User:NE2/D&RGW Castle Valley

Is this the grade? This probably is, given that just to the northwest it appears on topos. Is this the branch shown on the 1885 map? It seems to disappear soon after. This is probably a junction shown on the map. I can't see much of the line southwest from there, but this is probably part of it. The line north from the junction is visible to at least here, and picks up again here after the farmland. This is probably part of it, beyond which it's again gone.

  


 * 1885 map:

This appears to be from the 1908 consolidation.
 * 36. From a point at or near Green River, in Emery County, Utah, westerly and northwesterly along Saleratus Wash to a point on Clark's Valley Guide Meridian, near Chimney Rocks; thence in a general westerly direction along said Saleratus Wash to a point on the divide between Saleratus Wash and San Rafael River near the Castle Valley Guide Meridian; thence in a general westerly direction crossing the valley of Huntington Creek to Castledale, in Castle Valley; thence southwesterly through Castle Valley to a point on the western boundary line of Emery County near its intersection with Ivie Creek; thence continuing in a general southwesterly direction to the divide between Ivie Creek and Meadow Creek; thence northwesterly following the valley of Meadow Creek to the terminus of the COMPANY'S constructed line near Nioche, in Sevier County; with a branch...


 * 1902 description (from Farnham)
 * April 1881: speculation that they may bypass Castle Valley
 * 1882: Buckhorn Flat construction stopped
 * 1902: old survey used
 * Was to be a low grade line: 1902 1909
 * 1900: San Pedro via Cedar City
 * 1900: D&RG and RGW were competing
 * 1911: "it has become almost a joke"
 * 1882: still through Castle Valley ("Cedar Mesas" AKA Cedar Mountain); some grading done west of Sevier
 * May 1881: Sevier Valley Railway described: already along the U&PV; also mentions "Cedar Mesa"
 * December 1880: Sevier Valley Railway incorporated