Why Salt Lake's Trestle Bridge Was Abandoned

[@andyarnette9220]

I'm a Conductor for Union Pacific Railroad. I travel across the causeway 6 times per week going to Elko, NV by freight train. Crossing the Great Salt Lake is quite awe inspiring. Thanks for the history lesson.

[@Apiaman1]

I'm in my mid-60s and have always wanted to ride across that section! Do you have any pics of that you could post?

[@andyarnette9220]

@@Apiaman1 unfortunately, i don't. The FRA and the carriers are so critical of employees use of phones, especially posting pics or videos to any social medie, I'm too afraid to do it.

[@Apiaman1]

@andyarnette9220 NO worries at all!! Is it all rock and dirt bow? I'm assuming all of the old wooden trestles are long gone? I know there's a bar in SLC, but that got all of their old timbers from the trestle wood. Take care. I appreciate the response!! .

[@bigglilwayne7050]

​@@andyarnette9220 Have you ever gotten a chance to ride 844??

[@andyarnette9220]

@@bigglilwayne7050 unfortunately, no

[@mikeross801]

My parents remodeled their study 20 or 25 years ago and the hard wood for the floor was from the submerged trestle. It had hues of primary colors somewhat pastel like and changed depending on the light and angles you looked at it. It was amazingly beautiful. Being submerged under the heavy salt water treated it in that special way :)

[@Liquidspaceman]

Thank you for posting this. My Grandfather was a conductor and he got the first train orders to cross that. My brother still has the original paperwork.

[@MikeP2055]

That's cool as hell!

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Great video. From what I know, the structure was built of Redwood froom the northwest when the loggers were falling the big trees. It was almost flawless wood, no knots. That grade is priceless today. I've worked remodeling 1950's homes from my younger days with the same. Back then I don't think they took account of how long it took to grow. Salvaging it was a good thing. I was raised by parents that survived WWII waste was a no go in our home.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Where were they from? I'm a second-generation European-American myself.

[@robdeaton9910]

Bet you dollars to doughnuts it was not redwoods but the ponderosa pines that they used on the original trestle.😊 They probably came from Idaho and Oregon maybe even the Wasatch front above SL.😊

[@stirzjuststirz5077]

I got some of the decking timbers - they are old growth redwood. The piles and some other timbers were doug fir - at least the timbers I had access to were... The biggest problem with the redwood deck is that it was covered with tar and rock, so milling to usable material was not especially easy - but yeah, straight, tight clean grain. I'd imagine, given the amount of timber used, whatever was suitable and cheapest was what got used, and over time portions got replaced with, again, what worked and was most cost effective.

[@claztube]

Redwood is not a 'hardwood' but has many characteristics that make it an ideal material for construction in hostile environments. But the piles may indeed have been fir. Either way the amount of material used to negotiate the shortcut, it's failings and successes are the machinations of Capitalism over Environmentalism.​@@robdeaton9910

[@SunriseLAW]

My parents are both in their 90's. Based on what I can tell of their experience, the "no waste" was more a product of the Great Depression than of the rationing during the war.

[@drkiz96]

My old high school's interior is covered in reclaimed trestle wood from the GSL. Cool to learn the history of it!

[@giselematthews7949]

WOW!

[@dudebro7698]

Which school?

[@Big-lron]

Wtf call the epa and get everyone out of there if that's the case. Creosote treated wood is toxic and should never be used indoors.

[@KandiKlover]

Ah so that’s where it went.

[@drkiz96]

​@dudebro7698 Rigby High School. If you google the interior, you'll be able to see it!

[@joshmcdermott8262]

My parents and I are building a house and found some full-size rectangular beams from this bridge to use on the exterior. The size of them is just incredible and they are absolutely beautiful. I really appreciate having a detailed background of where they came from. Thank you!

