Update on the train station

1989 commemorative steam powered passenger train passing Honeyville

I have a little better understanding of what you can see in the photos on an earlier post of the Honeyville train station.  I talked to Joanne Tanaka this evening who lived in the upper portion of the train station for 22 years.  During WWII she just was seven or eight years old, but that was the peak of rail service through town.  During those years the station was staffed 24-hours per day, the morning shift by Mrs. Tanaka's father.  During those years she recalls all the soldiers constantly passing through and how they would all wave to her family as they went by.

What did not make sense to me in the photos were the outbuildings, especially since there really is not very much room between the tracks and the road at that point.  Those photos are looking south and the outbuildings are a coal shed and the outhouses.

Unfortunately the photos I have posted are the best photos I know to exist.

See post The Train Stations

This is what the train station area looks like now.  The rubble of the old foundation is just behind this scene.

The shed to the left was used by railroad workers. They kept their equipment there to inspect and work on the tracks. They even had their own little kitchen inside.

Just for fun, what might the menu look like on a train from 1943?

1943 lunch menu on the Union Pacific

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