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The Union Pacific deeded the complex to Evanston in 1974. An overhaul facility for railcars reopened the same year. [2] Starting as the Wyoming Railcar Company, the operation was absorbed by the Lithcote Company, which was in turn acquired by the Union Tank Car Company. The Union Tank Car Company moved out of the complex in 1998.
The Union Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1962.
Union Pacific took over the line in 1887. They extended the line slightly to Orin Junction to connect to the Wyoming Central line. In 1890 Union Pacific created the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway comprising the Cheyenne and Northern, Colorado Central Railroad, Denver, Texas and Gulf Railroad, and other companies. [3]
The area where a train derailed at the Wyoming-Lockland border Saturday night has been deemed safe.. A Wyoming city alert, sent via text message at 9:07 a.m. Sunday, said the tracks remain a work ...
The train derailment in Lockland, near Wyoming, is the ninth to occur in Ohio in 2024. Its cause remains under investigation Derailed train between Wyoming, Lockland carried hazardous materials
April 27 – United States – Union Pacific Big Boy 4005 jumps at a switch track at 50 mph (80 km/h) and derails in southern Wyoming. June 24 – French Indochina – Col des Nuages derailment: "About 100 or more" people are killed when a passenger train plunges 15 m (50 feet) through a sabotaged viaduct.
June 28, 2004 – A westbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train collides with the middle of an eastbound BNSF freight that was entering a siding at Macdona, Texas. Several cars on both trains and the four UP locomotives were derailed; one of the derailed tank cars was punctured, releasing liquefied chlorine which vaporized into a cloud ...
The Cheyenne Depot Museum is a railroad museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States.It is located inside the 1880s Union Pacific Railroad depot. A National Historic Landmark, the station was the railroad's largest west of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and a major western example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.