Oregon Short Line will have 18 new passenger cars from the Pullman
works the last of this month."
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 4 April 1900)
12 April 1900
"The Short Line's new passenger cars will all be here this week." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 12 April 1900)
14 April 1900
"The Railway Age has illustrations and descriptions of the new 900 and
1000 class engines of the Oregon Short Line." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 14 April 1900)
22 April 1900
Oregon Short Line timetable #12 in effect today. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 22 April 1900)
25 April 1900
"The Oregon Short Line 1002, new consolidation locomotive, is pictured and
described in the Railroad Gazette."
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 25 April 1900)
9 May 1900
The O.S.L. has just received from Pullman seven new passenger coaches, two of
which are for the Cache Valley branch run.
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 9 May 1900)
19 May 1900
O.S.L. timetable #13 went into effect on 13 May - and this is too many 13's for
some of the boys! (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 19 May 1900)
8 June 1900
"Engine 650, one of the older, heavy freighters on the Oregon Short Line,
has been rebuilt in the Pocatello shops. It is now a fast passenger, with a
69-inch driver and increased stroke, and equipped with extensive front and
straight stack. The mechanical work has been very fine, and the engine is being
tried, with success. Other 600's will be similarly changed." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 8 June
1900)
8 June 1900
"The Oregon Short Line's new passenger equipment, three diners, two mail
and three baggage cars, have left the shops." "The mail and baggage
cars have the stub vestibule to conform with the full vestibule, but at the
same time saving length by not having platforms." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 8 June 1900)
11 June 1900
"The Coupler Fight" over the Sams coupler. After 1 August 1900 the
Union Pacific will NOT accept as an automatic coupler on cars of foreign roads
- and most of the RGW's cars are equipped with the Sams coupler. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 June
1900)
19 June 1900
O.S.L. #650 (see 8 June) is in town, "just to look down on 102, 210, 300
400 and the other little old-timers,…" (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 19 June 1900)
29 June 1900
Oregon Short Line engine #650 was "totally demolished" in a head-on
collision at Medbury, Idaho, yesterday morning. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 29 June 1900)
11 July 1900
O.S.L. timetable #14 in effect today.
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 July 1900)
30 July 1900
A Union Pacific inspection special is in town, with engine 836 and business
cars 04, 013 and 014. (Pitchard, Salt Lake
Daily Tribune, 30 July 1900)
21 August 1900
"Business car No. 6, formerly the Mascotte, is soon to emerge from the
Short Line shops in a new dress." (see item under 10 December 1899)
"Going through Beaver Canyon many grades of the old Utah & Northern are
seen, relics of a famous narrow gauge."
(Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 21 August 1900)
16 October 1900
"The Oregon Short Line has under consideration again the broadening of the
gauge of the Garfield branch but nothing has been decided upon as yet. The
matter was brought and seriously considered last spring, but when the Saltair
people paid the Short Line $4,500 to keep Garfield closed, the latter dropped
all plans for bettering the line and resort." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 16 October 1900)
8 November 1900
O.S.L. timetable #16 in effect 12:05am today. (pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 8 November 1900)
25 January 1901
"Officials in a Wreck" on the O.S.L. - Sup't. J. H. Young of the Utah
Division and others hurt slightly when a Southern Pacific train hit O.S.L. car
6 this morning in the Ogden yard. Car 6 was formerly the Pullman
"Mascotte," and it will take several weeks to repair the car, the
expense of which is to be borne by the S.P. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 25 January 1901)
11 February 1901
Item on new Baldwin compound engines, on the OSL, in the 950 series; says that
it has been 20 years since the road got any new Baldwin engines, and "The
last lot has but two representatives left the 11 and the 21, now in service on
the narrow-gauge Garfield Branch,…" (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 February 1901)
15 February 1901
The Oregon Short Line has received:
-- Eight Baldwin compound engines, and same are in service; George Bloomingdale brought them out from Baldwin.
-- A steam wrecking crane, same as the one got last year, from Industrial Works, Bay City. It is of 40 ton capacity, and will be assigned to Lima, Montana.
