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Viewing Album:  Union Pacific's Cache Valley Branch
 
By:Richard Kundert
Dates:6/1/1989 - 5/21/1996
Album Info:UP's Cache Valley branch starts at MP 0.2 at Cache Jct. Utah and runs in a "U" shape to Preston, ID, MP 50.8. The valley got its name from French trappers who cached beaver pelts here in the 1820's. The Cache Valley was settled by the Mormons in 1859...farming, grazing and dairy made up the economy. The Utah Northern began construction in the valley in the early 1870's. Sugar Beets became the prominent crop and the railroad kept busy hauling inbound coal and limestone to the sugar factories and outbound beets, sugar, perishables and evaporated milk. After WWII, the beet business was in decline, ceasing in 1979. At the time of these photos, the Cache Valley local would leave Cache Jct. on Monday's and spent the rest of the week working to Preston and Cache Jct. on alternate days returning each evening to Logan. On Fridays it returned to Cache Jct. In the 1990's, traffic consisted of outbound wheat, inedible beef tallow and empty tin cans. Inbound traffic included plastic pellets and cardboard. Interestingly, the route of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho interurban line closely followed the Cache Valley branch from Mendon to Preston.
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Union Pacific 3687
Title:  Union Pacific 3687
Description:  A freshly painted SD40-2 is tied up at the Logan depot
Photo Date:  6/1/1989  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:33:49 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3687(SD40N)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 3129
Title:  Union Pacific 3129
Description:  The local has an unusually long train as it leave Logan late one afternoon
Photo Date:  8/23/1989  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:34:59 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3129(SD40-2)
Views:  1589   Comments: 5
Union Pacific 2497
Title:  Union Pacific 2497
Description:  C30-7s made an occasional appearance on the branch.
Photo Date:  11/23/1989  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:35:59 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Night,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2497(C30-7)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 3344
Title:  Union Pacific 3344
Description:  3344 is at Ballard Jct., just north of Petersboro. The short-lived Benson branch (also known as the Ballard Cutoff) between Ballard Jct and Benson Jct (MP 24.5) served agricultural customers and was removed by the 1950's. All that remains is the wye north of the Logan depot.
Photo Date:  2/8/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:56:50 PM
Location:  Petersboro, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3344(SD40-2)
Views:  344   Comments: 2
Union Pacific 665
Title:  Union Pacific 665
Description:  Former Western Pacific 3516 is near Mendon with the snow capped Wellsville Mountains in the background. A branch extended from Mendon to Logan to handle beet and potatoe traffic, but was abandoned by 1932.
Photo Date:  5/25/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:38:16 PM
Location:  Mendon, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 665(GP40)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 657
Title:  Union Pacific 657
Description:  GP40 657 and its caboose are tied up at the Logan depot. This was the last open branchline station in Utah. It was closed as an agency in 1986, but remained in use by the section crew until being sold in 1993.
Photo Date:  6/18/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:40:04 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 657(GP40)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 909
Title:  Union Pacific 909
Description:  Northbound at Smithfield. The west's largest pea cannery was located at Smithfield.
Photo Date:  7/26/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:40:44 PM
Location:  Smithfield, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 909(GP40-2)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 909
Title:  Union Pacific 909
Description:  Switching at Presto, MP 41.5. The 909 was originally built for the Western Pacific
Photo Date:  7/26/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:42:38 PM
Location:  Preston, ID
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 909(GP40-2)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 121
Title:  Union Pacific 121
Description:  A former Missouri Pacific B23-7 is the power for the week. The local is preparing to leave Logan for Cache Jct.
Photo Date:  8/1/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:44:02 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 121(B23-7)
Views:  318   Comments: 1
Union Pacific 2451
Title:  Union Pacific 2451
Description:  South of Logan on the roudtrip to Cache Jct.
Photo Date:  10/17/1990  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:45:02 PM
Location:  Logan, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2451(C30-7)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 2376
Title:  Union Pacific 2376
Description:  At the end of the line at Preston. The 2376 is being turned on the wye for the trip back to Logan
Photo Date:  7/15/1993  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:46:30 PM
Location:  Preston, ID
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2376(GP38-2)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 2376
Title:  Union Pacific 2376
Description:  Passing through Franklin
Photo Date:  7/15/1993  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:57:41 PM
Location:  Franklin, ID
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2376(GP39-2)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 1572
Title:  Union Pacific 1572
Description:  This GP15 smokes it up a bit near Hyrum. The military vehicles on the flat cars are a mystery. Possibly a Reserve unit being transported for exercises??
Photo Date:  5/15/1996  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:48:01 PM
Location:  Hyrum, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1572(GP15-1)
Views:  303   Comments: 1
Union Pacific 1572
Title:  Union Pacific 1572
Description:  Arriving at Preston, ID
Photo Date:  5/21/1996  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:49:23 PM
Location:  Preston, ID
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1572(GP15-1)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 1572
Title:  Union Pacific 1572
Description:  Departing Preston for the 27 mile trip back to Logan. Preston was the setting for the 2004 comedy, Napolean Dynamite: A story about a listless and alienated teenager.
Photo Date:  5/21/1996  Upload Date: 6/26/2016 3:50:28 PM
Location:  Preston, ID
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1572(GP15-1)
Views:  342   Comments: 2

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