Bridge: A Railroading Community on the Great Salt Lake By DORIS R. D A N T
not where people would clamor to live but where it was needed — atop the eastern end of the fill forming part of the bed for the train tracks traversing the Great Salt Lake. On top of huge twenty-ton boulders sloping down on two sides to the water there was room for two tracks, a telegraph station on their north side, an old boxcar on one side of it, one or two thrown-together shacks on the other side of it in good years, a water cistern, and a semaphore signal. Actually there was not even that much room, as the shacks h u n g out over the sides and had to be supported by pilings, and the community outhouse rested u p o n
T H E COMMUNITY OF BRIDGE WAS BUILT
Doris Dant is an English instructor at Brigham Young University.
Sy Napper, left, and an unidentified man on a handcar at Bridge. Courtesy of Lydia Napper.
