Idaho's 1st Railroad
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muddawber
N 42° 47.869 W 112° 15.717
12T E 396803 N 4739135
Idaho's first railroad was an off shoot of the transcontinental line.
Waymark Code: WM25G7
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 09/08/2007
Views: 37
Through this canyon once puffed the wood burning locomotives of the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway.
Construction, undertaken by a Mormon co-op, came northward from a junction with the transcontinental line but stopped in 1874 at Franklin on the Utah-Idaho border. Jay Gould, famous financier of the Union Pacific, took over in 1877: trains were passing here the next summer and the rails reached Montana in 1880. New life for east Idaho followed the shrieking whistles of those little Utah and Northern trains
Marker Name: Idaho's 1st Railroad
Marker Type: Roadside
County: Bannock
City: Pocatello
Group Responsible for Placement: Idaho Historical Society and Idaho Transportation Department
Marker Number: 17
Marker Text: Not listed
Date Dedicated: Not listed
Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed
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