Rock Springs station

In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad arrived at Rock Springs as part of the first transcontinental railroad. The company also opened a depot for the Rock Springs Union Pacific Railroad coal depot in 1868. The coal stop fueled the City of Rock Springs and steam locomotives, with coal from nearby coal mines. Union Pacific Coal Company closed its last coal mine in Rock Springs in the 1950s. At its peak, the Union Pacific Coal Company operated four large coal mines in and around Rock Spring.^[6] In the 1950s, the Union Pacific started replacing steam locomotives with diesel locomotives. Diesel locomotives are safer and require less maintenance. The last Rock Springs mine closed in 1963. The Union Pacific Freight Station was located at 603 South Main Street.^[7][8][2][9] The first passenger depot was built in 1870, two years after the tracks were install.^[10]

Amtrak took over passenger service on May 1, 1971, with its City of San Francisco running until June 1972, when it was replaced by the San Francisco Zephyr. The California Zephyr replaced the San Francisco Zephyr on July 16, 1983, but its more-southern route temporarily ended passenger rail service to Rock Springs.^[11]

Amtrak service was started again with the rerouting of the Pioneer via Rock Springs on June 17, 1991, but ended on May 10, 1997, with the ending of the Pioneer.^[12][13]

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  Union Pacific Railroad depot in 1919
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  Rock Springs, with coal mines and Union Pacific Railroad tracks in 1890
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  Rock Springs coal station, in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1908. The Union Pacific Railroad coal chutes were used to load Union Pacific Railroad steam locomotives
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  Route of the first American transcontinental: The Central Pacific (red) in the west and the Union Pacific (blue) met in Utah in 1869. Rock Springs is on the blue route
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  In the 1940s and 1950s, the Union Pacific Railroad ran the largest steam engine locomotive through the depot, the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive. Union Pacific had 25 Big Boys built for pulling heavy loads over the mountains.
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  Playground for miner's children at the Union Pacific Coal Company's Stansbury Mine in Rock Springs

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