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The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad ( reporting mark SLR) [1] was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities ( Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California), via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles ...
Jan 30, 2018 · Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad was a name change in August 1916 from the original 1901 San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. The SPLA&SL (and the later LA&SL) were controlled by William Clark until 1903, then jointly controlled by Clark and OSL until April 1921, when UP bought Clark's half interest, making LA&SL jointly owned by UP and OSL, which itself was fully controlled by UP.
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Clark was permitted to operate the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake on the tracks in exchange for giving Union Pacific a fifty percent share in the railroad. The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake was completed in Jean, Nevada, twenty miles west of Las Vegas, on January 30, 1905. Trains started running through Las Vegas a few days later ...
The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company Records (1901-1976) are comprised of two series. The first series consists of the Los Angeles office files of H. I. (Horace Ingersoll) Bettis, Vice President and General Auditor of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and its subsidiary, the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.
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Length. 21 miles (34 km) The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad was Southern California 's first railroad. Its 21-mile (34 km) line from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles was built from 1868 to 1869 and began operations on October 26, 1869. [1] The railroad was the brainchild of Phineas Banning [2] and its primary purpose was to transport freight from ...
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The "Salt Lake" Route. For years there has been almost constant talk of a connecting line of railway between Southern California and the Great Salt Lake Basin. In 1886, Captain C. E. Thorn, Judge Ross and otber property owners of Los Angeles built a narrow gauge line between Los Angeles and Glendale. About the same time Captain John Cross came ...
Description. In 1912, the Railroad Commission required all steam, electric, street and switching railroads to submit detailed, notarized maps of the location of their lines and facilities in California. This series is composed of alignments showing the location of right of way, profiles illustrating track elevation, and station plats locating ...
