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"Operation Fill" Southern Pacific's New Crossing of the Great Salt Lake photograph album
MS 776
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Title: "Operation Fill" Southern Pacific's New Crossing of the Great Salt Lake photograph album
Dates: Jun. 1955 - Apr. 1960
Collection Number: MS 776
Creator/Collector:
Southern Pacific
Extent: 1 album
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: This album chronicles the building of a new fill across the Great Salt Lake to replace the then existing trestle.
Language of Material: English
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
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"Operation Fill" Southern Pacific's New Crossing of the Great Salt Lake photograph album. California State Railroad Museum
Library and Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
This album chronicles the building of a new fill across the Great Salt Lake to replace the then existing trestle. All phases
of the construction is shown. This photo album was prepared for the Southern Pacific's Board of Directors' meeting on August
15, 1957.
The original opened in 1904. A major fire broke out on the trestle in May 1956. Actual construction was started in June
1955. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. was awarded a $45 million contract for construction. The target completion was April
1960.
[Album 106]