Finally... the old train station revisited

 I was finally in the Heber area and was able to go get some pictures of the old Honeyville train station.

 What I was really excited about was that I could get inside.  Unfortunately, so could everybody else - it was pretty trashed.

Doorknob

Sliding freight door

The money drawer (note: no money found inside the money drawer)

A quick recap of the old stations journey.  Originally built in Honeyville it served the community for several years as the Union Pacific train depot.  At some point it was moved to Corinne to act as a station there, but that was short lived as it was called into duty as the Golden Spike train museum.  As the centennial of the driving of the golden spike drew near the Golden Spike National Historic Site was dedicated 1957. Thinking nobody would ever actually drive clear out there the Son's of the Utah Pioneers opened a museum in Corinne using the old train station in 1959.  Once the Park Service realized people were driving 'clear out there' and local citizens had staged reenactments each 10th day of May, they finally built a visitor's center in 1978.  The old train station then moved up to Heber City, Utah in 1980, where is became the train station for the Heber Creeper until the early 1990s. The Heber Valley Railroad built their own station and the Honeyville station now sits abandoned in a parking lot a few block north of the current Heber Valley Railroad station.

This has one of the original track switching levers

Upstairs living quarters.

Inside of the ticket counter

Ticket windows (although the signs are newer)

To my knowledge there are no pictures of the interior as it originally sat in Honeyville.
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I did find some pictures of it in Corinne.

While in Corinne in 1977 - courtesy John Pack

Courtesy Paul on Flickr (scanned image from Ebay)

The move to Heber City - Deseret News 1980

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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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The Train Stations

Oddly enough Honeyville was better served by "mass transit" 100 years ago than today.  In fact for a time their were two rail lines making stops in Honeyville, one being the electric rail and the other the Oregon Short Line Rail Road.

Looking down at the intersection of 6980 N 2750 W I have superimposed the location of the station

This is labeled as Honeyville, and it is the correct building, but it seems misplaced to me

This is labeled as Honeyville, and it is the correct building, but it seems misplaced to me

The old train station was first moved to Corinne, then to Heber, and as of 2013, a parking lot in Heber

This is taken looking east

A clip from Box Elder News & Journal - 1917

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