Desert Empire (1948)
Channel: Great Basin Car Shops
Date: 2012-11-17

The full, unabridged, unsplit Desert Empire. This black & white promotional film was made by Universal and commisioned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad to showcase the industries and scenery along the Utah Division.

Typically bombastic narration, but the scenes are priceless. Bingham Canyon is a hole now, the town completely gone; Saltair burned years ago and just this past summer the last traces of the original buildings were razed for safety reasons; Utah's coal is carried in bethgon coalporters, not gondolas, and many of the mines are now closed.

From the Prelinger Archives. Public domain as the copyright has expired.