Depot: (
Satellite, 7,287 photos)
D&RGW Roundhouse: (
Satellite, the road is built over the roundhouse land.)
SP Roundhouse: (
Satellite, what makes that round circle? I don't think it is the location of the former turntable.)
UP Roundhouse: (
Satellite, the light-rail embankment is built over the roundhouse land.)
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Alex Carry posted
Jeffrey Williams: Photos of the Southern Pacific Roundhouse in Ogden, Utah. Taken down in 1954. My great grandfather and grandfather worked there.
[A comment indicates that the turntable had been upgraded to 135'.] |
Using a platform as part of the museum's display of its
roster helped save the platform canopy.
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TheUnionStation
"The Station now houses three museums, Utah State Railroad Museum, John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum, three fine arts galleries and Warren’s Train Shop, Union Grill Restaurant, the U.S. Forest Service Information, and the Union Station Library."
[This web site is broke so I could not get to the Weddings and Birthday Caboose web pages.] |
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UtahStories
But they have deferred a lot of maintenance so now the building is a problem. |
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IntermountianHistories, credit Union Station Foundation
Union Station Lobby showing the south mural by Edward Lanning.
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The 50-year lease of the station from UP expires on Dec 31, 2026. On Dec 6, 2022, the city agreed to buy the 8.06 acres of land for $5,562,044. [
kuer]
The tracks going North and South out of town are also Union Pacific. Note that his map was made a year after the SP roundhouse burned down.
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| 1955 Ogden Quad @ 24,000 |
The blue rectangle highlights the DRG&W roundhouse, green denotes SP and yellow denotes UP. I notice there is a round circle east of the SP roundhouse, but it is in a different location than today's
round circle.
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