CP-11 Ombey Construction Camp

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    • Established: Ombey railroad siding was established about 1878 or 79
    • Miles from San Francisco: 722.6
    • Used by Railroad: 1878- 1910
    • Railroad Function: Ombey was a fuel station, where crews loaded wood to fire their biolers; by 1881 railroad records show a section house, tool house, Chinese bunk and cookhouses at Ombey, suggesting that section facilities might have been moved from Gravel Pit to Ombey; a “wye” was constructed in 1900 to turn the newer heavier locomotives and “helper” engines needed to assist the locomotives over Red Dome Hill- reports show it took four helper locomotives to pull freight trains over Red Dome Hill; provided freighting services to regional sheep ranchers; many Chinese workers lived in cugouts during the rail’s construction; from Ombey, the rail went north, then veered southward in a gooseneck bend, through a large cut in the Hogup Mountains; progress through the cut was slow
    • Location: Located one mile east of Gravel Pit
    • No Population estimates for this isolated Northern Utah rail siding