Final run of the Union Pacific Park City branch in 1989

[@dadfk52]

Great Video.In my 43 years of Truck driving spent a lot of time driving thru Utah.great scenery.Thanks.

[@DarkTerritory71]

I have mentioned this a couple if times before! but you and her make this Show! she is the perfect sidekick! great history!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We have FUN!!!! That's the key. We are off chasing a guy building a 1950 gas station and garage AND a short line railroad all in the same town. And there are 2 juke boxes and a pinball involved. Hum... OH, and a brothel.

[@DarkTerritory71]

Toy Man Television can't wait to see

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

We sure have a lot of fun together! I think that is about all there is to it.... Having fun together!! :D

[@dannyholt105]

A brothel? Really? That ought to be interesting enough! Can't wait to see what the staff is gonna' look like! Cheers, Dan

[@ToyManTelevision]

Seedy too. WAY seedy. With a gaming hall in back!!

[@chichi41]

It's great to see a couple enjoying life with one another.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! We do have fun!! Just packing for a trip!

[@sdj9776]

Awesome shots of Echo. It’s my grandfather’s hometown. A large number of the people in that cemetery are my relatives. They also built that church. My grandfather worked as a fireman on the UP running Challengers and Big Boys. My mom and her siblings would go out to the mainline when visiting their cousins in Echo to wave to their dad as he made steam to pull trains up Weber and Echo Canyons! Thanks for posting. The land on the other side of the Echo river from the town is still in the family. We used to fish trout out of it and watch the trains climb up to and run down from Evanston. .

[@PeterCPRail8748]

another fantastic trip down history lane. I liked how compared the sites in the videos and how they look today.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Some fun too. i a week ore two. Or three, not sure, we are on the Uinata Rail Road. Gone but not forgotten.

[@robertd.shannon9007]

Another great video. I liked seeing Weber Canyon as well. Thanks.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for watching

[@upsd402]

Great video, love how you recount history.

[@ToyManTelevision]

People keep pointing out the stuff I get wrong (sad) SO thinks!!!! (I do get some little stuff wrong... )

[@kerridillon3120]

Dale & Karyn- thanks for another fun adventure! You two seem so well suited to one another...a pleasure to watch! Hello to the Rat Fink! Be sure to bring him with you to Southern California so I can take y'all out to Olive Garden!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. We are great together!!

[@johnfrench908]

Not sure how anyone could give this couple a thumbs down. Like ur posts!! Keep them coming!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for that!!

[@reellegendsexpeditions5966]

Great fun watching your presentations, for those who travel to Echo be sure to visit the very old cemetery behind the church, some of Utah's early pioneers rest in peace at this moving location.

[@ToyManTelevision]

A must see.

[@Cnw8701]

Those Dash 8's, Dash 9's, and other locomotives are being stored as spare units since traffic is currently slumping right now, and they are also being replaced with newer, Tier 4 models (like the SD70ACe-T4 and ET44AC).

[@ToyManTelevision]

I don't know modern units. Love the antique iron. Love ANY train however!!!

[@Cnw8701]

Toy Man Television Hey, I know all about modern North American diesels, with the exception of rebuilds! 😁

[@Cnw8701]

Toy Man Television Just about everything from the EMD FT to the GE ET44AC! Including rare production variants of common models, like the GP40P-2, which is a rare passenger variant of the original GP40-2 (only three were ever built specially for the SP's San Francisco Bay Area commuter service). Two are in service with UP (UP #1373 and UP #1375). One, however, was sold to the Indiana Harbor Belt, and had its long-hood rebuilt.

[@Cnw8701]

Toy Man Television And I even saw UP #1375 on a number of occasions working in and out of the yards in El Paso, TX when I was living there several years back.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I gave up after the F9. Good as it gets for me.

[@gofftershnit]

I love these videos. Thanks for allowing me to "screw around" with you. I have always been a railroad, and Utah History fan. Good to know some of these things.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sad to loose that line. They talked about moving the heber valley railroad there. At that time heber was in doubt. Anyway didn’t happen. A scenic railroad in park city. How could it fail?

[@barrymeyer2805]

Thank you for your videos they are very informative.

[@ggsumner1947]

Great history lesson. Really enjoyed it.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. A fun day for sure!!!!

[@microbusss]

I did see that bed in the middle of I-80 knew it was a railroad but didn't know the story on it pretty cool vid

[@ToyManTelevision]

Great history!!

[@microbusss]

agree

[@crystalrock18]

Even the waiter is now not only a star but also a super cool person like all of us subscribers.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

He was super cool! He played the roll perfectly!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Food was great!! Never guess it was cocked in the boiler of a steam engine.

