Visit Watercress & Terrace, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah

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In April of 1869, Central Pacific was closing in on building the transcontinental railroad at the agreed meeting point at Promontory Summit with Union Pacific. The 2 companies were allowed a certain amount of acreage on the sides of the track. The Central Pacific built Reno Nevada as well as Terrace and Watercress Utah. Unfortunately a lot of the towns built in the Utah Territory did not last very long. 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 Watercress. The tracks through town became a little-used branchline. The railroad closed its facilities at Terrace, moving the division point to Montello, Nevada. The railroad line through Terrace was finally abandoned in 1942. Many of Terrace's houses and buildings were moved to Montello. The Terrace 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.

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