Please grab a snack, sit back and relax, and watch this old black and white video, from back in the day, of Ol' Big Boy as it leaves Cheyenne one last time.
25 Big Boys were built to haul freight over the Wasatch mountains between Green River, Wy. and Ogden, Utah. Only eight remain. Two of those can be seen in Cheyenne.
This tour is sold out but the next is Dec. 8. In honor of Veterans Day, The Salute to the Military Tour will be in Nov. 13 featuring Spirit Of The Union Pacific
Union Pacific’s Locomotive No. 1943, The Spirit honors the US armed forces. Every detail in The Spirit incorporates a piece of each U.S. armed forces branch.
Cheyenne was built by an 1863 mandated railway act and has a lot of fans of Union Pacific Railroads. This year, we get some extra days to take in the Steam Shop
Cheyenne Depot Days celebrates the rich and exciting heritage of Wyoming railroading and will feature Cheyenne Depot Museum tours, Steam Shop tours and vendors,
If this were a Wyoming geography class, we would have to note what geologists like to term, "The Gangplank" (El Tablon, or "The Plank"). It literally put Wyoming on the map.