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| Location | S. 1st St. and E. Sheridan St., Laramie, Wyoming |
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| Coordinates | 41°18′27″N 105°35′47″W / 41.30750°N 105.59639°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1922 |
| NRHP reference No. | 13000265[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 8, 2013 |
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.[2]
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.[2]
The Snow Train Rolling Stock was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 2013.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Snow Train Rolling Stock". National Register of Historic Places Program. National Park Service. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
- 1 2 Simmons, Thomas H.; R. Laurie Simmons (March 8, 2013). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Snow Train Rolling Stock" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
External links
- Railroad Heritage Park
- Snow Train Rolling Stock at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
