A website dedicated to interesting train stations I run across, or trains perhaps, or perhaps just interesting things connected with railroads.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
Lost Rail: Related Relics
Lost Rail: Related Relics: 1,490 miles of mainline - the distance from Chicago's Union Station to Vendome, MT. The picture above, taken a decade ago, shows U...
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Friday, October 27, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Missing comments
Somehow or another, I've managed to miss some comments when they were posted here.
I just approved a series of them. My apologies for not doing so earlier.
I just approved a series of them. My apologies for not doing so earlier.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Monday, October 2, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Union Pacific Railroad Depot, Greeley Colorado.
This is the former Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Greeley, Colorado. The depot was built in 1930. While the Union Pacific still runs behind the depot, it's now the Greeley Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Union Pacific Building, Denver Colorado.
This is a Union Pacific building in downtown Denver. I don't know anything about this building. It's not far from Union Station so presumably it wasn't a depot.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Old and new: The path of the Union Pacific in Albany and Carbon Counties, Wyoming.
Hard to pick out in these photos, but the old, 19th Century, rail bed and the new 20th Century rail bed of the Union Pacific are both visible in this photograph, albeit barely.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Lex Anteinternet: Chicago and Northwestern Warehouse Fire, Casper Wyoming
Lex Anteinternet: Chicago and Northwestern Warehouse Fire, Casper Wyoming
A disaster struck Casper Wyoming on this day in 1917. A warehouse belonging to the Chicago and Northwestern, and used also by C. H. Townsend, caught fire. It was the largest fire in the town since a 1905 livery stable fire.
A disaster struck Casper Wyoming on this day in 1917. A warehouse belonging to the Chicago and Northwestern, and used also by C. H. Townsend, caught fire. It was the largest fire in the town since a 1905 livery stable fire.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5...
Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5, 2016
Rally for Public Lands:
Join Us!
—WHEN—
Saturday, November 5th
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
—WHERE—
Izaak Walton League,
4205 Fort Caspar Road
—WHAT—
Live music, keynote speakers, food & drinks!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Rail Transportation and the Punitive Expedition (a...
Lex Anteinternet: Rail Transportation and the Punitive Expedition (a...: We've been recently posting a selection of items about the transportation of the Wyoming National Guard to Camp Cody, New Mexico, in 19...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard, what was it doing and ...
Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard, what was it doing and ...: I posted this item two years ago on the Mid Week at Work Thread. It occurs to me that it may very well be appropriate for the Wyoming Nati...
Monday, September 5, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock...
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock...: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock Yards, Omaha Nebraska in 1916 We've run this one before, in 2013, but we&...
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Some Gave All: Ft. Fred Steele, Carbon County Wyoming
Some Gave All: Ft. Fred Steele, Carbon County Wyoming:
In the past, I haven't tended to post fort entries here, but for net related technical reasons, I'm going to, even though these arguably belong on one of my other blogs. I'll probably cross link this thread
in.
These are photographs of Ft. Fred Steele, a location that I've sometimes thought is the bleakest historical site in Wyoming.
Ft. Steele is what I'd regard as fitting into the Fourth Generation of Wyoming frontier forts, although I've never seen it described that way, or anyone other than me use that term. By my way of defining them, the First Generation are those very early, pre Civil War, frontier post that very much predated the railroads, such as Ft. Laramie. The Second Generation would be those established during the Civil War in an effort to protect the trail and telegraph system during that period during which the Regular Army was largely withdrawn from the Frontier and state units took over. The Third Generation would be those posts like Ft. Phil Kearney that were built immediately after the Civil War for the same purpose. Contemporaneously with those were posts like Ft. Steele that were built to protect the Union Pacific Railroad. As they were in rail contact with the rest of the United States they can't really be compared to posts like Ft. Phil Kearney, Ft. C. F. Smith or Ft. Caspar, as they were built for a different purpose and much less remote by their nature.
About 88 people or so were buried at this post, however only 60 some graves were later relocated when the Army undertook to remove and consolidate frontier graves. Logic would dictate, therefore, that some graves likely remain.
In the past, I haven't tended to post fort entries here, but for net related technical reasons, I'm going to, even though these arguably belong on one of my other blogs. I'll probably cross link this thread
in.
These are photographs of Ft. Fred Steele, a location that I've sometimes thought is the bleakest historical site in Wyoming.
One of the few remaining structures at Ft. Steele, the powder magazine. It no doubt is still there as it is a stone structure.
The reason that the post was built, the Union Pacific, is still there.
What the post was like, when it was active.
A number of well known Wyoming figures spent time at Ft. Saunders.
Ft. Sanders, after it was abandoned, remained a significant railhead and therefore the area became the center of a huge sheep industry. Quite a few markers at the post commemorate the ranching history of the area, rather than the military history.
One of the current denizens of the post.
Suttlers store, from a distance.
Union Pacific Bridge Tenders House at the post.
Current Union Pacific bridge.
Some structure from the post, but I don't know what it is.
The main part of the post's grounds.
Soldiers from this post are most famously associated with an action against the Utes in Utah, rather than an action in Wyoming. This shows the high mobility of the Frontier Army as Utah is quite a distance away, although not so much by rail.
This
1914 vintage highway marker was on the old Lincoln Highway, which
apparently ran north of the tracks rather than considerably south of
them, like the current Interstate Highway does today.
1914 vintage highway marker was on the old Lincoln Highway, which
apparently ran north of the tracks rather than considerably south of
them, like the current Interstate Highway does today.
About 88 people or so were buried at this post, however only 60 some graves were later relocated when the Army undertook to remove and consolidate frontier graves. Logic would dictate, therefore, that some graves likely remain.
Unusual civilian headstone noting that this individual had served with a provisional Confederate unit at some point that had been raised in California. I'm not aware of any such unit, although it must have existed. The marker must be quite recent.
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