-- Five new switch engines arrived and en route from Cooke; numbers 560-564, two are for Salt Lake City, one for Pocatello, and the other two are for Kemmerer. S. H. Dunning is at Pocatello, from Cooke, to set up the new engines. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribunel 15 February 1901)
18 February 1901
Two old O. S. L. engines of the 600 series being rebuilt at the Pocatello
shops, having Richmond compound cylinders installed, etc. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 18 February 1901)
18 February 1901
OSL received yesterday 15 new cabooses from AC&F, numbers 680-694. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 18 February 1901)
18 February 1901
"Performance of New Engines." comments upon the relative merits of
several classes of O.S.L. motive power - the 1898 600 class, the 1899 720
class, the 1900 900 class, and the 1901 950 class, which last are the new
engines referred to above, from Baldwin. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 18 February 1901)
22 February 1901
Two of the new O.S.L. switch engines have arrived in Salt Lake, they being
numbers 576 and 587; yesterday. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 22 February 1901)
5 April 1901
"Buys Utah & Pacific" is the header of an item dated at New York
on the 4th; the Oregon Short Line has exercised its option, and bought the 25%
of Utah & Pacific stock held by McCune; also bought the 24% held by Eccles,
Nibley and others. Eccles, in interview, said that the O.S.L. did not own any
stock before this, but held options on that noted above, as well as an option
on the 51% of the road's stock held in escrow, which 51% the O.S.L. has also
bought, giving them 100% of the Utah & Pacific stock issue. The O.S.L. did
have some $279,000 in Utah & Pacific bonds, which it took as payment for
rails and equipment delivered to the U&P. Yesterday, the O.S.L. bought an
additional $393,000 in U & P bonds. The stock is given as being 8,250
shares, all of which is now owned by O.S.L. A brief history of the Utah &
Pacific says that the road was chartered on 19 August 1898, construction began
in September of 1898 and was completed in May of 1899. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 5 April 1901)
30 April 1901
OSL Mechanical Superintendent J. F. Dunn has gotten out a pictorial history of
OSL motive power; among the photos are narrow gauge No. 1, new engines of the
900, 1000 and 1100 classes, and so forth. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 30 April 1901)
17 July 1901
" … and at Garden City are sidetracked narrow-gauge equipments. all
being relics of a past activity." Last line of an item on OSL track
relocation in regards to the Leamington cutoff line. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 17 July 1901)
11 August 1901
OSL engine 103 scrapped at Pocatello; was built by Taunton in 1868; the item in
the Tribune cribbed from the Pocatello 'Advance'. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 August 1901)
11 September 1901
The Oregon Short Line offices burned to the ground yesterday; but the records,
etc., were in the vaults and locked., so survived the blaze. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 11 September 1901)
13 May 1902
Mr. Ashton hopes that the new standard gauge line, the Leamington cut-off, will
be done by August, so that the narrow-gauge can be torn up. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 13 May
1902)
1 January 1903
Review of 1902: O. S. L. lost 39.5 miles of line, "by the abandonment of
the old narrow-gauge,…" on, it says, 15 November 1902. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 1 January 1903)
19 April 1903
Huge headline says "SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE ROAD BUYS ALL
OREGON SHORT LINE SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CITY," which is rather self
explanatory. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily
Tribune, 19 April 1903)
3 May 1903
"Ho for Stockton!" "Broad Gauge Line Open to New Station
Tomorrow" for regular traffic, there being a fine new station building at
Stockton now. U. S. Ragland, the agent at Terminus, in a box car, on the narrow
gauge, also goes to Stockton tomorrow. He had been the entire population of
"Terminus City," and the box car its only building; "…for the
present Terminus will retire to its desert solitude." (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 3 May 1903)
12 January 1906
Oregon Short Line engineers are at work surveying what is known as the 'Logan
Cut-off Line,' direct from Cache Junction to Logan. This line, when done, will
shorten the route by about eight or nine miles. (Pitchard, Salt Lake Daily Herald, 12 January 1906)