[@crystalrock18]

Now thats cool! you and your wife are a great duo and I look forward to every sunday night when I come from work to watch what you guys post. Keep up the screwing around, I always look forward to y'alls adventures! Andy

[@PatrickMondor]

Your vids are simply fantastic. Love seeing you guys screwing around the West. Keep it up!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

We hope to encourage others to do the same! It's fun to discover the world around us..... It keeps one young!! :D

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks we will!!! Having a ball doing it too.

[@dannyholt105]

Great video you guys! Dale don't sweat a small mistake now and again. If we wanted perfect reporting we would watch Walter Cronkite's train videos on KZbin. Oh wait, he doesn't have any train videos on KZbin. Thanks for sharing the great information. Cheers, Dan

[@ToyManTelevision]

Danny Holt thanks! I don't think I've ever gotten one of these 100% correct as long as I get them 100% fun I don't care

[@jeanneuzarhudson8207]

Just what we needed after a day of "shlepping rocks". Moving phosphates on this abandoned railroad. Great editing and narration, as always. Carry on with your most excellent pursuit of screwing around. Greg and Jeanne.

[@ToyManTelevision]

What's the other name of a Sherpa Village? Shlepper Colony. You've been moving rocks?

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Shlepping rocks???? For some funny reason.. that reminded me... Remember the Pet Rock craze???

[@tom7601]

Toy Man Television Shlep is a Yiddish word. Interestingly, "glitch" is a Yiddish word meaning "slip." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin

[@ToyManTelevision]

Oy! And I love it. Just the right sound for breaking your back hauling stuff for someone.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yiddish sounds like it means. Putz. You just know what that is.

[@coolrides]

Once the tracks are torn up, it truly becomes history. Great to see the last run! :) Jack

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Hey, Jack! This is so true... and in my case, I took for granted that the tracks were still there.... They had been all along... Right? Now just a memory....

[@ToyManTelevision]

sad to see, yet life does move on. In a car.... Very fast...

[@bobbybaldeagle702]

Thanks for another awesome video!!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! We had fun chasing it. Heading to Helper soon. Hear there's a cool thing going on!

[@mhgs13]

Actually the UP 804 at the 3:06 mark is a GP38-2 , former Missouri Pacific 2305.

[@ToyManTelevision]

mhgs13 yes. Oops. I guess I can't tell a GP 38-2 from a Jeep CJ -5

[@mhgs13]

LOL... The only reason that it caught my eye was that there were no dynamic brake blister on the unit. Great video by the way.

[@ToyManTelevision]

When we spotted it I googled and it said it was a GP 30. WELL IT WAS. For a while....

[@mhgs13]

Toy Man Television And your were quite correct about the numbers for the GP30s. Not sure when it was that UP got rid of them, but the roster I looked it up on on Google shows no GP30s on the roster as of 2015. I meant the correction as no disrespect to you. Just a small error in an otherwise excellent video. If I did offend I humbly apologize to you sir.

[@chichi41]

That is so obvious that even a beginning railfan should have spotted it!

[@mikewest3108]

I lived on Cemetery Road for part of my childhood and the small, nearby town of New Burlington was covered by Caesar's Lake after the dam was built. And there was a train that use to run through a village nearby called Spring Valley that has been torn up and made into a bike path. No lie.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Every state has a Pleasant Grove and every village has a Cemetery Road. OR so it seems. I like the bike paths, would rather see railroad, with a steam engine, but....

[@Cpt_Boony_Hat]

Thank you I’m originally from Green River and I wondered what this looked like seeing as it didn’t exist by the time I was born and I no longer live in Wyoming.

[@BarlowJacob]

I really loved this one

[@trainroomgary]

Hi / The U.P. Big Boy 4014 will be coming to Ogden, for the anniversary of the Golden Spike, after the restoration. Hope your channel will be there. Look forward to your chase of the 844, this up coming April. Cool video today. • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

That's the plan!!!! WOW!!!!!!!! Off to Cheyenne soon to see how 4014 is coming too.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I can't wait to actually SEE the Big Boy! When I first met Dale, He had made a Toy Man video following the Big Boy from Pomona CA to Cheyenne.... I still get moved to tears watching it!!

[@maxwedge100]

That phosphate plant line also serviced the Keetly side mines at Mayflower. Nothing left except the cuts and grades, sad we have lost that history.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just nothing left.... EXCEPT THE MAYFLOWER tunnel. Which I was able to get into. NOW if I can find that video......

