Lucin Cutoff

	Southern Pacific Railroad: Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off Trestle
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Aerial view of the Lucin Cutoff
Nearest city	Ogden, Utah
Area	143 acres (58 ha)
Built	1902
Architect	Hood,William
NRHP reference No.	72001257
Added to NRHP	April 14, 1972

The Lucin Cutoff is a 102-mile (164 km) railroad line in Utah which runs from Ogden to its namesake in Lucin. The line included a nearly 12-mile (19 km) long railroad trestle crossing the Great Salt Lake. Built by the Southern Pacific Company (SP) between February 1902 and March 1904, the cutoff bypassed the original Central Pacific Railroad route through Promontory Summit where the Golden Spike was driven in 1869. By going west across the lake from Ogden to Lucin it cut off 44 miles (71 km) and also significantly decreased curvature and grades. Built under the direction of SP chief engineer William Hood, a team of 3,000 SP workers worked seven days a week to build the line. By 1908, five passenger trains and seven freight trains were using the Lucin Cutoff in each direction daily. In 1942, the original line was removed between Lucin and Corinne, Utah — with the last Promontory spikes pulled up and the scrap metal donated to the war effort.^[2] In 1944 the cutoff was the site of a train wreck in which 48 people were killed. The trestle was eventually replaced in the late 1950s with a parallel causeway built under contract by the Morrison Knudsen construction company.

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Lucin Cutoff Railroad Trestle
Across the Great Salt Lake
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. UT-13, "Southern Pacific Railroad, Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Trestle, Spanning Great Salt Lake, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT", 42 photos, 2 color transparencies, 5 measured drawings, 12 data pages, 4 photo caption pages

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] "Lucin Cutoff Opens - Timeline - Union Pacific 150th Anniversary - UP150.com - Union Pacific 150th Anniversary - UP150.com".

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