Salt Lake & Utah Railroad
Compiled by Don Strack
(This page was lat updated on September 5, 2003)
(no date, circa 1919):
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to allow construction of tracks east along 9th South, crossing 1st West, Jefferson Street, and West Temple, including the tracks of Utah Light & Traction Company along West Temple. SL&U's main track runs north and south along 1st West. Salt Lake City has granted a franchise permitting tracks along 9th South. Grade Crossing Permit No.32.
(Utah Public Service Commission, Case 119)
May 24, 1920:
SL&U was approved to receive a $64,600 two-year loan from U. S. government to purchase new equipment and motive power, to make additions and betterments, and to pay part of floating debt. Applied for a $300,000 five-year loan. ICC Finance Docket 1016.
(65 ICC 8) (Research done August 22, 1988)
July 10, 1920:
SL&U was approved to receive a $235,400.00 15-year loan from U. S. government, being the remainder of an original application for a $300,000 five-year loan. ICC Finance Docket 1016.
(65 ICC 55; 67 ICC 52) (Research done August 22, 1988)
June 23, 1921:
SL&U was approved to receive a $700,000 15-year, first mortgage loan from U.
S. government, under the provisions of the Transportation Act of 1920, Section
210. ICC Finance Docket 1475 (67 ICC 791) (Research done on August 22, 1988)
July 25, 1925:
SL&U receivers appointed July 25, 1925. (Utah Public Service Commission, Case 928)
1934:
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to increase freight rates, along with all the other railroads in the state. Columbia Steel Corporation's Ironton plant began operations on May 1, 1924. Between 1924 and 1934, the plant produced: 1,189,598 tons of pig iron; 825,574 tons of coke; 44,702 tons of sulfate of ammonia; and 35,939 tons of benzol. The pig iron produced at the plant is shipped to plants in Pittsburg and Torrance, California. (Utah
Public Service Commission, Case 1658)
December 20, 1934:
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to close the agency at Salem. (Utah
Public Service Commission, Case 1660)
September 6, 1939:
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to do business as a common carrier. The company is no longer in receivership and has been sold.
(Utah Public Service Commission, Case 2298)
July 2, 1945:
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to close the depot on Center Street in Provo. The depot will be replaced by a new one to be built on its freight line along 5th South. Also to abandon its tracks to the Center Street depot, provided that it is not required to remove them. The normal five month deadline for action was waived because of the labor shortage due to the war.
(Utah Public Service Commission, Case 2861)
(no date, circa late 1945):
SL&U received Utah PSC approval to abandon all service and discontinue operation of its entire line of railroad. Protested by Pleasant Grove Lumber & Supply Company because it is the only railroad served coal yard in the vicinity. The company sold $11,250 in coal in 1944. Protested by H. W. Jacobs Feed & Grain Company of Pleasant Grove. They have shipped 40 carloads of feed in the past year.
(Utah Public Service Commission, Case 2925)
