Railroad Heritage Park with Snow Train Rolling Stock |
82070 Laramie, WY, United States of America (USA) (Wyoming ) |
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S 1st Street
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Floor area | only roughly guessed: 4 000 m² / 43 056 ft² |
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Status from 04/2015
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Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States. Laramie was settled in the mid-19th century along the Union Pacific Railroad line, which crosses the Laramie River at Laramie. SkyWest Airlines (United) provides daily commercial flights between Laramie Regional Airport and Denver, Colorado. Laramie is also served by Greyhound Lines, which maintains a bus depot in the city. |
Description | The Snow Train Rolling Stock, located in Railroad Heritage Park in Laramie, Wyoming, consists of five pieces of Union Pacific Railroad rolling stock. The five vehicles, which are a snow plow, locomotive, tender, bunk car, and caboose, form a snow train, a type of train used to clear snow from rail lines. The snow plow was built as a tender and converted to a wedge-shaped plow in 1953. The locomotive was built in 1903 and served in Wyoming from 1947 to 1957; it served as part of snow trains in 1949 during a blizzard. The bunk car was originally built as an automobile car in 1929 and became a bunk car in 1955; after its retirement, it served as a ticket office for the Wyoming Colorado Railroad. The tender was built between 1907 and 1920, and the caboose was built in 1955.
Wyoming snow trains did not function as pre-assembled units and were generally put together when they were needed to clear snow. While these five pieces of rolling stock probably never operated together as a snow train, they are nonetheless representative of Wyoming snow trains. The pieces were moved to the park in 2011 from various locations around Laramie. The Snow Train Rolling Stock was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 2013: Snow Train Rolling Stock is significant under Criterion C in the area of Engineering, comprising excellent examples of different types of rolling stock that served on the Union Pacific Railroad system during the first half of the twentieth century. The five pieces of rolling stock possess shared historical associations as equipment built for and used by the Union Pacific Railroad or its subsidiaries during the historic period. Locomotives are the most numerous type of railroad rolling stock resource listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Snow Train Rolling Stock includes examples of underrepresented rolling stock car types. This collection of rolling stock exhibits developments in twentieth century railroading and railroad practices , including the development of all-steel car bodies, design innovations, and the repurposlng of rolling stock to new uses, such as wedge snow plows and bunk cars. As an assemblage, the rolling stock illustrates the typical arrangement and car types making up a Wyoming snow train of the 1950s. Snow trains were not preassembled, standing in readiness for heavy snow. Instead, as a weather emergency developed, trains to plow the lines were put together from available rolling stock. The locomotive of the ensemble is also significant under Criterion A In the area of Transportation for its service in Wyoming from 1947 to 1957, including powering snow trains during the blizzard of 1949. No railroad rolling stock in Wyoming is currently listed in the National Register. |
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