Salt Lake & Western Railway
This page was last updated on January 17, 2003.
Compiled by Don Strack
Class: Union Pacific-controlled
Incorporated: May 30, 1881
Construction Started: Summer 1881
Construction Completed: First train on June 10, 1882
Disposition:
Included with others to form Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway on July 27, 1889; became UP's Fairfield Branch.
Abandoned:
- Topliff to Boulter, 1927
- Five Mile Pass to Topliff, 1938
- Cutler to Five Mile Pass, 1952
Route:
From Cutler (north of Lehi) on Utah Southern, west and southwest to Five Mile Pass, the south to Boulter Summit and Tintic District.
Stations:
- MP 0.0 - Cutler
- MP 1.6 - D&RGW Crossing (D&RGW over crossing via steel girder bridge)
- MP 1.9 - Salt Lake & Utah Crossing (at grade, on east bank on Jordan River
- MP 2.5 - Roberts
- MP 4.9 - Clinton
- MP ?.? - Reeves (Swett, page 37)
- MP 7.2 - Webb
- MP 12.7 - Dahl Spur
- MP 15.2 - Cedar Fort
- MP 17.4 - Floyd
- MP 20.3 - Fairfield (connection with Salt Lake & Mercur Railroad)
- MP 23.6 - Five Mile Pass
- MP 29.6 - Topliff (site of three lime quarries; United States Smelting quarry, Utah Sugar quarry, American Smelting & Refining quarry)
- MP 32.4 - Rush Valley
- MP 35.7 - Del Monte
- MP 43.32 (end) - Boulter (connection to UP Leamington Cutoff mainline at Boulter Summit)
Remarks:
Robert Edwards told the author on February 28, 1979 that at one time, UP operated a passenger train from Salt Lake City to Lehi, and on to Los Angeles, via the Fairfield Branch.
