Union Pacific Railway Denver Shops
Apparently the property for the “7th Street Yards” was
acquired in 1900 by the Colorado & Southern.
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Union Pacific Railroad shops in Denver sometime between 1890 and
1900. William H. Jackson photo at DPL WHC,
Images CHS.J80, CHS.J79, and
WHJ-742. |
Poor-297(ME) says --
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“Since
its organization the [Colorado & Southern] had been a tenant in the old
Union Pacific shops in the northern part of (Denver), which had been long
been utilized by the Union Pacific Denver & Gulf, the Union Pacific having
transferred their principle shop facilities to Cheyenne.” |
A number of cars owned by the South Park are attributed to the Union Pacific as
builder. It is our opinion that these cars were actually assembled by the South
Park’s Denver shops, probably using parts manufactured by one or more of the
eastern car builders. These cars were attributed to the Union Pacific
because after January 1881, the South Park Railroad was merely a division of the
Union Pacific. Therefore records could rightly say “Union Pacific.”
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