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Amazed that the land shows the scars of the yard quite well along with some buildings.  How many years has it been since it was pulled up?

tomstp Wrote:
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> Amazed that the land shows the scars of the yard
> quite well along with some buildings.  How many
> years has it been since it was pulled up?

I've read and seen photos of the original line being pulled up as part of the WWII scrap metal drive. I don't know if that covers the entire line bypassed by the Great Salt Lake crossing though or just a segment.

Anyway, that would make it roughly 70+ years.

That is amazing, thanks for sharing your results. 

Ryan

So far I haven't found Terrace on a map. Whereabouts?

Posted from Android

In pic 1 that looks like Pilot Peak, NV in the background.

stash Wrote:
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> So far I haven't found Terrace on a map.
> Whereabouts?

http://www.acme.com/mapper/?ll=41.50288,-113.51737



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Very neat! Thank's for exploring this area and sharing your findings!

Thanks jharkin for the coordinates. Now I see the territory. Out in the middle of nowhere!

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Very nice.

Thanks for sharing.

 

Very interesting, excellent use of a drone. There's a lot of interesting details to this old line, something I looked into but would like to check into 'one of these days'. It really had been in the middle of no where, with no connections to anywhere.

There is a lot of info about the line on the National Park Service website.

http://npshistory.com/handbooks/historical/40/hh40o.htm

Also Signor's Salt Lake Division book:

http://www.signaturepress.com/signor/SL.html

BobP Wrote:
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> In pic 1 that looks like Pilot Peak, NV in the
> background.

I'm still in Utah looking east, so that would be Tangent Peak in the Hogup Mountains, the first range west of the Promontory Mountains.

Thank God for drones !   Without it, you would be hard pressed to present this well.

Bill Miller
Galt, ON

Great work! Thank you sharing your discoveries.
 

Fantastic...I've cruised over that area often in Google Earth.  Could get there in a day trip from here, I just need to do it sometime...

As for history, Terrace and Toano (Nevada) were officially consolidated into the new terminal at Montello (NV) in 1905.  Though the mainline remained in use for several decades afterwards, the roundhouse and shops and almost all other facilities were gone by that point.  By my math, that should be 111 years...

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

The book "Un-driving of the golden spike" by Jeff Terry, Thornton Waite, and James Reisdorff covers the history of Promontory as well as the dismantling of the line in 1942.

Dave

Things last in the desert for a very long time, great find Chris!  And you really were in the middle of nowhere.

Nathan

Its crazy to look and see railroad ties that old in their original place.  The remoteness helps preserve the history.  Great find and pics!

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You can still see much the same at the original site of Sherman, in Wyoming. Turntable pit, outlines of the roundhouse, even the graded track bed. And that was abandoned in the very early 1900s when the new route was surveyed and built.

Brian Ehni

I always love heading down there about once a year to drive the line from Lucin to Corinne.  Such solitude down along that line and lots of history all along the way.  Thanks for sharing.  It was awesome to see terrace from the air and gives a much better perspective of the area.  I'm glad to see that someone besides myself actually knows of this place.