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The Ames Monument is located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Laramie, Wyoming, on a wind-blown, treeless summit south of Interstate 80 at the Vedauwoo exit. The monument is a four-sided, random ashlar pyramid, 60 feet (18 m) square at the base and 60 feet (18 m) high, constructed of light-colored native granite.
Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...
Near the complex is a disused Union Pacific train station, built in 1900 and donated to the city of Evanston in the late 1980s. [5] The depot last saw service in 1983, when the San Francisco Zephyr was discontinued [6] and again from 1991 to 1997 with the Pioneer.
Grand Island and Northern Wyoming Railroad: CB&Q: 1889 1897 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway: 1901 1914 Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway: Laramie, North Park and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company: UP: 1880 1900 Union Pacific Railroad: Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad: UP: 1924 1951
Preliminary testing of water and air quality along a stretch of the Yellowstone River where train cars carrying hazardous materials fell into the waterway following a bridge collapse did not ...
The Swan Ranch Railroad (SRRR) is an industrial railroad that operates within the Swan Ranch Industrial Park, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [1] The railroad is owned and operated by Watco, which announced the formation of the SRRR on 30 November 2011. [1] SRRR began operations in December 2011, operating 17,192 feet (3.2561 mi) of trackage. [1]
The first Dale Creek Bridge was a wooden structure 720 feet in length. The eastern approach to the bridge site, near the highest elevation on the UP, 8,247 feet (2,514 m) above sea level, required cutting through granite for nearly a mile. Solid rock also confronted workers on the west side of the bridge where they made a cut one mile (1.6 km ...
The park's largest recorded earthquake, a magnitude 6, occurred on June 30, 1975, along the north-central boundary of Yellowstone Caldera, a few miles southeast of Norris Geyser Basin. No injuries ...