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Lucin Cutoff Trestle

Box Elder County, Utah
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Added by Robert Stephenson

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Lucin Cutoff Railroad Trestle - The Trestlewood Story

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Overview
Lost Timber stringer over Great Salt Lake on Southern Pacific Railroad
Location
Box Elder County, Utah
Status
Replaced by earthen causeway
History
Built 1904 for the Southern Pacific Railroad, supplanted by an earthen causeway in 1959, closed to traffic in 1993
Design
Timber stringer
Dimensions
Total length: 62,726.4 ft. (11.9 mi.)
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 14, 1972
Also called
Great Salt Lake Trestle
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.22295, -112.65010   (decimal degrees)
41°13'23" N, 112°39'00" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
12/361690/4564819 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Carrington Island NW
Inventory numbers
NRHP 72001257 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 38722 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (6,048)
Box Elder County, Utah (8)
Built 1904 (326)
Built during 1900s (4,247)
Lost (10,366)
Lost 1993 (380)
Lost during 1990s (3,217)
NR-listed (2,354)
 Over a mile long (192)
Owned privately (543)
Replaced by new bridge (7,137)
Southern Pacific Railroad (150)
Timber stringer (1,859)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
Union Pacific Railroad (793)
Utah (110)

Update Log 

  • May 14, 2011: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
  • May 12, 2011: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
  • May 10, 2011: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
  • January 2, 2010: New photo from Robert Stephenson

Sources 

  • Trestlewood - Family-owned business who obtained salvaging rights to the Lucin Cutoff trestle
  • Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
  • Jacob P. Bernard - jacob_bernard [at] yahoo [dot] com

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