Western Pacific Railroad eastbound passenger train crossing the Bonneville Salt Flats near Salduro, Utah (circa 1912)
About 53 years later on October 21, 1965, George Roeder of Ohio achieved a new motorcycle speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats when he traveled nearly 177 miles per hour.
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