Nostalgia & History > UP Hanna, WY depot

 ... wonder how many trains passed this example of UP history during it's lifespan .... : >)

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What are those yellow things next to the TO signal?

Nice looking building.  
Brian Stevens

Thanks for sharing the image.  A pretty neat looking
depot.  Any info on the date of the image?

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

Odyssey Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing the image.  A pretty neat
> looking
> depot.  Any info on the date of the image?
>
> Odyssey
> Evergreen, CO

May 12, 1968

One of my first operator jobs, third trick at Hanna. The yellow poles are for the high-speed hand up of messages and or train orders.  The train order signal is displaying orders for an eastbound.
The poles were inserted into the concrete blocks  There was a spot light on top of the pole that connected to a electrical box for night illumination. 
From the picture, it looks to be a summer afternoon with the front door ajar and windows open. 

Jim Leonard
Cheyenne, WY 

Looking again, it looks like morning account the east end of the depot is in sunshine
Jim Leonard
Cheyenne, WY

What year was that picture taken.  If I remember correctly they tore the depot down and built the Hanna crew dorm on that site.  The dorm might have been a little east of the depot.  The dorm was built around 1978.

Conductor_Pappy Wrote:
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> What year was that picture taken. 

May 12, 1968 
 

Jim, I remember having train orders being hooped up to us at Hanna.  Tower A at Cheyenne was easy.  We were doing about 20 mph.  Laramie wasn’t too bad we were doing 40 mph,but Hanna was scary.  We were doing 60 mph. If you missed the center of the hoop,and hit one of the arms of the hoop it didn’t feel good!