Thursday, January 4, 2018

Green River, WY: UP 1910 Depot, Coal & Sand Towers and Roundhouse

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?

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.
Digitally Zoomed, you can see some of the roundhouse on the right and the sand tower in front.

Street View, Jun 2019

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]

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
 
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.
Satellite

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.
EarthExplorer: Sep 16, 1954 @ 37,400; AR1VEG000010090


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