No, I don't count this as rail miles! I had a nice walk and the pictures are below. Pictures from my hike this beautiful morning. I returned to the room and wrote this before Robin and I left and drove over to Heber City for breakfastĪt MacDonald's, then we drove over to the railroad. It operates passenger excursion trains along a line between Heber City and The Heber Valley Railroad is a heritage railroad based in Heber City, Utah. Vivian Park, which is located in Provo Canyon, carrying over 94,000 passengers a year. The railroad line is approximately 16 miles long. There are a total of four passing sidings A typical round trip ride on the train takes about 3 hours. Notable landmarks seen from the train include Mount Timpanogos, Cascade Mountain, Deer Creek Dam and Reservoir, Provo River, Sundance Ski Resort, Tate Barn and Soldier Hollow. A variety of wildlife including deer, eagles, fox, moose, turkeys, hawks, mountain lions (cougars) and beavers have all been seen from the train as well. The Heber Valley Railroad has two 1907 Baldwin 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotives: former Union Pacific No. 75, although they are both out of service pending completion of their 1,472 day inspections and service. Also on display is former Columbia Steel Company 0-6-0 No. The HVRX is home to four EMD diesel-electric locomotives: Ex-Union Pacific EMD NW2 No. 1813, as well as Ex-United States Army Transportation Corps Baldwin (rebuilt with a Caterpillar prime mover) RS4TC-1Ĥ028. It also has a former United States Army Davenport 44-ton diesel-electric locomotive No. 1218, which is very similar to a GE 44-ton switcher. Recently in 2018, the railroad purchased 3 GP9's which are numbers 52, 72, and 77 from New England's Pan Am Railway. With the arrival of the GP9s, the Heber Valley's former U.S. The next section is Howe Township, then Jenks Township which includes Marienville then Rail 66 Country Trail which maintains the beginning of the rail trail in Clarion County.The line operated by the HVRX was formerly part of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad branch line that connected Heber City to Provo, Utah. TAMED ( Trail Association of the McKean- Elk Divide) will continue developing and maintaining the next section of rail trail from US Route 219 to Russell City in Highland Township (see our PARTNERS page). Our club is responsible for maintenance of both sections of trail. We have developed another section of the Knox & Kane Rail Trail from Mt Jewett to Lantz Corners (3.65 miles) Click HERE to see our progress along this section. Today, the MJ2KB Trail Club (with over 60 members) are stewards of the Knox & Kane Rail Trail from the Kinzua Bridge State Park to Mt Jewett (3.8 miles). (As of September 2022, 49 miles of rail trail have been completed.) Plans are now in the works for municipalities and trail groups along the corridor to develop and maintain the 73.5 mile Knox & Kane Rail Trail that travels through four counties (Clarion, Forest, Elk & McKean). Headwaters Charitable Trust completed the purchase of the corridor in 2017. The MJ2KB T Club was unable to convince the McKean County Commissioners, and other stake holders, the significance of keeping the rails on the corridor. For two years the group advocated to save the rails and when finally given the chance to purchase a section of the abandoned railroad grade from Mr Kovalchick the group fell short of the money needed to do so. In 2015 the Mt Jewett to Kinzua Bridge Trail Club was established and eventually took a stand to Build the Trail and Save the Rails. Click HERE to read a brief summary of the Knox & Kane Rail Road’s history. The Knox Kane Feasibility Study was completed in August 2011. The Knox & Kane Rail Road corridor was no longer being used, and it made sense to convert it into a rail-trail. In 2009, the Kovalchick Corporation filed for an abandonment exception of the railroad, and the Kovalchick Family Trust filed to rail-bank the corridor for interim trail use. The Knox-Kane Railroad was sold at auction in 2008 to the Kovalchick Corporation, a steel scrap company based in Indiana, PA. The tourist train limped on into 2006, when it ceased operations due to lack of ridership. Although the tourism market became more important to the Knox & Kane Railroad as freight deliveries in the region decreased, the tourism operation suffered a fatal blow when a section of the Kinzua Viaduct was toppled by a tornado in 2003. In addition to transporting freight, such as coal, the Knox & Kane Railroad ran a tourist operation from Marienville through Kane across the Viaduct at Kinzua Bridge State Park. The primary function of the railroad was to provide service between Knox in Clarion County and Kane and Mt. The Knox & Kane Railroad began operations after it acquired the right-of-way from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1982.
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