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In 1988, Union Station was designated as the Utah State Railroad Museum. Today, it holds this museum, as well as the Browning Firearms Museum, the Browning-Kimball Car Museum, and two art galleries. The museum’s collection contains around 50,000 objects, including photographs, prints, costumes, paintings, sculpture, railroad ephemera, and ...
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Utah State Railroad Museum. Union Station is home to the...
- Utah State Railroad Museum
Ogden was the central hub of railroad travel from the times...
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Visit. Hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM....
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Though it is no longer a train depot, the Station continues to attract people from all over the world. Most come to see the John M. Browning Firearms Museum and the Utah State Railroad Museum/Eccles Rail Center with its display of two of the largest locomotives ever manufactured anywhere.
- Museum History
- D&RGW Narrow-Gauge Equipment
- D&RGW Narrow-Gauge 2-8-0 No. 223
- The Fire
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In an early attempt at railroad preservation in Ogden, on July 18, 1959, two retired 0-6-0 steam switching locomotives were dedicated in Ogden's John Affleck Park on Wall Avenue. Union Pacific 4436, a 1918 Baldwin engine, and Southern Pacific 1297, a 1921 Baldwin engine, were donated by the railroads and displayed nose to nose (similar to the 1869 ...
The D&RGW narrow gauge boxcar, gondola and caboose were moved to Ogden after Pioneer Village at Lagoon was closed for the 1988 season. After being open for 12 years, Lagoon closed Pioneer Village at the end of the 1988 season to make way for the Log Flume ride. The narrow gauge railroad equipment had been on display at Lagoon's Pioneer Village sinc...
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow-gauge 2-8-0 locomotive number 223 is the sole surviving engine built by the Grant Locomotive Works. It operated in Utah between 1881 (when it was built) until 1890, when the D&RGW tracks in Utah were changed from narrow, three-foot gauge to standard, 4 feet 8-1/2 inches gauge. Number 223 remained in servi...
The following was originally from Maynard Morris, via several railroad internet forums: The following came from Steve Smith: It is believed that the cars' wheel and truck assemblies went to Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California. The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado got all of the short caboose parts, and...
February 5, 2002 Union Pacific donated former Southern Pacific SD45 no. 7457 to the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden, Utah. The following is from a Union Pacific Railroad news release, dated February 5, 2002:
Ogden Union Station Equipment-- Roster listings of the equipment at Ogden Union Station. Includes links to Golden Spike Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. ###
The Museums at Union Station are the Utah State Railroad Museum featuring the Wattis-Dumke Model Train Exhibit, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum and the Eccles Rail Center and the Utah State Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
About. For 50 years this stately and historic depot served as a major hub for transcontinental rail service. Today, it remains a monument to grand rail stations of the early 20th-century and includes four museums: the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Browning Kimball Car Museum and the Browning Firearms Museum.
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