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Wendover - Straddles the UT/NV borders, West Wendover (shown) is in Nevada, and Wendover is in Utah

Wendover is a city in Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,537 at the 2000 census, with a 2006 estimated population of 1,632. Wendover is on the western border of Utah, and is contiguous with West Wendover, Nevada. The town was established in 1908 as a station stop on the Western Pacific Railroad, then under construction.

The transcontinental telephone line was completed as workers raised the final pole at Wendover, Utah on June 27, 1914, after construction of 3,400 miles of telephone line. However, the line was not initiated until January 25, 1915, when the first transcontinental telephone call was made to coincide with the opening of the Panama Pacific Exposition.

From 1917 to 1939, a Western Pacific subsidiary known as the Deep Creek Railroad also operated into Wendover. The Western Pacific became part of the larger Union Pacific Railroad in 1983.

During World War II, the nearby Wendover Army Air Field was a training base for bomber pilots, including the crew of the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay was stationed here until June 1945.

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Enola Gay hangar

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Old Wendover Army Airfield barracks


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Wendover Army Airfield

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Bonneville Salt Flats, just four miles east of Wendover

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Bonneville Salt Flats

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