Tooele Valley Railroad (Images of Rail)

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In a while after the International Smelter offered economic salvation to Tooele’s struggling desert community, the Tooele Valley Railroad changed into the town artery. Regardless that at first built in 1908 to connect the smelter to the Union Pacific and Western Pacific lines west of town, the railroad changed into central to day-to-day life. Hundreds of local workers rode it to and from work every day. As technology continued to switch Tooele, the Tooele Valley Railroad shared Vine Street with the first automobiles―safety precautions required that the caboose, with a horn mounted to warn motorists, lead the oncoming train. Then again, the smelter’s decades of prosperity proved short-lived, and by the 1930s, the town had fallen on difficult times once again. The railroad outlived the smelter, but operations ceased within the early 1980s, and the city had the abandoned tracks got rid of.

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