Originally built in Honeyville it served the community for several years as the Union Pacific train depot. At some point it was moved to Corinne to act as a station there, but that was short lived as it was called into duty as the Golden Spike train museum. As the centennial of the driving of the golden spike drew near the Golden Spike National Historic Site was dedicated 1957. Thinking nobody would ever drive clear out there the Son's of the Utah Pioneers opened a museum in Corinne using the old train station in 1959. Once the Park Service realized people were driving clear out there and local citizens staged reenactments each 10th day of May, they finally built a visitor's center in 1978. The old train station then moved up to Heber City, Utah, in 1980, where is became the train station for the Heber Creeper until the early 1990s. The Heber Valley Railroad built their own station and the Honeyville station now sits abandoned in a parking lot a few blocks north of the current Heber Valley Railroad station - 2 May 1980 Don Grayston *1.

Heber City Utah - What do you do if the 70 ton building you recently purchased is on someone else's property and they need it off their land?
 
Well, you move it, of course!
 
And that's exactly what the new owners of the historic Heber Train Depot did.
 
Aras Ziemelis and John Shibonis, recognizing it's historical value and wanting to preserve the building for future generations, called David Valgardson, a professional house mover, to have the historic structure moved across a field.
 

A postcard of the Corinne depot museum - Date? Artist? *1.

The move makes way for a bank that owns the property around the historical building.
 
This isn't the first time David Valgardson has moved this particular building, which was originally built in the early 1900s and served as a train depot for the Golden Spike Railroad in Corinne, Utah.
 
The Valgardson's moved the train depot from its home in Corinne to Heber when it was purchased by the Heber Creeper Railroad in 1979.
 
It served as the Heber Creeper's train depot until the railroad went out of business in 1990.
 
By 1992 the State of Utah agreed to provide funding and in 1993 the state took over the train operations using a new facility as a train depot.
 
Ziemelis and Shibonis, both from Lithuania, acquired the Corinne Train Depot a couple of months ago along with several other historic buildings.
 
Not only are they interested in preserving the historical train depot, they are interested in preserving traditional values among young people.
 
They plan to create a fresh new business within the aged walls of the old building.
 
Ziemelis and Shibonis envision a modern youth club with country and blues music, dancing, and good old-fashioned fun for teens in the community.
 
Ziemelis and Shibonis have already contributed to Heber Valley's economy with their new business, Baltic Stone.
 
They refurbished another historic train depot that was built in Heber in 1899 and converted it into a stone countertop fabrication shop.
 
While not exactly sure how their visions for the historic train depot will ultimately turn out, one thing that does seem certain, is that these smiling, unpretentious, newcomers have the ability and the desire to amalgamate the old with the new, to the delight and the benefit of an entire community.
 
Wendy O'Leary Dunn.