Archive for February 2012
Kinney and Lila
I have created two new pages covering recent developments in Utah coal mining, and the railroads that serve them.
The Kinney No. 2 mine is being developed at the location of the former Union Pacific mine that dates back to the 1880s. The location is just north and east of the town of Scofield, in Pleasant Valley. The site is already served by Union Pacific’s Pleasant Valley Subdivision, and the mine owners have said that they plan on shipping coal by rail from their Kinney mine to West Coast and Gulf Coast ports for export to customers worldwide. Mining is expected to start in late 2013.
The Lila Canyon mine is a new coal mine located on the edge of the Book Cliffs, just south of Horse Canyon where Carbon County Railway served the Geneva Mine from 1942 to 1982. Small-scale mining started at Lila Canyon in 2010, with the coal being trucked to existing loadout facilities near Price, Utah. Large-scale mining is expected to start in 2014 after a longwall mining machine is installed in the Lila Canyon mine.
Idaho Central Railway
I just completed a web page about the Idaho Central Railway, built between Nampa and Boise in 1887.
This is the last of the separate pages for railroads that contributed steam locomotives to the overall Union Pacific locomotive fleet. I have really enjoyed researching all of these various lines, looking to bring them and their locomotives into context with what was going on with Union Pacific.
As mentioned, I have tried to create separate pages for each railroad that contributed locomotives to UP’s own fleet of locomotives. Of course, some are not Utah railroads, so for them I created a separate index page.
