Discovering Ogden's Streetcar History
by Sheri Murray Ellis
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1. Deseret Evening News. 1900. “Ogden Rapid Transit Co.” May 18, Salt Lake City.
2. Ogden Daily Standard. 1900a. “Street Railway Company.” May 22, Ogden.
3. Ogden Daily Standard. 1900b. “New Street Cars Coming.” July 22, Ogden.
4. Ogden Daily Standard. 1900c. “The Street Car System.” August 14, Ogden.
5 Ogden Daily Standard. 1900d. “They Have Came.” August 20, Ogden.
6. Present-day Washington Boulevard was referred to as Washington Avenue until sometime after 1936.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ogden Daily Standard. 1901. “An Ordinance.” July 17, Ogden.
10 Ibid.
11. Ogden Daily Standard. 1902a. “Washington Avenue to be Paved.” March 1, Ogden.
12. Ogden Daily Standard. 1902b. “Notice of Intention.” November 7, Ogden.
13. Ogden Daily Standard. 1903a. “Council to Repave Twenty-Fifth Street.” December 15, Ogden.
14. Ogden Daily Standard. 1902c. “Street Car Company.” March 29, Ogden.
15. Ogden Daily Standard. 1903b. “Ogden & Northwestern Road Will Have New Engine and Cars.” March
12, Ogden.
16. Ogden Daily Standard.1903c. “Ogden Rapid Transit.” July 23, Ogden.
17. Ibid.
18. Ogden Daily Standard. 1904a. “Notice of Intention.” January 22, Ogden.
19. Ogden Daily Standard. 1904b. “Steel Rails for Street Have Been Ordered.” February 24, Ogden.
20. Ogden Daily Standard. 1904c. “Franchise Given the Rapid Transit.” March 1, Ogden.
21. Ogden Daily Standard. 1905. “Surveying a Road to Canyon.” June 8, Ogden.
22. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906a. “Eccles has Teams at Work.” April 30, Ogden.
23. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906b. “Cars for the Canyon.” June 30, Ogden.
24. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906c. “Stops Work on Canyon Road.” October 10, Ogden.
25. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906d. “Ogden Rapid Transit Blocks Bamberger.” April 13, Ogden.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ogden Daily Standard. 1907a. “Franchise Granted to Co.” January 22, Ogden.
29. Ibid.
30. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906e. “Car Line to Have New Power.” January 10, Ogden.
31. Ogden Daily Standard. 1906f. “Sub-Station for Power Company.” February 14, Ogden.
32. Ogden Daily Standard. 1907b. “North Ogden Street Cars.” July 26, Ogden.
33. Ogden Daily Standard. 1907c. “A Trolley Line over Viaduct.” December 6, Ogden.
34. Ogden Daily Standard. 1907d. “Viaduct is Not to be Built.” December 24, Ogden.
35. Ogden Daily Standard. 1908a. “Viaduct is No Longer in Doubt.” January 2, Ogden.
36. Ogden Daily Standard. 1909a. “There Will Be No Extensions in the City.” March 10, Ogden.
37. Ogden Daily Standard. 1908b. “Ogden Rapid Transit it Aroused.” March 30, Ogden.
38. Ogden Daily Standard. 1909b. “Granted a Franchise on Wall.” March 30, Ogden.
39. Ogden Daily Standard. 1909c. “Contracts on Canyon Road.” March 17, Ogden.
40. Ogden Daily Standard. 1909d. “Ogden Rapid Transit Camp.” April 2, Ogden.
41. Ogden Daily Standard. 1909e. “Opening of Canyon Line.” June 26, Ogden.
42. Ogden Daily Standard. 1913a. “Work to Start on Brilliant White Way.” June 14, Ogden.
43. Strack, Don. 2021. “Railroads in Utah.” Accessed online December 24 at:
https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/r/RAILROADS.shtml
44. Ogden Daily Standard. 1920. “Utah Rapid Transit Files Incorporation.” July 12, Ogden.
45. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1922. “Resist Tearing Up of Tracks.” April 20, Ogden.
46. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1924. “Ogden Street Car System Loses $24,000 in Year.” March 28,
Ogden.
47. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1928. “Ogden Transit Line Reports Drop in Income.” April 14, Ogden.
48. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1926. “Rapid Transit Company Asks Permission to Abandon Line.” May
14, Ogden.
49. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1926. “Agreement on Car Line Made.” October 10, Ogden.
50. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1933. “Abandonment of Service Okehed.” August 23, Ogden.
51. Ogden Standard Examiner. 1935. “Transit Company Pushes Bus Order.” August 6, Ogden.
52. Salt Lake Telegram. 1935 “Commission Okehs Car Tracks Removal.” November 14, Ogden.
53. Salt Lake Telegram. 1936a. “Ogden Street Car System Auctioned.” December 5, Ogden.
54. Salt Lake Telegram. 1936b. “Ogden Transit Sale Ordered.” November 23, Ogden.
55. Ibid.
56. Salt Lake Telegram. 1936a.