[@lemapp]

In Newport News, Virginia, there is a place called Oyster Point. You are hard-pressed to find much of its history on the ground today. In the 19th and 20th centuries, oysters were harvested from the Chesapeake Bay in vast quantities. So much so that oysters were considered a poor person's food. That's why Oyster Rockefeller was a joke name. One of the principal points where oysters were unloaded onto trains was Oyster Point. At its peak, there were three rail companies operating daily runs from Newport News to the major cities of the Northeast. Over time, there were fewer and fewer oysters. The bay became polluted, and the culinary taste of the nation shifted. Now there is a major push to repopulate the Chesapeake Bay with oysters. Each adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water in a day. Early settlers reported how clear the water was when they arrived. It is no longer that way, but it might return if oysters return.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Great comment. I recently watched a KZbin video about a come back effort in New York on Oysters. I don't have the link anymore. I too support she'll fish for water filtering. The Jordan River in Utah has a fresh water clam. It's been around for decades. It's not the invasive muscle. I'm 56 and it's been around since I was a kid. They only get to be about a inch plus across. They ate a food source for birds and non-native raccoons. I just like that they filter the water and the kids like to find them and make art on River clean ups.:)

[@yearight6294]

i use to live there i miss it east end and uptown

[@again5162]

An entire oyster industry was destroyed on Gold Coast Australia when a shipwreck was dynamited. We did manage in the 60s to save some land by using old car wrecks, that method may not work with newer lighter guage steel

[@coyoteodie4458]

I did not know that oysters filtered water, let alone that much. Thanks for the information!

[@sinatrabone]

I know the family that salvaged the wood and created a business around it. Wonderful people, and a wonderful thing they’ve done in salvaging the wood. They’ve since expanded their business to include other forms of salvaged wood for various uses.

[@abraxasracing]

One of the boats, the W E Marsh, used to construct the causeway sank on the north side of the south shore marina in the 1930s. It became visible in 2023 as the lake fell to its lowest recorded level. Another boat, the Lucin, was converted to a fishing boat and worked until it was more than 100 years old in the Pacific Northwest until eventually sinking in a storm. There is a book about it. The giant steel barge used to build the causeway was trapped between the causeway and the trestle and purposely sunk. When the trestle removal began, the barge was raised and used in the recovery of the wood. It remained in use until fairly recently and is still located near the marina on the southern tip of Promontory point. Three of the tugs used in the construction of the causeway were abandoned on the east end between the causeway and the fill way that supported the east end of the trestle where they remain to this day slowly rusting away. The section of video showing a causeway with a marina at the end of it is not part of the causeway crossing the lake. It is the road from Syracuse UT to Antelope Island.

[@Sevalecan]

Neat. You can even see those tugs from street view.

[@Djmc_2002]

I travel across the “fill” that replaced the trestle many times a week for work. Both the trestle and the fill are remarkable feats!

[@claztube]

I concur!

[@tedecker3792]

I helped build a beautiful staircase made of that reclaimed timber. It was hell on saw blades as it was on its way to being petrified!

[@justaperson8560]

Old abandoned railway lines and bridges are my favorite topic really any abandoned bridge as long as there’s photos or video of said bridge is a interesting topic

[@ElizabethMayo-sf4wg]

I am happy to come across this video. I love history and you did a great job!

[@Landon_c]

I went to the Cornerstone ceremony in Ogden at Union Station and I talked to a guy who told me about the lucin cut off. Really cool stuff. He has a table from the wood.

[@DataRew]

I had to do a lot of googling when I started this video to try and figure out how this relates to the current roads across the great salt lake area toward Wendover (I lived in SLC for a lil over 2 years about a decade ago) and I super appreciate the parts showing the pathing in this video and confirming that it was where I thought it was, despite the descriptions that made me think otherwise.

