History of the Rio Grande Depot - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2023
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The Rio Grande Depot is often overlooked as an irrelevant piece of ancient history, isolated and forgotten on the west side of downtown Salt Lake City. In fact, it has one of the most interesting and complete stories to tell about our city, touching on so many important city topics and identities.
In this first part of depot's story, the depot is planned, revised, constructed, opened, and accepted as a central gathering place for Salt Lake City residents and travelers alike.
For more information, this article from ISSU is an amazing resource:
issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_vol...
Many photos provided courtesy of the J. Willard Marriot Digital Library: collections.lib.utah.edu/sear...
Thank you to Zack Clegg for directing me to some amazing archived material, including many of the quotes used in this video.
Additional Voice talent provided by Cameron Blakely (playing Henry Schlacks, the architect), and Matt Givens (playing the West Side resident).
Music:
Billy Goat Stomp - Joel Cummins: • Billy Goat Stomp
The Easy Winners - Scott Joplin
The Ol’ Rio Grande - Christian Lenhart
Hitchcock Would Have… - Chris Zabriskie: • Hitchcock Would Have F...
Stay tuned for Part 2! And in the meanwhile, please check out our website at www.RioGrandePlanSaltLakeCity.org
I was born and raised in Salt Lake and have always enjoyed the unique history of the city and how the it developed around the railroads. I've always felt that the city should use one of the old depots for their intended purpose; a transport hub. I gather from your video that that very idea might become a reality. Obviously, with the construction of the Gateway project, the UP depot is out of the running. But not so for the Rio Grande depot.
I haven't lived in SLC for many years, so I am unaware of what is happening there in regard to transportation. It would be awesome if they returned the depot to it's former glory and purpose. I will follow the development of this with keen interest. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for making this!!
Since I moved to SLC back in 2016 I have wondered the history of the Rio Grande Depot. I truly hope it can become a transit hub once again. I always look down 300S and think, "this would be quite the view if the city would integrate it once again. I truly wish we as a country would expand our passenger rail. If Utah would begin to expand our State sponsored rail we could become an example that freeways and cars are not the end all be all that people believe they are.
Also thank goodness Rio Grande Depot, Ogden Union Station, and the Union Pacific Depot are still standing; unlike New York's original Penn Station and Columbus' Union Station.
I rode TRAX the day it opened.
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A good story for sure, as a Ozzi tourist riding slamtrack from Seatle to The windy City I remember The Depot in Salt Lake City well, we got laid over by the depot around 10pm or just after on a Sunday night due to a derailment on U.P. I went in to the cafe car and had a coke of sorts and a hot dog , ( I got a really crook belly ache we wanted to go to town on the trolly and go to a chemist/drug store to fix my gut but the TOWN was all shut up ) when we got back to the Depot there was a swarm of homeless people had come for a handout of some sort, I reckon it was 2012 never did get a chance to go inside the depot. * have gone back via google earth & yes it's change , lot of track missing.* ( food poisoning not much fun when ya can't find ya travel insurance , was a BUMMER )
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When's part 2?
It's next in line! I've completed the editing up to the 1950's, and at my present pace, I should get the video published sometime next month.
It's definitely a much bigger project now than I realized at the start!
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