Cheyenne Roundhouse question

Steamguy73 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:15 pm **Posts:** 635

Sorry if this is a stupid topic of discussion, but I can't find on the Internet when most of the Cheyenne Steam shops and roundhouse was torn down for the Union Pacific. I can't find on the Internet when exactly most of it was torn down. Can someone help me find when exactly this happened? Again, sorry if this a stupid question, I can't seem to find it on the Internet anywhere.

Lincoln Penn · **Joined:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:40 pm **Posts:** 841

Steamguy73 wrote:

Sorry if this is a stupid topic of discussion, but I can't find on the Internet when most of the Cheyenne Steam shops and roundhouse was torn down for the Union Pacific. I can't find on the Internet when exactly most of it was torn down. Can someone help me find when exactly this happened? Again, sorry if this a stupid question, I can't seem to find it on the Internet anywhere.

Check out the book "The History of the Union Pacific Railroad in Cheyenne" by Robert Darwin.

It's all in there.

car57 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:24 pm

The book is rare as hens teeth however Jim Ehrenberger and Jack Wolff have just recently published a book on the Cheyenne steam facilities...cant find a reference to it at the moment, The roundhouse was demolished in stages thru 1966, 78 and 82, a shocking case of poor foresight, the steam shop half demolished in 1979.

Mike Pannell