[@josephpiskac2781]

This is great. My dad worked for Union Pacific Railroad and we traveled by train to Los Angeles several times. In the 1950s we drove from Omaha to the Salt Lake and took a swim.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

The Great Salt Lake's origins are from Lake Bonneville, created when the last Ice Age melted. Lake Bonneville extended South to around where US-50 is, and the Nevada border to where Salt Lake City is now. A biiig body of water that took a few thousand years to evaporate... The original train route North of The Great Salt Lake was built for expediency. Once the Transcontinental Railroad was complete, they could redo a lot of it right, lol...

[@jr2904]

There was a giant lake in California thousands of years ago as well, called Lake Manly. There are numerous dry lake beds in the Mojave desert as well, I love the scenery of the high desert.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

Lake Bonneville didn't evaporate. The lake breached a natural dam in southern Idaho and a truly colossal rush of water resulted that ran down the Snake River and Columbia River systems to drain the lake down.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

@@Skank_and_Gutterboy Yes it did. Even after the breech into the Snake River, Bonneville was lowered by about 400 feet, but the area it covered didn't change much because of the topography. (The Provo shoreline (the post-flood shoreline) still stretched from Idaho to about US-50, and the Nevada border to SLC.) The major drop and shrinkage of the lake happened over the next few thousand years due to evaporation. It caused the lake to drop around 650 feet to about the level it is today, leaving behind the salt flats, and other really large, flat plains. (I knew the history, but I admit to looking up the numbers, lol...)

[@Backroad_Junkie]

@@jr2904 There was another large lake in California that disappeared named Tulare Lake. Oh, wait... 😁 That's why there's a lot of Air Force Bases in the California/Nevada area. Large, flat, dry lake beds...

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

@@Backroad_Junkie That's right, I didn't mean to say that the GSL didn't evaporate (of course it did), I meant to say that it wasn't the ONLY cause of level changes over its history.

[@Robbie-sk6vc]

Midlake was actually the name of the maintenance of way town out on the lake. The section gang lived and worked out of there. They were the ones that maintained that section of track.

[@bender7565]

Train stories are always good, thanks.

[@ITSHISTORY]

You bet!

[@chegeny]

Nice. Thanks for your well-researched video. Maintenance costs near water are always expensive, especially for railways it seems. In Dawlish, England, there's a railway that follows the coast. After a 2014 storm caused a massive sea wall breach, the trackbed was completely washed out, leaving the rails to hang in midair. After £80 million, in 2022, a project to raise, reinforce, and improve the sea wall was completed.

[@mikeb9830jpchi]

I love the railway videos in particular, but almost all have been entertaining and informative pieces. Pictures of the culverts, bridges, and berm would have been a good visual aid,.if available.

[@Livlifetaistdeth]

That was fantastic thank you for making this.

[@bluntone2273]

My brother moved close to Ogden over 30 years ago and fell in love with the area. I’ve been there several times and have enjoyed the rich history.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ronaldmarberry9719]

Norm Abram’s the carpenter from this old house bought a whole bunch of the lumber from that trestle years ago in the early 90s and made some furniture out of it

[@richardbause2453]

There was a company formed to Salvage the wood. Trestle Wood was of the company. They came to my area in upstate New York to Salvage timber from some of the mills that were being torn down. The Forman gave me a nice information pamphlet showing the projects they did with the wood from the bridge. Stunning works and colors from the salt pickeling of the redwood. 😮

[@Isthisoneavailable]

I live just south of the lake in Tooele, and didn’t even know about the Lucin cutoff! Great info and video! Thanks for making it!

[@geoffreylee5199]

The fill turned the south of GSL and the north of GSL into different ecological zones. The bridge allowed water to naturally move, over the years, holes have been punched through it to allow water to move north and south.

[@robertmongerthe9025]

It should be mentioned that the Great Salt Lake is less than 20ft. deep and for the most part not deep enough to swim in. It is, in essence, the world's largest mud puddle.

[@dudemetoo2053]

What a great story. I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and the 90s. I visited the great Salt Lake often over the years. I have wondered about the old railroad tracks that would drive through the great Salt Lake. Thanks for the video.

[@arailway8809]

Thank you for this history lesson. You do nice work.

