SALT LAKE CITY STREETCARS
- Salt Lake City Railroad
- Salt Lake Rapid Transit Company
- Consolidated Railway
- Utah Light & Railway Company
- Utah Light & Traction Company
- Salt Lake City Lines
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)
- Franchise in Bountiful dated November 27, 1912 for 43 years, assigned to UL&T on September 18, 1914.
- Franchise in Centerville granted by Davis County prior to incorporation of Centerville City, on December 2, 1912.
- Franchise through Davis County granted on December 2, 1912 from south boundary, on Highway No. 1, northeast for 6000 feet, then northeast along Highway No. 2 to south limits of Bountiful, then from north limits of Bountiful along Highway No. 1 to north limits of Centerville, for 43 years.
- Franchise in Salt Lake County granted on March 3, 1909 through Midvale to Sandy, for 46 years.
- Franchise through Murray granted on March 3, 1909 for 25 years, along State Street.
- Franchise for Holladay line granted by Salt Lake County on April 3, 1911, for 44 years.
- Franchise forfieted for line from Murray-Holladay Highway along Holladay-Cottonwood Road to Highway No. 72, then southeast across private property to Granite Station.
- Franchise in Sandy granted on June 15, 1910, for 45 years.
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)
- When the LDS Church was forced to divest itself of its interest in Salt Lake City Railroad, the stock was purchased by Mayor Francis Armstrong and A. W. McCune in about 1889. (page 36)
- The first electric car operated on August 8, 1889 at 6 p.m., from the power house on 200 East to the east end of town, then back to the Garfield depot, then back to the power house. (page 36)
- Eight cars operated on nine miles of track. (page 36)
- McCune bought the shares of the estate of Armstrong. (page 43)
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