Friday, October 6, 2023

Laramie, WY: UP Depot, Roundhouse and Water Tower

Depot: (Satellite, 436 photos)
Roundhouses: (Satellite, the roundhouses were south and southeast of the preserved smokestack)

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.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's post
They preserved the smokestack, https://maps.app.goo.gl/g2dCM8FtJtGBmGdK6. 1947 aerial photo

Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's post
1963 Laramie Quad @ 24,000

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.
Street View, Oct 2021

The pedestrian truss bridge in the background is interesting.
Street View, Oct 2021

The old service facility land is now a long storage yard. Note the two parallel blue lines.
Satellite

They are the rails for an overhead crane. I could not figure out what they store here.
Satellite

The depot is now a museum.

Kevin Hulme, Jun 2014
 
. “Luckythebrony” Christiansen, Aug 2020
 
Joshua, Jul 2019

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.
Street View, Oct 2021



KU Knauf, Apr 2019



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1 comment:

  1. Union Pacific No. 535, Laramie Wyoming: https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2019/05/union-pacific-no-535-laramie-wyoming.html
    Union 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

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