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Tooele Valley Railway

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On October 26, 1932, a train collided with a car carrying then 15-year-old driver Lydia Atkin and her 11-year-old sister Alenn. Both siblings survived the accident. On January 24, 1933, a hard winter storm froze the flangeway between the rails on the Vine Street segment of the railroad, causing a freight train hauled by locomotive #12 to derail near the intersection of Coleman and Vine. The locomotive was flipped on its side, but the only injury to the five crew members riding in the engine cab was a dislocated vertebra suffered by Albert Petras. A strike at the International Smelter in 1936 lead to then superintendent Joseph Earl Tate deputizing six railroad employees in response. A 1937 blizzard would temporarily shut down the railroad and smelter due to heavy snow drifts. Shortly afterwards Claud LeRoy Blackburn, 16; was killed when a train collided with a truck he was riding in along Vine Street.
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was filed in 1981. With the line's abandonment approaching, rescue trains were run to assemble the collection at the soon to be museum site at the Tooele depot, with a particular effort dedicated to moving locomotive #11 from its display in a city park to the new museum with the aid of the railroad and crews from the Tooele Army Depot. After a minor derailment, and difficulties with SW900 #104's throttle cut-out, #11 would be successfully freed from the park and brought to the new museum site. The Tooele Valley Railway was abandoned in 1982, with track removal and road rehabilitation along Vine Street throughout the year.
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operating steam locomotives until 1963). In 1913 the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and the Tooele Valley Railway would participate in a joint "education special" exhibition train with agricultural displays making a stop on the Tooele Valley Railway depot. A stranded train in heavy snow on December 21, 1916, would require railroad workers to collect snow to melt to keep the water levels high inside a stuck steam locomotive until the train could be rescued on Christmas Day.
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workers to take their car to work along with the railroad's passenger fair of $ 0.05 causing an operational loss. The Tooele community protested the move due to poor road conditions in winter making access to the smelter difficult in poor weather. Permission to drop public passenger service was finally given in 1941 due to anticipated freight traffic increases from the Elton Tunnel branch. Shift trains for smelter workers however would continue though until 1946.
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was used to haul away scrap from the demolition of the smelter site. The railroad briefly served the Carr Fork Mine project during the late 1970s. The Tooele Valley Railway was considered as a potential option for ore haulage out of the Carr Fork Mine, however a new rail spur off the Union Pacific mainline was considered as well to bypass the Tooele Valley Railway to allow the Union Pacific direct access to ore trains and the
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The last revenue train ran on July 7, 1980. For the following two years, the railroad's final superintendent Don Lee would remain to staff the Tooele depot where he worked alone in the office prior to the railroad's closure and the station's conversion into a museum. An intent to abandon the railroad
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In 1942, a fire would break out at the International Smelter, which would spread through the Tooele Valley Railway's locomotive shop destroying the structure. The construction of the Elton Tunnel provided overburden to fill in the Middle Canyon Trestle, increasing train weights over the bridge which
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In 1929 a lawsuit was brought against the railroad by Jessie Scorey Thomas against the railroad for the death of her husband, Odell Thomas, a brakeman on the railroad who was killed while switching cars at International. The court ruled the railroad owed a $ 5000 award for the death of the brakeman.
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began in 1971 as the smelter's shut down approached. The smelter closed in 1972, and the railroad lost its main revenue source. With the smelter closed, the railroad ran a freight train in February of that year unsure if it would be the railroad's final revenue run or not. The Tooele Valley Railway
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societies in 1910. In 1911 the railroad would renegotiate its operating license with Tooele City, abandoning plans to electrify the railroad and extending the license to operate steam locomotives by another 25 years with the railroad paying Tooele $ 5000 for road upgrades (the railroad would end up
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The SPLA&SL station at the end of the Tooele Valley Railway would be renamed Warner after the completion of the Tooele Valley Railway's Tooele Station on Broadway. The station name Warner was taken from John Henry Warner the first track foreman of the Tooele Valley Railway who lived in a house
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Due to the steep grades to the smelter, followed by the street running on Vine Street downgrade, the railroad normally operated with the caboose facing uphill and the locomotive shoving from the rear to prevent runaway railcars. A crew member riding the front of the caboose would protect the shove
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railroad, traveling through Vine Street until reaching Tooele Station. The grade traveled out of the city until crossing a wooden trestle at the mouth of Middle Canyon. In later years the trestle was filled in with rock overburden to stabilize it. The grade continued along the mountain bench until
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piles at the smelter for use as potential railroad ballast. Ultimately both the Tooele Valley Railway and a new Union Pacific extension were not chosen in favor of trucking ore to a transload site located along the Union Pacific mainline. Union Pacific Railroad's Warner depot which had served the
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Hearings would be held at the state capitol during December 1939 to hear the Tooele Valley Railway's petition to end passenger service on the railroad. Railroad manager E.R. Phelps would testify the loss of passenger revenue was due to competition from automobiles, allowing more and more smelter
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through Tooele City to the International Smelter site. Original estimates for the proposed route to Black Rock were for an approximately 25 mile route. Construction rights through Tooele City along Vine Street were granted by Mayor Albert Walters on January 15, 1909; with a stipulation that the
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the Tooele Valley Railway demonstrated in 1943 with a special train with multiple locomotives hauling it. A 1948 blizzard would strand locomotive #11 on the line, with railroad engineer Marion Bevan attending to the stranded train until it was rescued.
