Thomasf Hansen News Today

Alex Hamlin, referred to as Alec Hamlin in the 1920 census, was a Finnish immigrant looking for new opportunity in Park City. While Alex could have lived a quiet life barbering and spending time with his family, he instead led his life with a brash temperament.

It seems the Park Record was really trying to sell Prohibition, for many in town were not enjoying it at all – nor was business better.

Park City Museum researcher This July 1905 photo shows the Denver and Rio Grande engine and tender overturned as it headed north out of town to Salt Lake City. Someone had left the switch open. The open switch was not apparent to the engineer until it was too late to stop the forward progress. The Park City Historical Society & Museum, Thomas F. Hansen Collection If you think 2020 is a train wreck, the nascent railroad industry was deluged with train wrecks across the nation in its first 50 yea...