Repairing the Bamberger Railroad (Highway) Bridge By Tom Lundgren, MAPEI CRS Representative In 1892 the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway became a part of the life of Davis County, Utah with rail being laid as far as Bountiful in that year, and finally reaching from Salt Lake City to Ogden by 1908. Simon Bamberger, a Utah coal-mine operator and railroad entrepreneur, started the railroad in 1891 to transport coal from his mine in Farmington to SLC. He switched it from steam power to an electrified line in 1910. The railroad was an established commuter line for Utah passengers as it stopped at most of the small owns between the two major cities. The Bamberger Railroad Bridge was built in 1934 and converted to a highway bridge in the late 60's or early 70's by the Utah Departmen

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