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The Tooele Valley Railway would host celebrations of "Old Folks Day" a local holiday at the time, with special excursions from Warner to the Smelter. The railroad would also host a special excursion and tour of the International Smelter for the
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and onto the Union Pacific mainline through the connection of the two roads on the Tooele Valley Railway. In 1925 the Tooele Valley Railway received a cash settlement from the U.S. Government as compensation for the time the railroad was under
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kept the locomotives until selling them. #11 and #12 were sent to the Tooele Valley Railway in 1912. Locomotive #11 would be preserved after retirement in 1963. #12 was scrapped in 1956, with the tender being used to mount a
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two guards were assigned to the bridge to prevent sabotage, and it was assumed the six strangers were potential saboteurs. The Tooele Valley Railway, represented by J.B Whitehall along with representatives of the
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excursion, with train departures from the Tooele Valley Railway along the Western Pacific Railway into the military base. In the mid-1960s a train hit a car crossing Seventh Street, killing a child in the car.
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An unknown man who was traveling in a party of six, was shot at by Earl M. Parson for approaching the Middle Canyon Trestle after refusing to yield on October 7, 1917. With heightened security during
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to be used in revenue freight service. First displayed near the intersection of Vine Street and 200 West. Restoration of the #11 back to operation was considered for the rebuilding of
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smelter operations on the eastern edge of Tooele. The line was abandoned around 1982, nearly a decade after the smelter closure and the end of production at the nearby Carr Fork Mine.
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running a railfan excursion to the smelter. The Tooele Valley Railway would begin conversion to diesel power later in 1955. In 1958 the Tooele Valley Railway would cooperate with the
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regarding a proposed railroad grouping in 1923. A 1922 derailment on the Western Pacific mainline would re-route passenger trains to and from Salt Lake City via the Western Pacific's
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railroad would only have rights to operate steam locomotives along the route for two years after construction, with the railroad promising to eventually convert to
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The Tooele Valley Railway was founded in 1908, by the Utah Consolidated Mining Company to connect the International Smelter to the
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railroad. On February 2, 1955, a special train event ran on the Tooele Valley Railway featuring steam locomotive #11 and visiting
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Although the Tooele Valley Railway did not choose to purchase a diesel locomotive at the time, it was one of the railroads where
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adjacent to the Tooele station on Broadway. The first superintendent of the railroad was C.E. Burke. Joseph Earl Tate (father of
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uphill, and several of the railroad's cabooses were outfitted with airhorns the railroad could use to warn oncoming traffic.
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Mining, Smelting and Railroading in Tooele County Appendix Locomotives and Cabooses of the Tooele Valley Railway Company
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Tooele Valley Railway #3 a 0-6-0 crossing the Middle Canyon Trestle in an undated photograph from the early 1900s.
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The Tooele Valley Railway was incorporated on November 18, 1908; with a charter outlining a route from
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Postcard of Tooele Valley Railway 1, a Sheffield Car Co. built motor car outside their factory in
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Mining, Smelting and Railroading in Tooele County Chapter 24 History of the Tooele Valley Railway
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interchange point between the Tooele Valley Railway and the UP, burned down in December 1975.
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locomotive #2. The majority of the line's steam locomotives were retired in 1955, when an
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reaching the smelter. At its steepest point the railroad reached a 2.4% grade. In 1937 a
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Mining, Smelting and Railroading in Tooele County Chapter 26 Union Pacific Railroad
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also preserved the snowplow mounted to locomotive #12's tender, several pieces of
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in 1966, becoming locomotive #104. Locomotive #11 was kept as a back up for the
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Mining, Smelting and Railroading in Tooele County Chapter 19 Tooele Smelter
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Mining, Smelting and Railroading in Tooele County Addendum to Chapter 24
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from the railway. Locomotive #100 and #104 were sold to new owners.
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Tooele Valley Railway #11 on static display in Tooele City in 2018.
