Union Pacific Freight Station - 603 South Main Street

Cross South Main Street to the grass park. The building on your right is a 1917 Union Pacific freight station. The buildings of the UP No. 1 mine extended southeast of the freight station. No. 1 Mine opened in 1868 and was the first mine operating on a large scale in the Rock Springs coal field. It had a daily output of 2,000 tons of coal and was in operation nearly forty years. It is said to have been the largest mine ever operated through one opening, the area worked being 1,800 acres.

In the first 15 years of the town’s development, E Street continued across the tracks. Additions to the original freight station closed the street, and the UP constructed a steel pedestrian viaduct above the tracks so residents could cross the eight tracks dividing the town.

Walk along the grass toward the train depot. You have a good view of the dates and names inscribed near the tops of the buildings across the street.