The Lynndyl Subdivision is a

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owned and operated by the

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in the

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, running from

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southwest to

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, where the Caliente Subdivision continues towards

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.Agreement Between Union Pacific Railroad Company and Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
, effective February 1, 2000 (includes a list of subdivisions from the first post-merger timetable in 1998) It was formerly part of the

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and a section currently forms a segment of Union Pacific's Central Corridor. The subdivision is named for Lynndyl, a small community along the rail line. The highest elevation attained on the line is at Tintic.

History

Mormon businessmen incorporated the Utah Southern Railroad in 1871 to build a

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line from Salt Lake City south to Payson. It was built by the construction company Grover, McCune & Read, a firm owned by Alfred W. McCune and two other Utah businessmen.Whitney, Orson Ferguson. ''History of Utah.'' Salt Lake City: G.Q. Cannon, 1904, p. 506
Jensen, Andrew. ''Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia.'' Salt Lake City: A. Jenson History Co., 1920, p. 495; Massey, Peter and Wilson, Jeanne. ''Utah Trails: Northern Region.'' Hermosa Beach, Calif.: Adler Publishing, 2006, p. 211. It was completed to that city and beyond to

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(south of Santaquin) in 1875, and bought by the

later that year. The UP organized the Utah Southern Railroad Extension in 1879, and completed the line to Frisco in 1880. Both companies merged with the Utah Central Railroad (Salt Lake City- Ogden) to form the UP-controlled Utah Central Railway in 1881, and in 1889 it was merged with the

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and other companies to form the

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, which was reorganized as the

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in 1897.Don Strack
UtahRails.net: Union Pacific in Utah, 1868-1899
accessed August 2008 The Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad was incorporated in 1872 to build west from Salt Lake City, and the Utah Western Railway, organized in 1874, acquired its unfinished roadbed and completed the

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line to a point near Stockton in 1877. The company was reorganized in 1881 as the

Utah and Nevada Railway The Lynndyl Subdivision is a rail line owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in the U.S. state of Utah, running from Salt Lake City southwest to Milford, where the Caliente Subdivision continues towards Los Angeles.

, and the UP gained control later that year, merging it into the

in 1889. The Oregon Short Line later converted the track to and extended the line south to the old Utah Southern at Lynndyl, west of Leamington. This new Leamington Cut-off, completed in 1903, had better

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s and alignment than the old route through Payson, which became a secondary route (and is now, where still in use, the

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). The

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, half-owned by the OSL, bought the OSL's lines south and west of Salt Lake City later that year, and completed the line to Los Angeles in 1905. The short piece of the old line from

, where the new Los Angeles line left, west to Frisco became the

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, and was abandoned in 1943. After the UP bought the

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in 1983, the two parallel lines between Salt Lake City and

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, where the ex-WP

Shafter Subdivision The Shafter Subdivision is a rail line owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in the U.S. states of Nevada and Utah. The line begins as a continuation of the Elko Subdivision at the Elko freight yards, and travels east to the junction w ...

now begins, were converted to a

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setup.Don Strack
UtahRails.net: Union Pacific in Utah, 1900-1996
accessed August 2008

References

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