Trolley Thursday 5/14/20 - The Bits and Pieces of the Salt Lake & Utah

When we last left the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, it had changed hands from being privately run by its founder and head honcho, Walter C. Orem, to another private venture from Boston using the same legal name. This second period would bring some financial fortune to the company, but not enough to prevent being sold to interests in the Eccles Sugar Company. These new owners took the drastic measure of turning the semi-profitable interurban into long-distance bus routes, which usually spells danger for a railroad, but for the SL&U, it was one of a long line of wrecks, drunkards, and poor management that turned the Orem's Red Cars into a distant memory. On today's Trolley Thursday, we remember the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad.

Trolley Tuesday 5/12/20 - The Salt Lake and Utah Railway

The Salt Lake, Garfield & Western (the Saltair) wasn't the only electric railroad serving the saltiest region on Earth (besides the internet), but it was most certainly a pleasure line over an actual railway. One of the bigger electric railways that ran alongside the Saltair was the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad (SL&U), which was planned from the start as a legitimate freight and passenger railroad. Popularly known as the "Orem", after its financiers, it would not last as long as the Saltair, but would still remain one of Utah's beloved interurbans. Join us on today's Trolley Tuesday for a look at the SL&U Trolley! (I know what you're thinking, and no.)