"The trailer was eventually accessed from the side using power saws and hand tools and firefighters were able to apply enough water to cool the reacting batteries."
Train buffs may want to mark their calendars for railroad-related events that are slated for Cheyenne in mid-May as part of Cheyenne Railroad Heritage Days.
Wyoming Historian Dan Lyon will be presenting “Before Heart Mountain; Union Pacific Railroad’s Controversial Hiring of Japanese Immigrant Labor” on October 14, at 7 pm in the Wyoming State Museum classroom, located at 2301 Central Avenue in Cheyenne.
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Laramie residents flocked to the historic Laramie Train Depot to watch as the Union Pacific Railroad steam locomotive engine chugged up from Cheyenne Tuesday morning.
Long before it became known as "America's Smallest Town", Buford, Wyoming, had another claim to fame. At an elevation of 8,000 feet, it was the highest settlement along the Transcontinental Railroad.
Buford was established in the late 1860s, as the railroad moved west from Cheyenne to Laramie...