Attention Train Buffs: Cheyenne Depot Days Is This Weekend

Cheyenne Depot Days 2025 is coming up this weekend at the Cheyenne Deport Museum.

What Will Be Happening?

According to a post on the Cheyenne Depot Museum Facebook page:

Depot Days 2025 will take place Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 from 9 am to 3 pm. Weekend passes are $20 for adults, $10 for ages 13-18, and children 12 and under are FREE! Admission will grant you access to the Depot Museum, access to vendors, as well as a seat on the trolley to tour the Union Pacific Steam Shop and Roundhouse.

MUSEUM MEMBERS, please join us for a reception on Friday, May 16 at 6 pm.

If you are not a museum member but would like to join, please click the link below for more information.

Plans & Pricing | Cheyenne Depot Museum | Cheyenne

We spoke this week with Christy McCarthy, Executive Director of the Cheyenne Depot Museum. She told us the museum is indeed a railroad history museum. "We have many exhibits that focus around Promontory point and many things to do with the hell on wheels, all of the railroad related things that Cheyenne was involved in."

Indeed, Cheyenne was founded in 1867 as a site for the Union Pacific Railroad

According to the website "Just Go Places," Hell On Wheels" was an early name for Cheyenne, pertaining to the city's early reputation as a rough place populated by thousands of railroad workers who came to town to work on the Union Pacific Railroad. According to the website: "The railroad men brought along their usual followers – saloons, brothels, gambling dens, dancing girls and all the vice any Wild West town could need. The Cheyenne local paper had a daily column entitled “Last Night’s Shootings” which only goes to show how rough and tumble the town was."

In conjunction with Depot Days, Barrett Creek Coffee will be opening in the depot plaza this weekend as well.