Rails East to Ogden comes on the heels of the large push of scholarship that led up to the sesquicentennial of the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad, and it provides an in-depth look at the construction and maintenance of one of the most famous sections of the line, the Promontory Route. Following the model of Anan S. Raymond and Richard E. Fike's 1981 Rails East to Promontory (and its 1994 update), the current authors wrote this expanded volume to once again invite the readers to “use this publication like a historian sitting in the passenger seat” (14). In addition to adding the extra track from Promontory to Ogden, the authors include new information derived from the extensive historical research and archaeological data obtained over the past thirty years. While the volume still reads more like a technical monograph than a popular history, it represents a laudable effort to get...
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