Laramie, North Park and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company
The Laramie, North Park and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company was a short lived railroad line in the U.S. state of Wyoming. In 1880, a group of Albany County businessmen proposed a rail line west from Laramie across the Medicine Bow Range. The railroad only made it to the Soda Lakes, 13.36 miles (21.50 km) southwest of Laramie, serving mining camps in the area for several years. The Union Pacific Railway soon gained control of the line. Most of the line was subsequently abandoned, but in 1900 successor Union Pacific Railroad bought the easternmost 1.63 miles (2.62 km).
See also[]
- List of defunct Wyoming railroads
References[]
- Thybony, Scott; Robert G. Rosenberg; Elizabeth Mullett Rosenberg (2001). The Medicine Bows. Caxton Press. ISBN 978-0-87004-415-1.
- Interstate Commerce Commission, 44 Val. Rep. 1 (1933), Valuation Docket No. 1060: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Categories:
- Defunct Wyoming railroads
- Predecessors of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Railway companies established in 1880
- Railway companies disestablished in 1900
- 1880 establishments in Wyoming Territory
- American companies disestablished in 1900