[@ITSHISTORY]

My pleasure!

[@hatuletoh]

My great-grandfather was a deputy sheriff in Salt Lake City from the 1930s until the early 70s. During the war, Ogden was the largest railroad depot in the west, and many bars and restaurants opened up to serve all the military personnel who were constantly passing through. As such, police from surrounding areas would sometimes be loaned out to Ogden for particularly busy times and/or raccous events, such as New Years Eve, which was how my great-grandfather found himself in Ogden when the train accident occurred. He wasn't sent out to accident site--although he went out there a day or two later to see it--but was posted up near the one of the hospitals to help control traffic and keep the roads clear so the accident victims could be brought in as quickly as possible. My great-grandfather died before I was born, but I heard the story second-hand from my grandmother, who was just a little kid at the time but still remembered her father coming home a couple days later and falling alseep before he'd undressed out of his uniform, which was very unusual for him.

[@zangcheye]

In the early 90's, I was a boat captain working for a large Utah engineering firm, subcontracted to the Army Corps of Engineers. We moved a barge around taking core samples and vane shear tests to see if another causeway could be built between Davis County and Antelope Island and possibly even across the island for future transportation options. It is amazing out there. People say the lake stinks and has a lot of bugs, but as soon as you get more than a couple of hundred meters from shore it turns stunningly and uniquely beautiful.

[@latrofu]

I use to travel out to rock quarries that were used to provide the material for the causeways to shoot all the time about 15-20 years ago. There are a number of them and it's impressive how much material was removed. Made for a good backdrop for shooting errant bullet into.

[@jameshudkins2210]

The pilings are pounded not drilled.

[@Zack-Hates-Youtube]

Simple mistakes go a long way to misinforming viewers. Just imagine how many people never see your comment and simple believe they are drilled for the rest of their lives.

[@Ravello1111111111111111111]

I do both to my wife with my piling. Both have their advantages.

[@TopShelfFandomVids]

@@Zack-Hates-KZbin lol

[@AdmiralJT]

@@Ravello1111111111111111111 lmao we all know its more of a peg and caulking job

[@johnw2026]

Maybe so, and I'm no engineer, but I've been thinking about those pilings. If they could be (1) made out of concrete, and (2) made like a self tapping screw, and screwed into the ground, they'd last a lot longer, and hold tighter than a regular piling, just like a self tapping screw 99% of the time is better than a nail.

[@MrManniG]

Once again a stunning Video, thank you.

[@mozeki]

Hey Mr. Socash; I've watched several of your It's History videos and I have to ask; are you a Railroad Fan yourself or is it a coincidence you have so many railroad videos? They are some of the most knowledgeable videos regarding the industries history!

[@cody7807]

I work out near the Great Salt Lake a few times a month. It's been so cool lately, we've had a lot of snow the last couple years and now the lake level is higher than I think I've seen it in 20+ years. If you go to Lake point, UT, and look out to the northwest, it's as if you're looking out to the ocean, it's just water for such a long distance.

[@nl3064]

On the Great Salt Lake, there was also the Saltair pavilion. The first burned down, so did the second. The second Saltair was where they filmed Carnival of Lost Souls.

[@stevef.8041]

Amazing research and presentation!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Thank you!

[@TheodoreNewman-m4q]

Silence is a source of great strength.

[@bwhog]

The saddest part of the Lucin Cutoff is that it bypassed the promontory, where the "Champagne Photo" was taken and the golden spike driven. No longer is that spot marking one of the most significant events in American history, particularly of the 19th century, part of any railroad. The only tracks there are now attached to the museum.

[@Greatdome99]

It's a naional momument, very much marking the event.

[@steveboguslawski114]

The original route was expensive to operate. The grades and curves limited train speed and length. As rail traffic increased it became a bottleneck. After the Lucin cutoff and trestle was built the original route became a secondary line. The tracks remained until World War 2, when the rails were pulled up to help provide steel for the war effort.

