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SP/UP Traffic Agreement

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SP/UP Traffic Agreement
Posted by Kevin C. Smith on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 8:47 AM

After Harriman's failed merger of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific a century ago, I believe that one of the details of the "divorcement" was that the SP would sent a proportion of their traffic east via Ogden and the UP. I was goin gto do a little reading up about that with whatever I could find online (cuz, time)...but I can't remember the name of the agrement! If I remember aright, it was the name of the city north of which the traffic would originate. Can someone recall it? I am simply blocked.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:51 PM

Kevin, you might have been right the first time:

https://utahrails.net/drgw/ogden-gateway.php 

- PDN. 

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Posted by Kevin C. Smith on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 10:42 PM

THANK YOU!

I was trying to recall "Santa Margarita" so hard that I never looked under anything else.

Now, I need a margarita...santa or otherwise.

Thanks again.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:51 AM

Yo're welcome.  Let us know if you find anything interesting.  Not an area - subject or geography - that I'm real familiar with (yet). 

- PDN. 

"This Fascinating Railroad Business" (title of 1943 book by Robert Selph Henry of the AAR)

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