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Soldier Summit, Utah, the Glossary

Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, United States and an unincorporated community that is a near-ghost town located at the pass.^[1]

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1919 establishments in Utah
1984 disestablishments in Utah
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Former towns in Utah
Populated places disestablished in 1984

Bank engine

A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker), banking engine, helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a gradient (or bank).

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BNSF Railway

BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States.

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California Zephyr

The California Zephyr is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno.

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Camp Floyd State Park Museum

Camp Floyd State Park Museum (formerly known as Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum) is a state park in the Cedar Valley in Fairfield, Utah, United States.

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Carbon County, Utah

Carbon County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Central Corridor (Union Pacific Railroad)

The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Deseret Book Company

Deseret Book is an American publishing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that also operates a chain of bookstores throughout the western United States.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine.

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Domínguez–Escalante expedition

The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of modern day central California.

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Ghost town

A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads.

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Helper, Utah

Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately southeast of Salt Lake City and northwest of the city of Price. Soldier Summit, Utah and Helper, Utah are Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

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Horseshoe curve

A horseshoe curve is a class of climbing curve in a roadbed that reverses turn direction (inflection) twice on either side of a single tight curve that varies through an angle of about 180 degrees or more.

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List of counties in Utah

There are 29 counties in the U.S. state of Utah.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Machine shop

A machine shop or engineering workshop is a room, building, or company where machining, a form of subtractive manufacturing, is done.

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Moffat Tunnel

The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado. Soldier Summit, Utah and Moffat Tunnel are Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

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Mormon pioneers

The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

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Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00).

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Municipal services

Municipal services or city services refer to basic services that residents of a city expect the local government to provide in exchange for the taxes which citizens pay.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Philip St. George Cooke

Philip St.

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Price, Utah

Price is a city in the U.S. state of Utah and the county seat of Carbon County.

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Railfan

A railfan, train fan, rail buff or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter (Australian/British English) or ferroequinologist is a person who is recreationally interested in trains and rail transport systems.

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Raton Pass

Ratón Pass is a 7,834 ft (2,388 m) elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border in the western United States.

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Sherman, Wyoming

Sherman is a ghost town in Albany County, Wyoming, United States.

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Speed limit enforcement

Speed limits are enforced on most public roadways by authorities, with the purpose to improve driver compliance with speed limits.

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State attorney general

The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states, of the federal district, or of any of the territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Tennessee Pass (Colorado)

Tennessee Pass elevation is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. Soldier Summit, Utah and Tennessee Pass (Colorado) are Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.

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Traffic ticket

A traffic ticket is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws.

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Tucker, Utah

Tucker is a ghost town located near the east end of the Spanish Fork River in Utah County, Utah, United States below Soldier Summit on U.S. Route 6. Soldier Summit, Utah and Tucker, Utah are Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and ghost towns in Utah.

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U.S. Route 6 in Utah

U.S. Route 6 (US-6) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway through the central part of the U.S. state of Utah.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Utah County, Utah

Utah County is the second-most populous county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Utah Division (D&RGW)

The Utah Division of the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) is a rail line that connects Grand Junction, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah (formerly Ogden) in the Western United States. Soldier Summit, Utah and Utah Division (D&RGW) are Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_Summit,_Utah

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Soldier Summit, Utah, the Glossary

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1919 establishments in Utah

1984 disestablishments in Utah

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

Former towns in Utah

Populated places disestablished in 1984

References