[@Al-kw5ii]

The GSL is not a tourist attraction, it smells like sewer, looks like trash, and in warmer months is plagued with flies, insects moss, Salt content so high no fish I could go on and on. I know I lived 5 miles from it for over 30 years. Good video however, I never even knew of this before very much enjoyed the history lesson.

[@CrankyBeach]

In the early to mid 1980s my then-husband and I drove several times from California to Denver to visit family. Our first trip was at the time the lake flooded I-5. We were driving at night so could not see much, but I remember a stretch of the road was just mud and gravel, there was a good-sized dike abutting the westbound lanes (we were eastbound) and at one point we were able to see that the water behind the dike was higher than the freeway. That might have been the year that we traveled back home with a lengthy side trip to the Tetons, just so we could avoid I-80.

[@lwilton]

I remember driving back south from Jackson in the middle of the night. We had to detour thru downtown Salt Lake, as the freeway was flooded. As we drove slowly through streets a foot or more deep in water. There were hundreds of people unloading sandbags from every available truck and building barricades around the Temple and downtown Salt Lake, to keep the buildings from being flooded. I vaguely recall about another 60 miles of detours before the freeway was again above water.

[@jimw1615]

Of course, it is I-15 that runs through Salt Lake City and Ogden.

[@electricianron_New_Jersey]

This is a great channel.

[@oldman975]

This was very informative,now how about a video on Henry Flagler’s railroad to Key West?

[@rogerwhittemore9950]

this channel covered that a year or so ago. use the search function.

[@BeVillageStrong]

A good friend of mine purchased reclaimed lumber from this very project and made it into a beautiful, 10’ long kitchen table. RIP Delish Upstairs Oneida 🌸

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

As crazy as when the British tried to link India and former Ceylon until the Great War stopped them. Even crazier: The Pambam bridge is currently being replaced for a tiny 40k island population!

[@tonyanderson-ln9gl]

Many less than ideal engineering compromises were made when constructing new railroads. The idea was to get an operable line in place, so that profits would be available for line improvement and upgrades. The process continues to this day. Modern earthmoving machinery makes things possible that were unimaginable when many of these lines were originally surveyed.

[@Hwybuster]

How bout some history on Wolf Creek Pass

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

I was in the construction field before I retired, so this is a really interesting story for me!

[@donchandler755]

This is a fascinating story. Thanks for the research on it. I would love to see some of the 'remanants' of the old trestle.

[@brandonhicks7549]

have vague recollection of my grandfather’s involvement in fighting the Bagley crash fire. I wish he were still around to hear more details, no doubt lost to history. The causeway across the lake is still an amazing feat of engineering.

[@angelicsnoww]

i literally drove out to prominent point and golden spike several times and never knew the history behind those. good video!

[@SLJ2137694]

Prominary point.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Promontory Point

[@1095tokoyo]

I worked at a museum in which some of the floor and the front desk were made of wood from the cutoff. Though it sat for about 50 years in storage, it was still usable, and only needed a thin layer of wax to show the grain, light colour, and unique details from the infiltration of the saltwater. When the roof leaked, the other floors (mostly plastic) started to buckle and warp, wheras the Lucin wood only needed a light scrub and rewax, which made it more impressive than it looked. But from what I was told: most of the wood salvage from the Cutoff has already been sold and repurposed/lost, and by sheer luck they found several trestles-just enough for the entry area. I don't think they've put up a sign, but at least someone else now knows, right?

[@DreIsGoneFission]

I lived in Ogden for two years. Such a cool place!

[@robdeaton9910]

I took Amtrak from Portland to Salt lake way back 30 something years ago. It was a great trip but it got dropped.😢 It would be interesting to see if you or someone would take on the job to research the discontinued routes that are really spectacular. IMHO 😊😊.

[@JohnSmith-jm8id]

@@robdeaton9910 The Pioneer was one of my favourite Amtrak trains.

