Steam & Excursion > Railcars galore around Cheyenne round house

It surprises me with as neat and tidy the current manager is, that there is tons of equipment strewn around the Cheyenne roundhouse.  Old f units, tenders, passenger cars that have been spliced and diced.....do they ever intend on cleaning this up and freeing up some space or is it a grave yard of sorts?

-CSN

Dont toss it all out. The UP 900080 rotary is in the line and is the best plow for heavy wet snow.
Here is a photo of us up at Fox Park, WY with the UP 900080 westbound.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/07/21 18:00 by Bob3985.

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Why are there so many railfans that post here who are continually advocating the scrapping of old equipment??

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Most, if not all, of us don't want to see it scrapped but rather fix it up or give it to a group that might.

Out 

2017; One man's junk is another's treasure.....

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so whose bone yard looks great???   (not against cleaning but........)   Arlen

asheldrake Wrote:
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> so whose bone yard looks great???   (not against
> cleaning but........)   Arlen

I work in the mining industry and I keep waiting for someone to pull up past our boneyard and exclaim "OMG, you've got a Bucyrus-Erie 88B! We need to restore it and run it in your gravel pit!!"
Edit: We don't, it was scrapped years ago...

Cheers, Dave

Another pair....   I will never forget the photos of Sumpter Valley Railroad equipment scattered around as cabins and sheds in the National Forest in Eastern Oregon which survived decades up till just a handful of years before the restoration was begun.  "Wise" heads decided to clean up. piled and burned.

On the other hand. more than once I have stood next to an operating piece of equipment which came from a "dump" or some "foolish" outfit that never got around to cleaning up to others' more stringent standards.  I even got to shake the hand of a "fool" (now deceased) who bought an old steam locomotive and then stored it in his shed for decades.  We rode behind it that day.

Some of us see possibilities; some of us see junk deteriorating as eyesores (and sometimes they are right).  Takes all kinds to make a world, as they say.

The archaelogists, BTW, look for the ancient latrines where the best stuff is always found.

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Hey the Feather River doesnt look that bad. They should trade it to the Portola Folks for their business car so it can be repainted Green and orange. Both are just hanging out gathering rust.

I'm surprised the 3985 isn't outside, rusting away since untimely bs demise.

CS

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I'm surprised they still have an F left.

Victor



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/21 18:53 by wabash2800.

used to be a lot more stuff there

Isn’t there a Rio Grande B unit there too?

the grande b unit was assigned to a rotary and rebuilt

It's really sad that Selma is sitting outside rotting away. It is the oldest car in the fleet ,1912 and has by far the most beautiful interior. It is also maybe the most historical having served the WP, MP and UP.
It would be cool at Portola as Feather River again in either paint scheme but really needs to be out on the road like it was in the 90's
Steve

TomG Wrote:
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> Hey the Feather River doesnt look that bad. They
> should trade it to the Portola Folks for their
> business car so it can be repainted Green and
> orange. Both are just hanging out gathering rust.

Varnish outside roundhouse, 2017

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Another outside and one in the roundhouse:

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wpjones Wrote:
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> It's really sad that Selma is sitting outside
> rotting away.

From the pictures, it hardly looks like it is "rotting away". 

better climate than omaha/CB

Poor old Arden.  That car was once for the highest and mighty on Union Pacific.

JB - Omaha