[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [UTAH & NEVADA]. Opening of the Ogden and Lucin Cut-Off November 26th, 1903 by Mr. E.H. Harriman, President of the Southern Pacific Company. 

Oblong folio (14 x 18 1/4 in.) 355 x 460 mm. 12 plates, 13 1/2 x 17 in., which feature 23 lithographs, each with printed caption in lower margin, 5 folded blue prints (some toning and soiling to margins of plates, occasional spotting; toning, chipping, few short tears to blueprints). Original blue cloth, gilt title to front board "Opening of the Ogden and Lucin Cut-Off" (joints starting, some scuffing, wear to extremities). 

Printed sheet to the preliminary leaf of each album reads: "Opening of the Ogden and Lucin Cut-Off / November 26th, 1903 / By Mr. E. Harriman, President of the Southern Pacific Company," followed by a list of the guests in attendance (fully separated). 

The following illustrations are enclosed: Sectional View of Finished Double Track East of Midlake. -- Second Crossing, Weber River. -- East End, West Weber Siding. -- Inland Crystal Salt Company's Salt Beds, East of Promontory Point. -- Finished Track East of Weber Station. -- Steamboat Landing. -- Log Boom. -- Unfinished Trestle. -- Driving Last Pile at Midlake. -- Construction Gang West of Colin. -- Carpenter Gang East of Colin. -- Launch Risdon Towing Pile Driver. -- Camp 31, Lunch Hour. -- Finished Double Track, East of Midlake. -- Trestle. -- Temporary Trestle Nearly Filled. -- Temporary Trestle Partly Filled. -- Uploading Gravel Train. -- Hogup Gravel Pit. -- Side View of Trestle. -- Quarry Near Strong Knob. -- Looking Through Lakeside Cut to Salk Lake. -- Gravel Train Backing into Cut from East. 

RARE: OCLC locates one copy. 

The Lucin Cutoff is a 102-mile railroad line in Utah, which runs from Ogden to its namesake in Lucin. The most prominent feature of the cutoff was a twelve-mile-long railroad trestle crossing the Great Salt Lake. The railroad trestle was in use from 1904 until the late 1950s, when it was replaced by an earthen causeway.

Originally constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad, the cutoff was built as a means of shortening the First Transcontinental Railroad. The cutoff is presently owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad as a significant part of the Lakeside Subdivision, which runs from Ogden to Wells, Nevada, and is one of the many subdivisions of the Overland Route. 


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