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Come join us for our annual open house! Free event with O, HO, and N scale model trains, hands on interactive kid's corner, and the crowd favorite Lego village! Light snacks and refreshments will be available. Saturday November 12th 9am - 5pm, Sunday November 13th 9am - 4pm.
Another open house comes to an end at the Laramie Depot. Thank you to all of the visitors who showed up to the event and the volunteers who made it possible. Here are some photos from the weekend.
From the 1960s onward the United States railroad system went through a series of mergers bringing together smaller lines culminating in the 1990s mergers that brought about the current railroad map. The railroad names that were lost in these mergers have come to be known as fallen flags . Today's photos celebrate the paint schemes of these lost railroads.
Union Pacific 3985 on the Laramie wyes for a photo op with the Wyoming Colorado Railroad F-units.
Photos of the Wyoming and Colorado railroad between Laramie and Centennial by Larry Ostresh.
The Laramie Railroad Depot was built in 1924 to replace the town's original Union Pacific Depot/Hotel that was destroyed by fire in 1917. It served as Laramie's Union Pacific passenger depot until 1971 and as an Amtrak depot until 1983. In 1985, the Union Pacific Railroad gave the Depot to the Laramie Plains Museum, which then transferred ownership to the Laramie Railroad Depot Association in 2009.
The Depot is the only remaining building left from the once large Union Pacific presence in Laramie and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The railroad is the reason for the City’s original existence, and the Depot is an important part of Laramie’s historic legacy.
The building houses a museum of railroad memorabilia and is used for various community functions such as music concerts, art exhibits and public meetings. The building is also used to raise revenue to maintain itself through rentals for weddings, banquets and other events.