Bernice Gibbs Anderson, Golden Spike Oral History Project, GS-4 and GS-5, August 9, 1974, American West Center, University of Utah

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ANDERSON 10 A: I don't know what they were hunting, ducks mostly the, and rabbits and pheasants and maybe the pheasants weren.'t here then, but there were other birds that they hunted, and the train would come along and stop and let that crew off, . and then it would pull up, oh maybe a quarter of a mile, and stop again and the . passengers would get off and pace up and down the track. T: Waiting? A: Waiting. And this brakemen or whoever they were, the crew on the train, would go back to the train eventually, and they'd go on m~ybe for another mile and stop again. P: You mean they'd wait for these men tow~. their way up through the field. A: Yes, and theses passengers, I can just imagine what they went through trying to get somewhere on that train. That's the way it was run later. That was around in 1910. ~ remember it to '20 something along like that seems. T: When's the last time you remember a passenger car being hooked onto the train to go up there? A: Oh, well, I think they always carried a passenger car. T: Did they? P: , At least one? A: Yes. They rescued a flyer that was down there close to the railroad. Came down in the snowstorm. Saved his life. He managed to get to the railroad and • . T: Somebody was telling us that in the last years of the railroad if there were any passengers to go up there, they went up in the aaboose. Did you, did you ever ride up in the caboose? A: No~ never rode in one. T: But they did •.• that served as a passenger ca ~ later.