These pages have been designed to take you on a Virtual tour of Canadian Pacific Railways, Ogden Shops. To proceed with this tour you may use the clickable map below or click on the shop names below the map. At the bottom of this page is our guestbook. Your comments would be appreciated and all entries will be acknowledged. This site also serves up notice to the other repair facilities on the Canadian Pacific Railway network to do something similiar and show the world the fine places that we work in. We have also designed the Ogden Shops web pages to be viewable by all browsers in most resolutions. The photos on these pages are best viewed using 16 bit true color.
Ogden's 75th. anniversary was held in 1988, and to commemorate this event,employees from numerous trades and unions throughout the plant came together to assemble a lasting monument that would be recognizable and a friendly welcome to visitors to Ogden. The "Mechanical Man" named SPIKE, stands 27 feet tall at the entrance to the shops.The first name given to this huge figure was Oggie, and is still called this today by many employees. He is constructed from Locomotive and Freight Car parts. The body is a boiler,the head and ears are gears and the arms and hands are couplers. He is holding a locomotive engine crankshaft in his right hand.
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