The Heber Valley Railroad will run a special plow extra this Friday (12/7/01) at around 10:00 a.m. MST. The extra plow special will be powered by former UP 2-8-0 No 618. Also in the consist will be former UP caboose 3700.

The plow will be pushed by the steam engine and will run the entire length of the HVRR system. The train will be on the line for about 4 hours.

Tickets are not for sale, however, we do encourage railfans to chase the train.

The same plow extra was run last Friday and was a real hit. The snow in Provo Canyon is 3-4 feet deep.

For more information call us at

(435)-654-5601 EXT 105

John E. Rimmasch
HVRR

jrimmasch@yahoo.com

> The Heber Valley Railroad will run a special
> plow extra this Friday (12/7/01) at around
> 10:00 a.m. MST. The extra plow special will
> be powered by former UP 2-8-0 No 618. Also
> in the consist will be former UP caboose
> 3700.

> The plow will be pushed by the steam engine
> and will run the entire length of the HVRR
> system. The train will be on the line for
> about 4 hours.

> Tickets are not for sale, however, we do
> encourage railfans to chase the train.

> The same plow extra was run last Friday and
> was a real hit. The snow in Provo Canyon is
> 3-4 feet deep.

> For more information call us at

> (435)-654-5601 EXT 105

> John E. Rimmasch
> HVRR

John; You really got my attention when you mentioned UP Caboose 3700. According to my records I left Mt Vernon Car Shops at 3:30
PM, May 11, 1942 with 10 brand new cabooses
to be delivered to the UP at North Platte, NB.
They were Nos. 3700 thru 3709. I was living in the 3709 which was at the rear of the string.
At 1:15 AM the next morning a L&N freight picked
up the string and we headed west. I delivered them to Mr. J.A.Nicholson, Cheif Inspector of Equipment for the UP at North Platte at 10 AM
May 14th.
I made 7 more trips out there to deliver the 100 car order. Due to heavy war time traffic and weather conditions some of the trips were pretty tedious what with being stuck in hot train yards
until they could find a train that wasn't already over tonnage. With war material moving company owned cabooses were not high prioroty traffic.
The car manufacturing company wanted to divide
the shipments among as many railroads as possible
both from a patronage and an advertising standpoint. I conducted a lot of "tours" of the new cars for officials from the 14 different RR's I traveled over.
One final note; would you believe I got PAID for doing that??
Jim


rrfanjim@mvn.net

John, Thanks for posting the info. I hope someone will share a photo or three on line of the plow runs. Good luck with the olympic shuttles in Feb.
Greg Scholl

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