. Electric railway journal . Street, the principal cross street of the Ogden depot is midway between the union station andthe center of the business district on the line of the OgdenRapid Transit Company. An extension is now being builtnorth to reach the northern and eastern portions of the company owns a right-of-way up the Ogden River canyonto Idlewild, a mountain hotel owned by Mr. Bamberger; butit is doubtful if a railway will be built there by his company,inasmuch as the Ogden Rapid Transit Company now operatesa line in the canyon as far as the Hermitage Hotel and isplan
. Electric railway journal . Street, the principal cross street of the Ogden depot is midway between the union station andthe center of the business district on the line of the OgdenRapid Transit Company. An extension is now being builtnorth to reach the northern and eastern portions of the company owns a right-of-way up the Ogden River canyonto Idlewild, a mountain hotel owned by Mr. Bamberger; butit is doubtful if a railway will be built there by his company,inasmuch as the Ogden Rapid Transit Company now operatesa line in the canyon as far as the Hermitage Hotel and isplanning to build on to Idlewild and points in the valleybeyond in 1911. The Salt Lake & Ogden company owns several pieces ofproperty fronting on the streets traversed by its tracks, whichcan be used as needed for storage tracks, shops and terminalstations and facilities. The main car and repair shops, how-ever, are to be located at St. Joseph, miles north of SaltLake City. Here the company owns a large tract of land and. Salt Lake & Ogden Railway—Bridge Over Union PacificRailway at present has its main storage tracks and a small repair necessity arises modern and complete shop buildings andcar houses will be erected at that point. Track connections for the interchange of freight are main-tained at Salt Lake with the Rio Grande and the Ogden ShortLine railways, and at Ogden with the Union Pacific. ROADBED Outside of the cities the company operates on its own right-of-wav, which has a standard width of 66 ft. Although only A PRJfL. 22, I g I 1 . ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 70 f single track with sidings is at present in use, provision is madefor a double track throughout. The heaviest roadbed con-struction occurs at the Ogden end of the line, where bridgeswith the required cuts and fills are necessary for crossing theWeber River, the Union Pacific tracks and a local street rail-way track. At present the river crossing is made on a tem-porary trestle, but a concrete bridg
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