Utah Northern Railroad

The railroad has passed through Honeyville for over a century, causing me to do lot of research on the Utah Northern Railroad, as I believe much of Honeyville's history is wrapped up in having a train pass through town in 1872.

I presented some information on the railroad previously.
Railroading


This is an 1878 Baldwin engine (2-6-0 for RR geeks) that would have passed through Honeyville as engine #13 on what had become the Utah & Northern Railway.  The photo was taken in 1880, but people, location, and occasion are all unknown to me.

U&N Rwy #13 - 1880 (Arthur Petersen Collection)

In the summer of 2017 I was able to visit the California State Railroad Museum. It is a great way to spend some time if you are ever in the Sacramento area.  While there I took a photo of my son in front of engine #13, which over many transactions, had ended its service as Engine #1 for Nevada Short Line.  It is only one of three or four engines that still exist from the UNRR.

Image this engine passing through Honeyville with some freight and a Pullman car. Photo 2017 - Jay Miller

I would love to have seen this engine in its day.  A note, all the engines on the UNRR were coal burning, no wood.  The old cinders still lie beneath the rail beds.

I picked up a lot of great information from the Colorado Rail Annual No. 15 (published by the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1981).
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Railroading

Since I really believe railroading served as an important catalyst in the further growth of young Honeyville, I think it is fun to find anything from the old narrow gauge railroad, the Utah Northern Railroad.  Below is one of the handful of pictures I have found showing the one of the engines that ran that line.  I also include a picture of some spikes that I recently found that belonged to the narrow gauge track - laid in 1872 and replaced about 15 years later with broad gauge track.

Regular railroad spike next to narrow gauge spikes

This was one of the UNRR first cars, but had been transferred to another line in this photo