Terrace, Utah

File:Terrace Switchyard, facing west, c1980.jpg

The town was established April 1, 1869, as a Central Pacific Railroad "division point" (operations base), on the route of the First transcontinental railroad and included a 16-stall roundhouse and an eight-track switchyard. Terrace was dependent on the railroad throughout its history. The town may have had 1,000 people at peak, including a sizeable population of Chinese railway construction workers.{{cite news |last1=Gershon |first1=Livia |title=Artifacts Used by Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers Found in Utah |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artifacts-from-chinese-transcontinental-railroad-workers-found-in-utah-180978935/ |access-date=29 October 2021 |work=Smithsonian |date=16 October 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Raymond |first1=Anan S. |last2=Fike |first2=Richard E. |title=RAILS EAST TO PROMONTORY The Utah Stations |date=1994 |publisher=Bureau of Land Management |url=http://npshistory.com/publications/blm/cultresser/ut/8/sec2b.htm |access-date=29 October 2021}}

The former town (as well as the nearby Terrace Mountain) was named for the shoreline terraces of the former Lake Bonneville in the area.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3Pqk9tazU4C&q=terrace|title=Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: A Compilation|last=Van Cott|first=John W.|publisher=University of Utah Press|location=Salt Lake City|page=367|year=1990|accessdate=17 Jul 2020|isbn=978-0-87480-345-7|oclc=797284427}}

In 1904 the Southern Pacific Railroad, successor to the Central Pacific, completed the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake. The new route bypassed Terrace, and the tracks through town became a little-used branchline. The railroad closed its facilities at Terrace, moving the division point to Montello, Nevada, about {{convert|40|mi|km}} to the west–southwest. The railroad line through Terrace was finally abandoned in 1942. Many of Terrace's houses and buildings were moved to Montello. The cemetery still remains with only three headstones, and only a pile of red bricks and the outline of the turntable is next to the old railroad bed.

The tracks along the grade were removed in 1942.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=94001423}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Transcontinental Railroad Grade|last=Van Moorleghem|first=Gail|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|date=May 1994|accessdate=July 1, 2020}} With {{NRHP url|id=94001423|photos=y|title=accompanying six photos from 1992}} The grade was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, as part of the Central Pacific Railroad Grade Historic District. In 1993 the Bureau of Land Management designated the grade as part of the Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway.

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• List of ghost towns in Utah

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• {{cite book|title=The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns|last=Carr|first=Stephen L.|publisher=Western Epics|year=1974|location=Salt Lake City|pages=12}}
• {{cite book| title = Connecting The West: Historic Railroad Stops And Stage Stations In Elko County, Nevada|last=Hall|first=Shawn|publisher=University of Nevada Press|location=Reno, Nevada|year=2002|pages=74–76|isbn=978-0-87417-499-1}}
• {{Cite book|last=Raymond|first=Anan S.|title=Rails East to Promontory: The Utah Stations (The Promontory Branch Stations)|last2=Fike|first2=Richard E.|publisher=US Bureau of Land Management|year=1994|series=Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 8|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/blm/ut/8/index.htm|language=English}}

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