[@stevemellin5806]

Very cool to thank you

[@wjf213]

What a great video right to the end with the "UP LOOD" and the wife looking at the bottle. It instantly reminded me of Foster Brooks. Man those were the days when comedy was funny with those weekly roasts of people they used to do. You remind me of the great American Foster as well. haha Keep up the great work.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Long story... Foster was a producer on The Steve Allen show with Steve's wife Audrey Meadows. She was offended by Steve getting drunk on the show once, and so as a joke, Steve had Foster (Audrey had never met him) come on pretending to be an author with some book, sit next to Audrey and pretend to be drunk! Meadows almost freaked, and couldn't figure out why Steve was cracking up! CLASSIC. ANYWAY, Foster became the go to drunk on TV!!! He was GOLD.

[@ToyManTelevision]

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[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

wjf213 LOL! Yes.... I am always Checking that bottle! One never knows! 😂

[@SamLovesTrains]

Union Pacific 804 is a GP38-2. There probably once was a GP30 804 but since UP got rid of them they numbered a GP38-2, 804.

[@jonheller2307]

interesting presentation. you always find interesting factoids and deep dives into otherwise obscure items. had to pull out the Google maps to understand the connections, especially to Heber. keep up the screwing around!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. Interesting to see how close the D &RG line in Heber came to the UP line in Park City.

[@sgtwylde1996]

Man, I wasn't aware that could have been part of Heber Valley, would have been awesome to see my grandpa's engine going to and from Coalville

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes!! The phosphate tipple was about 5 miles from Mayflower, where the Heber line had served years ago. Good grade all the way from the Heber Depot to Mayflower. If you google a map you can see how close and simple it would have been Sad...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Mayflower Mine to Richardson Flat.

[@gregsmith1719]

You two sure put on a great show! I'm hooked! I started watching a few and was kind to tired of you two talking so much (I wanted the serious stuff!), but I finally came around and now love seeing you together. Keep it up! I'm watching for a new video everyday! I love white wine, too. Have one on me. Cheers! Greg

[@DillonTrinhProductions]

you guys should visit the redwood valley railway in tilden park california

[@ToyManTelevision]

Adding to our list!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I really enjoy ghost tracking these old railroad lines! But the loss of the Park City branch totally blew me away! It's gone??? When did this happen?? When I think about all the times I went to Evanston Wyoming, between 1987 and 2005, to visit my sister and brother... Well... Sometimes the train was there..going right up the median of the divided highway.... and naturally... most of the time it wasn't. It never dawned on me that the train had been discontinued.... and the tracks removed! I should have noticed equipment removing the tracks... right??? But like so many discontinued structures.. Just one day........ They're gone! As though they never existed! I sure wish this branch had been turned into a scenic line to Park City... Wouldn't that be cool??? Still....... I do suppose that the rails to trails program is okay.... as long as people remember that the trail was a railroad line..... What would be nice, is to see the Trax Train run between Salt Lake City and Park City.... Especially during the winter months, when road travel can be hazardous... Maybe... one of these daze.....

[@jacoblyman9441]

The phosphate cars that are loaded in Echo, use a leg of the Park City Branch for storage. The bridge is still in place, although cars aren't being pushed out on it anymore, there is still track. The trail head starts right after the bridge ends.

[@wp8thsubdivision530]

The loadout at Echo is for Utelite, a mineral that used to be loaded on the branch at Wanship. The phosphate loadout relocated to Wyoming near Rock Springs.

[@bernardc2553]

Ate many meals there @ kozy Cafe 1 yr lost power on Thanksgiving in Coalville so yup,load all the family's & friends off the The Kozy Cafe lol.. Was there when it shut down but didn't know that till I seen you Vid Dale, just had wife come to see old Bridge We also live in Wanship & Heber wow Memory's

[@SolidCold]

Correction: 804 is a GP38 which was a later model. Anyway great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Oops. I don’t know “modern” diesels. I can’t tell an SD43-2 from a GP53.3 T.

[@tjorgensen2007]

Great video!! A major screwing around. I heard about Echo being a beautiful place to travel to...one of our co-worker had moved there...one day I will travel to Echo myself.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Gee, so little of it left. THe motel and cafe is for sale, bar not open, perhaps 5 houses with people in them. The canyon is amazing!! And trains every few minutes!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I love the scenery there... The rock formations are unique.. formed by wind and time...

[@tjorgensen2007]

Time is like book, as the pages turns, history fades with each turn of a page

[@farmerdave7965]

Many years ago my Datsun pickup truck became stuck trying to cross the train tracks at Keetley. Thankfully those tracks were no longer in use.

[@ToyManTelevision]

that could have gone badly!

