Lookout, Wyoming
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Lookout, Wyoming | |
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Coordinates: 41°39′57″N 105°48′08″W / 41.66583°N 105.80222°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Wyoming |
County | Albany |
Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
ZIP codes | 82058 |
GNIS feature ID | 1591001[1] |
Lookout was a station of the [[Union Pacific Railroad] in Albany County, Wyoming, United States.
A former station on the Union Pacific Railroad, and part of the route of the First Transcontinental Railroad, an 1869 railroad guide describes the station as located at at mile post 603 on the rail line, with "Mr. John Owens, the agent and operator. The country is rolling but less bluffy since leaving Laramie."[2]
The 1916 edition of the The Complete Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway describes Lookout as containing a railroad station with "no accommodation for tourists. Drinking and radiator water can be obtained. Camp site. There are several large stock ranches near here."[3]
References
- ^ "Lookout, Wyoming". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Brown, C. Exera Brown's Gazetteer of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and Branches, and of the Union Pacific Rail Road, p. 21 (1869)
- ^ The Complete Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway, p. 120 (1916)