Tunnel Clearance Test Train
A Union Pacific tunnel clearance test train rolls eastward through Garfield along the former Western Pacific, 20 miles west of Salt Lake City on July 16, 1993. In the background is Kennecott Copper's smelter featuring a 1215 ft. high by 177 ft. diameter smokestack. Completed in 1974. It required 26,317 cubic yards of concrete and 900 short tons of steel in its construction which commenced on August 26, 1974 and finished on November 17th, an 84-day concrete pour. It cost $16.3 million at the time to build. Statistically, it is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world, the forty-third tallest free-standing structure on earth, and the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah.
Tunnel Clearance Test Train
A Union Pacific tunnel clearance test train rolls eastward through Garfield along the former Western Pacific, 20 miles west of Salt Lake City on July 16, 1993. In the background is Kennecott Copper's smelter featuring a 1215 ft. high by 177 ft. diameter smokestack. Completed in 1974. It required 26,317 cubic yards of concrete and 900 short tons of steel in its construction which commenced on August 26, 1974 and finished on November 17th, an 84-day concrete pour. It cost $16.3 million at the time to build. Statistically, it is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world, the forty-third tallest free-standing structure on earth, and the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah.