PostalPast
← Back to browse

Eastern Express No. 6 crossing the Lucin Cut-off trestle, Great Salt Lake, Utah, circa 1910

Subjects
Bridges & DamsRailroads & Trains
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1902 (Early)
Front of Eastern Express No. 6 crossing the Lucin Cut-off trestle, Great Salt Lake, Utah, circa 1910, Charlotte Bassett, MA, USA, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
Front
Back of Eastern Express No. 6 crossing the Lucin Cut-off trestle, Great Salt Lake, Utah, circa 1910, Charlotte Bassett, MA, USA, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
Back

About this postcard

A long steam-hauled passenger train, headed by a locomotive trailing smoke, crosses a timber trestle that runs in a low diagonal line across open water and flats. The printed caption names it as the Southern Pacific's Eastern Express No. 6 on the Lucin Cut-off, the great wooden trestle built across the Great Salt Lake in Utah and opened in 1904, which shortened the transcontinental route by eliminating the climb over Promontory. The card shows the trestle as it appeared before the timber structure was replaced by a rock fill causeway in the 1950s.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

The Lake is 29 miles wide when the R.R. crosses it. The wonder trestle is 12 miles long and the remaining 17 miles of road bed was built of shale and Rock. At Cost 4,500,000

8047 Eastern Express No. 6, Passing Over Lucin Cut-off. --- POST CARD THIS SPACE CAN BE USED FOR A WRITTEN MESSAGE USING ONE-CENT STAMP
PostmarkedWaltham, MA, MA
Stamp
Addressed to
Charlotte Bassett

Amesbury, MA, MA

Postcard record

PostmarkedWaltham, MA, MA
Series8047
ConditionGood
Place addressedCharlotte Bassett, Amesbury, MA, MA
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated on all sides
NotesRed printed caption and card number along top edge; visible halftone dot screen; crease and scuffing at upper left corner and a diagonal surface mark across the sky. Postmark: WALTHAM MASS 1908 (day/month obscured by the ornate POST CARD design). Divided-back card with one-cent Franklin stamp; light edge wear and toning.

Cite this card

Eastern Express No. 6 crossing the Lucin Cut-off trestle, Great Salt Lake, Utah, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/eastern-express-no-6-crossing-the-lucin-cut-off-trestle-grea. Accessed October 25, 2026.