Depot: (Satellite, I'm surprised that I could not find a label for it.)
Roundhouse: (Satellite)Yet another design for a coaling tower. It looks like this one can service three tracks at a time. Was this built with wood and steel?
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| Scott Gwynn posted Big Boy #4012 in what I believe to be Green River, WY. This engine is preserved in Steamtown. Photo by my father. |
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| Digitally Zoomed, you can see some of the roundhouse on the right and the sand tower in front. |
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| Street View, Jun 2019 |
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| Street View, Jun 2019 Note the "crows nest" above the colonnade. That allowed UP employees to see the entire yard. When this depot was built, UP had moved its offices from Ogden to here because it was more centrally located. [SweetWaterMuseum] |
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted An eastbound and westbound Union Pacific Intermodal meets in front of the old Union Pacific depot at Green River, Wyoming on June 18th, 2023, on the Rawlings Subdivision. Here’s a link to information on the heritage of the depot. https://www.sweetwatermuseum.org/.../100-the-green-river.. Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @150mm, f/5.6, 1/1000, ISO 250. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/union-pacific-meet-at-green-river-wyoming-jim-pearson.html |
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| Bill Kalkman posted Photographer unknown, Rodney Peterson collection. "GP30 overload". Union Pacific GP30s 732, 859, 702B, 718B & 731 are leading a W/B freight as they roll past the classic Green River, WY station on 12-15-71. |
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| Ken Albrecht commented on Bill's post Good grief, Charlie Brown, why do some photographers get Ole Sol while others don't, lol. Scene below taken same locale by me circa 1972. |
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| SweetWaterMuseum In 1869, UP moved their operations to Bryan, WY, because they were used to getting free land from the government. But when the river by that town dried up in 1872, they moved back to Green River. After all, steam locomotives needed a reliable supply of water. When they built the new depot in 1910, they also installed an electric turntable and a $90,000 coal chute. |
I'm saving the footprint of the roundhouse because it disagrees with the topo map further below.
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| 1961 Green River Quad @ 24,000 |
I've never seen a topo map that wrong before, so I found an aerial photo. So what we see today was some outside parking stalls. I've never seen a railroad do such a good job of removing the roundhouse footprint and turntable pit but then leave the remnants of some outside stalls. Note the coaling tower near the lower-right corner and the new diesel fuel tank that is southwest of the roundhouse.
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| EarthExplorer: Sep 16, 1954 @ 37,400; AR1VEG000010090 |
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| Tim Starr posted A very cool photo at Green River WY roundhouse (Union Pacific) showing Castle Rock in the background. It's dated 1968, which makes sense since "Northern" style No. 8444 was (and is) still operating (now numbered 844). |
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