Laramie Historic Train Depot

We used to have a passenger train that stopped in Laramie. When I moved here in 7th grade, the next summer I rode the train back to Iowa to visit friends. It was a great thing to have. They eventually determined that the passenger rail was losing money and they stopped the passenger service. It is such a sad thing. There is talk about trying to get rail service to this part of the country that is wide open but still has a population that would benefit from rail service. 
Like our Civic Center, the depot was repurposed and turned into a museum and can be rented out for functions. There is a nice park next to it as well with several train cars on display. The striped one is what was used to plow through snow drifts on the tracks. There is still plenty of train traffic that passes Laramie by just no passenger trains.

"The current Union Pacific Depot officially opened at 7:00pm, October 6th, 1924 and its new location at 1st and Kearney allowed re-alignment of the Union Pacific mainline and enlargement of the Laramie Yards.  After a patient 7-year wait, Laramie residents finally had a modern station with everything a traveler of the 1920s could wish for.
In 1985, the Union Pacific intended to tear down the station, and it was only through efforts of local citizens that the Depot was saved.  Train service to Laramie ceased in 1997 and today the Depot is run as a community center available for public use and preserved to celebrate Laramie's railroad heritage."