Honeyville - Corinne - Heber Depot

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Honeyville (24x57) With 16-foot platform; shown on OSL station map dated 1948; OSL standard design; moved to Corinne, Utah; currently survives at Heber City, Utah.

1909
"A new railroad station is being erected on the Oregon Short Line at Honeyville, ten miles north of this city. The building will contain an office, waiting room, freight and express rooms, and living apartments on the second floor. An agent will be appointed by the railroad company when the depot is completed." (Salt Lake Herald, July 23, 1909)

"The new depot is now completed at Honeyville, and will be ready for occupancy this week. The carpenter gang which constructed the building is now erecting a station at Preston." (Box Elder News, September 16, 1909)

(Records of the Union Pacific Railroad in January 1951 showed that the Honeyville depot was still an active agency station selling passenger tickets, accepting freight and express business, and had a functioning telegraph service.)

On October 6, 1958, the Utah Public Commission held a public hearing in Brigham City to hear comments about Union Pacific's application to close its Honeyville agency station as a public service. The station would continue to operate, but only for internal company purposes, known as a non-agency station. (Utah PSC case 4646)

On March 30, 1959, Union Pacific donated the Honeyville depot to the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, at no charge. The depot was to be moved for display at Pioneer Village at Corinne, Utah. The depot was to be moved at the society's own expense by May 9, 1959, and placed on property leased by the society at Corinne, Utah. (Union Pacific Purchasing Department Sale Order No. 337, Omaha, dated March 30, 1959, with accompanying internal communications dated April 1, 1959)

The February 1st and 2nd, 1979 issues of the Summit County Bee newspaper included photos of the depot still at Corinne, and the following, "The museum also includes the old Honeyville Depot, which was moved to Corinne when the museum was established in 1957 [sic: 1959] under the direction of the late Horace Sorenson of Salt Lake City. Inside the depot are old telegraph equipment, model trains and other artifacts related to the steam era. The museum and rolling stock will probably be moved to Heber City in six months to a year. It's new home will be adjacent to trackage owned by the State Park near the Heber Depot."

The "trains" were to be moved into the Corinne railroad museum "tomorrow" (April 15). The depot from Honeyville was to be moved to the museum site in the "latter part of this week." (Ogden Standard Examiner, April 14, 1959)

The two locomotives were pulled into place "yesterday" (April 15) while a crowd of 100 onlookers watched. "Today" (April 16) the historic Honeyville depot started its 15-mile journey on trucks, to be placed on a foundation already completed at the Corinne museum site. (Ogden Standard Examiner, April 16, 1959)

A photo of the depot being moved was in the May 8, 1980 issue of the Wasatch Wave newspaper, "The Corinne depot made its way to Heber this week via road transportation. The depot will be part of the TPS railroad museum and village."

A photo in the July 31, 1980 issue of the Wasatch Wave newspaper shows the depot in place at Heber.

The Heber Creeper Railroad Museum, inside the former Corinne depot, one of three museums on-site, opened on November 28, 1980.

The former Honeyville-Corinne-Heber depot was abandoned on-site with the reorganization of the Heber Creeper operation in 1992, when the railroad operations were moved several thousand feet to the south, off of property owned by the New London company. The depot remained as property of the New London company, although actual ownership was in dispute for several years.

I saw it during my visit in April 2016, at which time the depot building had been moved, and was stored raised up on timber cribbing, awaiting further disposition.

By April 2021, the depot had been moved again, to a site adjacent to the former D&RGW Heber depot near the intersection of Center Street and 6th West. A Google Street View in July 2024 shows the depot still at that location.

(The D&RGW depot had been closed since the agent was removed after a December 14, 1967 hearing before the Utah Public Service Commission. -- Utah PUC Case 5912)

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