[@stickynorth]

Very cool video on this topic. I always wondered about its history as both a railroad and engineering nerd. A mid-lake cut off is also proposed as a possible solution for the Salton Sea by turning the Northern half of it into a fresh-water lake and gradually changing the salinity of the South... Normally it wouldn't garner much attention however with the possible lithium boom via the existing brine pools of the geothermal plants located on its SE shore being able to self-finance the project potentially as well as making Salton City habitable and desirable again... Since it's a city designed and laid out for 40,000+ people but has only 5000 or so residents because of the stank the lake puts off right now..

[@aarontfoulkes]

As a wood flooring contractor in Montana I installed many square feet of Trestlewood flooring.

[@jonny-b4954]

It's sad it'll be gone soon enough. The entire lake. It was pretty big when I lived there for 9 months in 2000. I remember. But even then it was on a downslope of getting smaller.

[@strobelightbrian]

Great video, thank you for sharing

[@randyedgar4020]

A house built out of the old timber from the causeway completely fell apart due to all the salt impregnated in the wood all the fasteners failed from rust! The house was huge and had to be demolished

[@SLJ2137694]

I remember crossing the lake on a passenger train when I was young.

[@danparker8254]

I’ve travelled that causeway on RBBBC train at night.

[@flynnlizzy5469]

Wow, I'm OLD but had no idea this even existed in our once great country !! Don't mean to be negative but look at all that was accomplished by our forefathers, their vision, brains and determination !! Today it seems that burning it down and getting in your face is what people, who have never created a thing, find the time to do with themselves. Great video, and well over a century ago to boot ! Dreamers keep dreaming !!

[@Not_The_FBI_1992]

I was born and raised in Utah and lived there till i was 37 and never once heard about this tragedy.

[@GilmerJohn]

Well, as these things go, it wasn't that big of an accident. Transport aircraft accidents easily kill 100 to 300 people.

[@joeedh]

I bought some of the old trestle timber in 2011 or so. Was interesting wood.

[@g1mpster]

In Utah & Idaho there is a company called Trestlewood that was formed by the salvage company which sells reclaimed lumber and some of it is from this trestle.

[@deanchappell1314]

Although conditions were harsh, the first Spanish expedition into Utah was actually 200 years before Father Escalante came in 1776. The first expedition was 1565. On the military Camp Williams base is a Spanish cannon with the date Oct.31, 1776 Seville etched into this brass 3" bore artillery piece.

[@p930racer]

I'll never understand not sending someone a few miles down the track to provide an early warning before a stopped train leads to something like this.

[@wayner396]

Interesting video. I've living in utah my whole life and never heard of this.

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

There’s a long railway bridge like that near New Orleans that I remember travelling on

[@toddjensen692]

Thank you for this story.

[@bmwguy325is9]

YAY! A vid close to my home! Thanks!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@bmwguy325is9]

@@ITSHISTORY I did.

[@ericberman4193]

At 5:04 there is a man sitting in a chair on the barge supervising the pile drivers work. Again at 6:12, that same man appears standing in to the right in the foreground, wearing a pointed cowboy hat and smoking a pipe. That man is William Hood - the Southern Pacific’s Chief Engineer and Construction Superintendent who was in charge of the entire Lucia Cutoff Project. Bill Hood under Chief Engineer James Strobridge, was one of the two civil engineers in charge of the design and construction of the Southern Pacific’s southward construction of the railroad over the Tehachapi Mountains including the Tehachapi Loop, an engineering marvel of the 19th Century.

[@russyp]

I just saw your other video about the bathing resort, now this. Both reminded me of Spirited Away.

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

I literally just moved to SLC yesterday!

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

If you enjoy this and are close, take a trip to the old Ogden depot. If you like history. I like to take U.T.A. from Murray Utah to Ogden on the Front Runner train. The 4014 Union Pacific Big boy Steam train is coming to the Ogden depot museum in July. They also have antique cars. Walk east and you have the historic section of town and some places to eat. Enjoy your adventures

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

@adriaanboogaard8571 I most definitely will thanks for the suggestion!

