Friday, February 20, 2015

You know you're from Juab County if you know where "Track Street" is in Nephi. Although us old folks thought it was the Center Street, it is actually on First north, and so named because in our early days a train would head up to Sanpete on the south side of the road. Trains have always been important to Juab County, starting on the North near where Doc Steele's home was, as it was called "Little Chicago" and to stop for the buffalo at the Moss ranch at the settlement named Juab. In 1881, all lines through Juab were merged to become the Utah Central Line. This photo ran in the Salt Lake Tribune in 1948, and showed Junior Whitman near the wheel; George Brown next to him, an engineer out of Salina, as was Al Brown who is leaning out the window. This train ran to Frisco, and changed at the still important train switch town of Milford.

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