Nostalgia & History > Visit to Salt Lake, Garfield, & Western 1982

On the afternoon of July 22, 1982, I visited the Salt Lake, Garfield, & Western’s yard in Salt lake city UT. Although the signage appeared unfriendly, the people were welcoming and gave me a ride on their ALCO S6 that was working the coal dumper. The only thing they would not permit me to do was to enter the shop building because I was not wearing safety shoes.
Photo 1 - Office and Shop Building, note the “Keep Out’ sign
Photo 2 - Shop Building, the adjacent power plant dwarfed the SLG&W’s facility
Photo 3 - SLG&W #DS5 GE 65T
Photo 4 - SLG&W #DS2 GE 44T ex NYO&W #101
Photo 5 - SLG&W #DS4 ALCO S6
Photo 6 - SLG&W #DS4 ALCO S6 working power plant coal dumper
ALLEN

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Salt Lake Garfield & Western Donald "Huck" Hogle ran the operation for many years.  March 11, 2010 I visited him at his Salt Lake City, Utah, office.  Friendly folks, indeed!



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What a great roster with three different models. That cab ride must have made you smile.
Bob

From my enjoyable cab ride in April of 1982..
They have always entend the hands In friendship

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Nice shots.  Did the track on the left in your last photo belong to a different railroad?

Yes, yes indeed, former line of the Western Pacific.

Out

Here's a shot of a highballing westbound in the summer of 1979...Steve

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Little chance of getting rundown by this beast ! Those dirt mounds could be for the new I-215...Stevie



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boejoe Wrote:
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> Nice shots.  Did the track on the left in your
> last photo belong to a different railroad?

There would have been two different railroads to the left in that last photo.  Western Pacific (headed across northern Nevada to Oakland, CA) and the Union Pacific (former Los Angeles & Salt Lake) headed to LA via Las Vegas.  Today it's all UP and the tracks have been simplified a bit, but the Garfield still runs along their own trackage.  In a sign of how much things have changed, I watched Utah Railway drop off a group of tank cars for the Garfield a while back.  Bet no one could have predicted that in the early 80's.

Nathan