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Ogden was and is a history and a culture melting pot. I'm from Dutch immigrant parents and was born in California. We came in the 1970s Utah was mostly not a melting pot so loving the railway and it's history means a lot. The great Salt Lake is a rare bonus

[@interrobangings]

ew why

[@williamhansen5498]

My father worked on the fire and I hired out in 1963 in the Bridge and Building department and made many trips over the fill.

[@markmei8186]

I went to a flooring show in the 1990s, and one of the products offered was Trestlewood flooring. I inquired about the availability of beam stock made from trestle wood. Ended up buying $50,000 worth of product for a custom home. Problem was, the material they shipped was not uniformly square. We had to run the material through our timber sizer to square it and then resaw for the required texture. The next problem was, because the salt is set by kiln drying, when we remanufactured the material the salt was no longer fused. So, on foggy mornings, which are not uncommon in the Santa Ynez Valley, there would be a salty drip from the beams during construction. Imagine salt water dripping on to some expensive leather couch! The lawyers got involved and I'm not sure how it was settled. In addition to that, the salt content severely affected our milling equipment. But, I will admit, the beams were beautiful as hoped for. Caveat Emptor!

[@geoffmorrow3956]

would love to see you cover the Saltair!

[@falke_blade9341]

When my family om my father's mother's side came to America in 1896 from Prussia some of them had prior knowledge on building railroads and infrastructure some of them stayed in New York,CT,Massachusetts to help build the American railroads

[@thefanone]

Informative Good video 😊😊❤

[@paulsolin-ql5il]

My video suggestion would be the Milwaukee "Beer" line, or iron ore docks in Ashland wisconsin or Duluth Minnesota

[@GarrisonSelman]

My great grandpa was a dump truck driver that worked on laying the causeway.

[@UrkCMH]

A couple of clarifications, please: 1. Is it possible for a person to book train travel directly from Ogden to Elko? 2. Can a passenger car be driven across the causeway?

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

It was reported back in the 90's that there was only one bid for the demolition contract & that was $1.00. I went out there for a few years & hauled off their scrap wood to burn in my wood burner to heat my shop., it was free & burnt well.

[@JoeyCarb]

Well There's Your Problem did a great episode on the train crash

[@jamessveinsson6006]

Another great story Have you thought about doing the Illinois Michigan Canal? I don’t know if you’ve done it yet.

[@KibuFox]

Technically, the bridge is still there. The current Lucin Cutoff that UP uses, in some places travels along the same length that the bridge ran over, before diverting away from the original alignment. In some areas along the current Cutoff, you can still see wood pilings poking up through the earth, pointing to how UP simply backfilled it with stone and dirt. You also can still see the original central pacific line today on Google Earth.

[@Noodleude]

I’ve lived in salt lake my whole life and never knew this

[@thomasducourantjr.6162]

Born and raised in Utah here, this is news to me

[@shjones27]

Very interesting!

[@Grimace_Integ420]

We live in tooele right off the great salt lake, see it everyday, never even noticed this track. I know of a few going through but didn’t know of the historic value of this specific track. I’m definitely going to check it out soon

[@davidsoom1551]

Sandpoint, Idaho once longest wooden bridge in the World.

[@revenniaga6249]

How deep is the lake at the trestle?

[@leeatterberry1239]

The saltwater and metal that's what got me

[@miyagi404]

Wen I was younger you would see some of the timbers sticking out of the water when the level was low

[@LearnwithJanice]

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲

[@ITSHISTORY]

Hello there!

[@mikeskidmore6754]

AOC spike of building a Bridge to Hawaii it seems I recall. I almost bought some of these salt soaked timbers to build crane matts with .

[@localenterprisebroadcastin5971]

I live in salt lake…cool video 🫡

[@utahcoasterenthusiasts]

I wish it would be made into a trestle again and allow the lake to be one again.