Western Railroad Discussion > Depot, Cedar City, UT

Used to be another "Gateway to the National Parks".
What year was it last used?
Gus

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As part of the service cutbacks, UP stopped running the Utah Parks Special seasonal trains into Cedar City and, instead, started dispatching the tour buses to/from the station at Lund, on the mainline. I'm not sure what year that took place.

There was a good article in the UP Historical Society's magazine, THE STREAMLINER, that covered the Cedar City train-bus operation. There used to be a balloon track behind the station with some stub tracks contained within the balloon track.

At the peak of the Utah Parks train-bus tour business, there used to be a rest facility / meal dining hall in Kanab, UT where the bus passengers took a rest and meal break. I have never seen a photo of this facility and do not know if it still exists.

Thanks for the info!

Gus

My guess at this point would be 1969.

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I'm pretty sure they quit running the passenger train into Cedar City sometime in the late 1950s. I have a brochure from 1962 outlining the train-bus tours and everything was being done from Lund.

There were several special trains in the late sixties, for some reason
1969 sticks.

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callum_out Wrote:
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> There were several special trains in the late sixties, for some reason 1969 sticks.

You're not confusing those with a couple of special trains that ran in 1969 for the Brown Bros. - Harriman banking firm are you?  Those were two trains of about twenty cars each, plus a pilot train, that ran from Seattle to Ketchum, ID for a big conference that was at Sun Valley.  

TRAINS magazine had some photos of those trains taken by the Henry Griffiths father-and-son team betwen Boise and Orchard.  Those are the ONLY photos I've seen of those trains.