Depot: (
Satellite, 436 photos)
Roundhouses: (
Satellite, the roundhouses were south and southeast of the preserved smokestack)
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Rick Shilling posted
1869 Union Pacific Railroad Roundhouse, Locomotive and Water Tank at Laramie, Wyoming. Windmill used to pump water into tank for Locomotive use.
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's post
1963 Laramie Quad @ 24,000 |
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Tim Starr posted
The Union Pacific built the Laramie WY shops and roundhouse out of stone as they were heading westward in 1868. The piles of wood were for the early wood burning locomotives. |
Note the smokestack in the background.
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| Street View, Oct 2021 |
The old service facility land is now a long storage yard. Note the two parallel blue lines.
They are the rails for an overhead crane. I could not figure out what they store here.
The depot is now a museum.
I used street view to check out the condition of the caboose. In all of the other street views, it was yellow. Can the sun wash out the color like that? It certainly is not primer because you don't carefully paint around the rust spots, you remove them.
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Union Pacific No. 535, Laramie Wyoming: https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2019/05/union-pacific-no-535-laramie-wyoming.html
ReplyDeleteUnion Pacific 4014 "Big Boy" and 844, Laramie Wyoming, May 17, 2019: https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2019/05/union-pacific-4014-big-boy-and-844.html
Laramie Wyoming Union Pacific Station: https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2012/02/larame-wyoming-union-pacific-station.html
Union Pacific Railroad Rail Yard, Laramie Wyoming: https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2011/11/union-pacific-railroad-rail-yard-1986.html