A website dedicated to interesting train stations I run across, or trains perhaps, or perhaps just interesting things connected with railroads.
Showing posts with label Union Pacific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Pacific. Show all posts
Monday, October 16, 2023
Towns and Nature: Chugwater, WY: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Three Wood Grai...
Towns and Nature: Chugwater, WY: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Three Wood Grai...: ( Satellite ) Michael Pannel commented on his share of his post Here is the original depot and order board before demolition by train in 195...
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Towns and Nature: Laramie, WY: UP Depot, Roundhouse and Water Tower
Towns and Nature: Laramie, WY: UP Depot, Roundhouse and Water Tower: Depot: ( Satellite , 436 photos) Roundhouses: ( Satellite , the roundhouses were south and southeast of the preserved smokestack) Rick Shill...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Monday, April 11, 2022
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Thieves are robbing Union Pacific trains in Los Angeles to such an extent that . . .
the railroad is considering ceasing to serve the city.
News footage shows the rail line littered with the packages of thousands of stolen items.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
South Torrington Railroad Station, Torrington Wyoming (Homesteader's Museum).
Above is a fisheye view of the South Torrington Railroad Station. I used this view as its a long station, and to get the entire station in otherwise I would have had to walk across the highway, which was busy.
This station is unusual in that it was designed by noted National Park lodge architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival Style. Originally built in 1926, it was extended in order to accommodate both passenger and freight service, with its original purpose being reflected in the fact that it remains right across the street from a sugar refinery.
As with so many other depots, this one is no longer used by the Union Pacific, but it's well-preserved and now used as the Goshen County Homesteader's Museum.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
Former Chicago & Northwester Depot, Lander Wyoming.
Up until now, I've somehow managed to miss putting up a photograph of this former Chicago & Northwestern Depot in Lander, Wyoming, which now serves as the Lander Chamber of Commerce building. That may be because, as these photos suggest, downtown Lander, in spite of Lander being a small town, is pretty crowded in some ways and I missed the depot early on, and had a hard time catching it in a photographic state later.
Indeed, I never really did catch it in an ideal state to be photographed.
Lander was the western most stop on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. The line sometimes called itself the "Cowboy Line" and this lent itself to the slogan "where the rails end, the trails begin". In 1973 the railroad abandoned the stretch of the line between Riverton and Lander, and since then of course it's ceased operation entirely. The railroad, which like many railroads, was the product of mergers and acquisitions and was doing that right up to the late 1960s when its fortunes began to change.
In Wyoming its line ran astride the Burlington Northern's in many locations but it alone ran on to Lander. Starting in the early 70s, it began to contract in Wyoming and then pulled out altogether. The Union Pacific purchased its assets at some point, although its now the case that all of its old rail has been pulled. Indeed, unless you know that the CNW had once run to Lander, you wouldn't know that Lander had once had rail service at all, let alone that it had it as far back as 1906.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Lex Anteinternet: November 28, 1919. The Union Pacific Gives Up, Me...
Lex Anteinternet: November 28, 1919. The Union Pacific Gives Up, Me...:
November 28, 1919. The Union Pacific Gives Up, Mexico erupts, Ships launched and Heroines
The Union Pacific declared that it was giving up the search for Bill Carlisle on this post Thanksgiving Day (prior to it being Black Friday) and it was blaming Wyomingites for that. It held that they were too sympathetic to the train robber and lambasted the state's residents for that in no uncertain terms.
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