[@FutureRailProductions]

Have you ever tried to walk the old grade up to Promontory Summit from where it originally went over by Corrine, or from the Ghost Town of Lucin to Promontory? I think you can drive on it, and a lot of the old trestles are still in place. There's even a spot where there's remnants of an old roundhouse. Google Maps Satellite view works amazingly to find old railroad grade, especially if the grade was used for a very long time.

[@thomasw.glasgow7449]

ah could watch this aw day , what a great couple you are , aye ! P S ah like trains too .

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for watching!!!! Great place to explore. Shame they turned it into a trail. But at least it’s still there.

[@derrickd99]

Love the videos. Ever considered a video on the Tintic branch to Eureka?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes!!!! And there’s a great 7 1/2 inch railroad out there with about 5 miles of track.

[@drewpurdy3527]

Man if you ever find footage of the D&RG line to Park City I would love to see it

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hum.... I have seen such footage. I have one still from the rear platform exiting the summit tunnel. But Jack Douglas shot the line on 16mm Kodachrome in about 1960. They were only running between the lime quarry and the cement plant. No idea where the footage ended up.

[@richardburdick9430]

I have ate at that cafe ( 6:54) and stayed the night at the motel on a road trip from Arkansas to Washington back in 2000. Wonder if it is still open.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Last we were there the were closed. But in good shape bet they reopen

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Park City reminds me of Mexican Hat Utah in that they both are quiet and out of the way.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Park city has become quite the hang out for the rich and famous. But it is a fascinating town

[@daveedward3765]

I live in Devil Slide. great place to live

[@ToyManTelevision]

Its great there. Love the Wasatch Back.

[@silverstatehighiron]

The reason those dash 8's are in storage is because UP hasn't been needing them since 2015. Their future is uncertain.

[@ToyManTelevision]

they were sure busy in 2015. Broke all records.

[@bobross4449]

805 is a gp38 and the real 804 is now bnsf gp39m 2817

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Oops. I just don’t know modern (post 1960) locomotives 🚂

[@daveedward3765]

but sadly ideal cement co. torn it down

[@GreatBasinCarShops]

I love your videos, but could you fact check before doing the narration? It's called the Utah State Railroad Museum, not the Utah Railway Museum, and UP 804 is NOT a GP30, there are no GP30s on the Union Pacific system at all any more, that's a GP38-2.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I called it the Utah State Railroad Museum in many videos. Its a museum. A railroad museum. A railway museum. If I call it a railway museum I don't mean to say it's name is the railway museum. Just saying. And 804 was a GP 30. Thought they must have kept one. Oops.

[@jacoblyman9441]

Yes sadly there are no longer any GP30's in the UP. UP changes their numbering system every so often too, so new locomotives take the high number spots, while older ones seem to take the lower numbers.But it is cool the GP38 you saw does match the old numbering for the GP30's. Also, UP donated a GP30 (UP 844, not the steamer!) to the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum, so Dale if you ever get the chance to go there when you are in that area, you can check it out. When the original Heber Creeper went bankrupt a large part of their old stuff went down there. They also have a train in that museum that hauled Nuclear ROCKET engines at the Nevada Test Site. I haven't been there yet, but it is on my wishlist for a future trip. Other than that though, I had a ton of fun watching the video go along the route. It is a trail I have long wanted to visit, but have only been to the start at Echo where the branch splits off from the mainline. I want to get out there. Pity though what you said there are no signs of spikes or ties left anywhere near the trail. I also want to visit the Prospector trail the former DRGW Ogden-SLC mainline ran on sometime, have you ever been up there? Also can't wait for the 844 chase! I am planning on doing the Pocatello to Ogden part, and am debating if I want to get up in Echo Canyon later that week.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I thought 804 must be left behind or something. Looked to me like a GP 30! But if it aint steam I don't know much about it. Where is the Prospector trail? Sounds FUN! We did ride behind GP30 844. Fun trip!! Dan Markoff is building his car there, keeps his flat car there, and sometimes runs his loco there, but does not keep it there. It's in his back yard!! they have some COOL STUFF they keep locked up, would not let us see it. Including the passenger car Dan is copying. Really messed up as I hear, and they don't show it. ARUG. Fun place!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

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[@ToyManTelevision]

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[@haroldreardon8070]

What a lousy narrator, doesn't know his locomotives, and makes a silly joke about other things.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Here's another silly joke! This guy goes into the doctors office with a duck sitting on his head! The doctors says "OK this better be good, what can I do for you?" and the duck says, "Can you get this guy off my ass?".

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Gee, Harold Reardon... Sounds like a bad case of the Green Pricklies! I certainly hope it improves!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I think there's an ointment for that.

[@scottcoleman9570]

Never been to America but it's good to learn about this stuff. Keep up the good job. 🖒