Rails East to Promontory The Utah Stations

Written accounts of everyday life on the Promontory Branch of the Transcontinental Railroad are not readily available. The purported fire in Terrace may have destroyed any documents. Newspapers printed during the railroad era provided erratic coverage of activities and events of the stations along the railroad. However, for a brief span in the early 20th Century, the Box Elder Report (Brigham City, Utah) included a series of columns written primarily by and for subscribers living in towns along the Promontory Branch.

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