Nostalgia & History > UP-SP Merger, Ogden

I need some help. I am looking for the original STB decision that approved the UP-SP merger on August 6, 1996, with all the conditions. Surprisingly, it is not available at the STB.gov web site.

Specifically, I am looking for the language that allowed the merger to take place without any conditions that ended the existance of Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co. in Utah. I can only assume that with the merger of the two owning companies, OUR&D actually did go away. Or maybe not. I am updating this web page about OUR&D:

http://www.utahrails.net/ogden/ogden-ourd.php

I did find a reference to the STB allowing an exemption from the need to consider the public interest for five terminal and switching companies:

Alton & Southern (A&S)
Central California Traction Co. (CCT)
Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co. (OURD)
Portland Terminal Railroad (PTRR)
Portland Traction Company (PTRC)

Any help would be appreciated.

Don Strack



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/15 15:39 by donstrack.

donstrack Wrote:

> I need some help. I am looking for the original
> STB decision that approved the UP-SP merger on
> August 6, 1996, with all the conditions.

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/decision.pdf

See page 19.

Don,
If I remember correctly the OUR&D was disbanded in about 1968 and both the UP and SP took their half of the yard and operated it as two separate yards.
I inherited the maintenance of half of the old OUR&D tracks and half of the maintenance of the Depot..

I wonder if they split the switching of trains every 6 months like LAUPT

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/decision.pdf
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> See page 19.

Thanks Evan. I was really stumped at not being to find the decision. Turns out, I dug out my Ogden Rails file, and I had kept several newspaper clippings that included coverage of the ICC hearings in 1965-1966. Kind of strange why I did not put such detail in the book. The information is now on the OUR&D page.

http://www.utahrails.net/ogden/ogden-ourd.php

On March 13, 1968, OUR&D was reorganized, affecting 1,050 workers. Union Pacific hired 550 workers to support its former-OUR&D operations, Southern Pacific hired 150 workers, and the remaining 350 stayed with OUR&D to support the passenger-train operations. (Ogden Standard Examiner, March 13, 1969, "today")​

In March 1969, there was a newspaper photo of an empty space where Track 8 had been removed. The caption says the track was removed because of the reduced number of trains through the depot - down to six daily trains and one, the Butte Special, running three times a week. If I am reading my October 1968 employee timetable right, those six trains would be the eastbound and westbound Trains 5/6, 9/10, and 103/104. 

Then, in May 1971 Amtrak took over passenger train operations. So now I need to figure out what happened to those 350 employees that were kept to support passenger trains. Then, how many employees OUR&D had at the time of the UP-SP merger in 1996.

​Don Strack