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locomotives, numbers #9 through #12. The line also operated an
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caused the Buffalo and Susquehanna to cancel the order, and
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Tooele Valley Railway through Tooele's New Town neighborhood
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Discussions on abandoning the railroad from parent company
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Locomotive #11 and #12 were built as part of an order of
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Reclamation of the grade was performed as part of the
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were among the western railroads who protested to the
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Historic railway in Tooele County, Utah, United States
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Kooistra, Blair; Belmont, James; Gayer, Dave (1998).
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corporation. The line ran from a connection with the
2075:"International Smelting and Refining Superfund Site" 927:"Railroads of Utah, Corporation Information, Part 7" 427:was built connecting the line to the Elton Tunnel. 418:A large portion of the Tooele Valley Railway was a 133: 128: 120: 84: 79: 71: 61: 51: 41: 36: 1901:"Carr Fork Mine to add Millions to Area's Economy" 1290:. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. 383:The Tooele Station has been preserved to form the 689:completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad 1002: 1000: 687:in 1968 to coincide with the centennial of the 494:International Association of Rebekah Assemblies 1206: 1204: 691:, and again in 1969 with the planning for the 2235: 2233: 411:, to the smelter located on the bench of the 8: 1090:"Transcript Bulletin July 23, 1909 untitled" 849: 847: 679:. #11 would be the last steam locomotive in 19: 1543: 1541: 1416:"Grouping Plan is Opposed by Smaller Lines" 1212:"Historical Register List's Foreman's Home" 378:International Smelting and Refining Company 186:International Smelting and Refining Company 2146:"The Last Buffalo and Susquehanna Steamer" 1563:"Strike Ties up Major Utah Mining Centers" 1468:"$ 5000 Award Made in Death of Railroader" 1031: 1029: 166: 25: 1822:"T.O.D. Open House 1958 Armed Forces Day" 1700:. Salt Lake City, Utah. December 14, 1939 1551:. 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Salt Lake City, Utah. March 29, 1937 385:Tooele Valley Museum and Historic Park 138:Tooele Valley Museum and Historic Park 18: 1520:"Section Hand Hurt as Engine Derails" 1448:. Salt Lake City, Utah. July 15, 1922 1288:Images of Rail Tooele Valley Railroad 1256:"Tooele to Welcome Old Folks in June" 528:United States Railroad Administration 7: 1694:"Plan to Drop Passenger Service Hit" 1588:Sommers, Buford (February 2, 1937). 1390:"Refusing to Halt, Alien is Wounded" 1338:"1913 Educational Special off Today" 389:National Register of Historic Places 2242:"Tooele Valley Railway Locomotives" 1494:"Girls Injured in Auto-Train Crash" 1244:. Tooele County Historical Society. 1197:. Tooele County Historical Society. 1064:"Tooele Valley Railway (1908-1982)" 1040:. Tooele County Historical Society. 914:. Tooele County Historical Society. 2123:"Tooele Valley Railway Co. 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January 15, 1909 953:"New Feeder for Salt Lake Route" 828:Strack, Don (December 5, 2023). 656:Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad 490:Independent Order of Odd Fellows 309: 302: 275: 268: 249: 227: 205: 198: 175: 2185:Strack, Don (October 9, 2020). 2101:"Tooele County Railroad Museum" 1142:"Mexicans Fight Duel at Tooele" 741:List of Superfund sites in Utah 387:and has been registered on the 269: 2103:. Steam Locomotive Information 2029:. Tooele, Utah. August 6, 1981 1998:"The Final Chapter is Written" 1370:. Ogden, Utah. October 8, 1917 761:"Tooele Valley Railway Museum" 626:locomotive was purchased from 519:Interstate Commerce Commission 515:Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad 393:Tooele Valley Railroad Complex 206: 199: 1: 2166:. Tooele, Utah. July 12, 1968 2144:Roehm, Pete (December 1985). 2023:"Notice of Intent to Abandon" 1668:"Autos Blamed in Rail Losses" 1442:"Freight Wreck Delays Trains" 1364:"Unknown Alien Shot by Guard" 1096:. Tooele, Utah. 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Tooele, Utah
Reporting mark
Tooele, Utah
Track gauge
standard gauge
Tooele Valley Museum and Historic Park
Legend
International Smelting and Refining Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Warner Station
Warner Branch
Western Pacific Railroad
railroad
Anaconda Copper
Union Pacific Railroad
Western Pacific Railroad
Tooele, Utah
International Smelting and Refining Company
National Register of Historic Places
Tooele Valley Railroad Complex
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
Tooele, Utah
Oquirrh Mountains
street-running
branch line

Black Rock
electric power
motorcar

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