Nostalgia & History > Orem Inter-Urban

Picture 1 is from the website,
 
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/GEA/id/2912/rec/4
 
Picture 1, “Call Number: MSS P-1 # 20574.  Title: Orem Inter-Urban.  Photographer: Anderson, George Edward, 1860-1928.  Description: A photograph taken outdoors of a large group of men working on a railroad track going down the middle of a road in Spanish Fork, Utah. The buillding with the tower is part of the Spanish Fork Co-op.  Date: 1914.  Publisher Digital: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.   Place: Spanish Fork, Utah.  Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative; 12.70 x 17.78 cm. (5 x 7 in.),” 
 

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=12ptPicture 2, portion of picture 1 enlarged.

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Picture 4, portion of picture 1 enlarged. 
 

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Picture 5, portion of picture 1 enlarged. 
 

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Picture 6, portion of picture 1 enlarged. 
 

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The Orem Inter-Urban (officially the Salt Lake and Utah RR) was fairly late in the game for electric interurban railways.  According to the Hilton & Due book, it opened in 1913  with internal-combustion motor cars, and the electrification was completed later that year.  But the line deteriorated in its later years and it was abandoned in 1946.  One SL&U car survives in operating condition: Control trailer observation car 751 is preserved at Western Railway Museum near Fairfield CA, and the MU control system has been restored so it will work in a train with Sacramento Northern 1005.  Note the air whistle in the second photo--it's similar to a Pacific Electric "trombone" whistle, and makes Southern Californians feel right at home.

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On the SL&U it had walk-over coach seats and no controller.

Here's a short movie whilst riding in this car at WRM in April 2013.

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