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SALT LAKE CITY STREETCARS

Compiled by Don Strack

(Incomplete, research continues.....)

This page was last updated on December 16, 2007.

"Mass Transit in the Salt Lake Valley: 1872 to 1960" — An scanned version of Utah Economic and Business Review, Volume 37, Number 9, September 1977.

Salt Lake City Railroad — Clarence Reeder's excellent history of the Salt Lake City Railroad before it was electrified in 1889.

Salt Lake City Streetcars — Articles by Mike Laine about Salt Lake City's streetcars. Written for the locally produced Gandy Dancer newsletter.

Salt Lake City Streetcars, Chronology History — A chronology history of streetcar development in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City's Trolley Coaches — An article from Bus World magazine (Volume 5, Number 2, February 1983) about Salt Lake City's trolley coaches, streetcars without rails.

Photos of Salt Lake City streetcars. (just a few for now, others to be added later)

(Much more research is needed into the relationship between Utah Light & Railway and Electric Bond & Share. EBS was a trust formed in 1905 by General Electric to control the generation of electric power in the U.S., and to increase the use of electricity by building electric railroads, both street railways and interurban railways.) (Google search 1) (Google search 2)

Research Notes

Notes from Utah Power & Light archives Box 5755:
From UP&L file dated September 18, 1914 (Research completed on March 5, 1982)

Notes from "Utah Light & Traction Co., History of Origin and Development"
Prepared in Connection With Federal Power Commission Request, Order Dated May 11, 1937:
(From Utah Power & Light archive library) (Research completed on March 5, 1982)

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