Union Pacific caboose No. 24534 sits on a short stretch of track at Legacy of the Plains Museum near Gering, with Dome Rock in the background. The caboose spent years outside Gering’s Oregon Trail Park before moving to the museum in early September as the first piece of a planned railroad exhibit.
Longhorn cattle graze near Union Pacific caboose No. 24534 at Legacy of the Plains Museum. Museum Executive Director Dave Wolf said the caboose and the museum's working farm together tell the story of irrigation and the railroad, the two developments he credits with making it possible to settle and farm the North Platte Valley.
Longhorn cattle graze near Union Pacific caboose No. 24534 at Legacy of the Plains Museum. Museum Executive Director Dave Wolf said the caboose and the museum's working farm together tell the story of irrigation and the railroad, the two developments he credits with making it possible to settle and farm the North Platte Valley.
Union Pacific caboose No. 24534 sits on a short stretch of track at Legacy of the Plains Museum near Gering, with Dome Rock in the background. The caboose spent years outside Gering’s Oregon Trail Park before moving to the museum in early September as the first piece of a planned railroad exhibit.
