First Railroad in Idaho
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member brwhiz
N 42° 47.869 W 112° 15.712
12T E 396810 N 4739135
The narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway was Idaho's first railroad.
Waymark Code: WMG9ZT
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Zork V
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Idaho's 1st Railroad

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.

FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event

Date of FIRST: 01/01/1878

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