Borie station

Borie was the primary Amtrak train station serving Cheyenne, Wyoming, following the 1979 closure of Cheyenne Depot. The station was located 10 miles (16 km) west of Cheyenne in the small locality of Borie, Wyoming, with a shuttle bus connecting riders to the city.

Borie, WY
The station building in 1983
General information
LocationOtto Road Borie, Wyoming 82007
Coordinates41°05′26.27″N 104°59′20.36″W
Line(s)Union Pacific Railroad
History
Opened1979, 1991
Closed1983, 1997
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Laramie
toward Seattle
 Pioneer
1991–1997
 Greeley
toward Chicago
Laramie
toward Oakland-16th Street
 San Francisco Zephyr
1979–1983

Borie station was served by the Chicago–Oakland San Francisco Zephyr from 1979 to 1983, and again by the Chicago–Seattle Pioneer from 1991 until the train's discontinuation in 1997, when the facility was permanently closed.

Description

The station at Borie was built to serve as the Cheyenne-area stop for the San Francisco Zephyr in lieu of the Cheyenne Depot's closure after 1979.[1] The design of the station house was very similar to other stations that followed the minimal "Amshack" aesthetics.[1] The station was built outside of a siding in the small locality of Borie, Wyoming, west of Cheyenne.[1] This eliminated a time-consuming backup move in and out of the Cheyenne station, but forced riders to utilize a shuttle bus to reach the city 10 miles (16 km) away from the station.[2][3]

Service at the station began in 1979 but was short lived, with the rerouting and renaming of the San Francisco Zephyr in 1983.[4] Service restarted when the Pioneer was rerouted from Denver, Colorado to Ogden, Utah in 1991,[2] though the station building had been rebuilt to an even smaller design.[1] The station continued to be used until the Pioneer ceased running in 1997, officially ending service at the station. By 2011 the station building had been demolished and the platforms had been removed, though the station site and the siding have remained.[5] Although Front Range Passenger Rail is planning to reinstate service to Cheyenne, it is expected to use the former Cheyenne Depot without a stop at Borie.[6]

References
  1. "Cheyenne Photos". Wyoming Tales and Trails. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  2. "Other Board Actions Tied to Route Restructuring". Amtrak NEWS. 6 (10): 5. September 1979.
  3. Page, Ashley; the Cheyenne Depot Museum (2020). The Cheyenne Depot. Arcadia Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-4671-0531-6.
  4. Jantzen, Kim (May 10, 1991). "Amtrak will travel through Wyoming again". Deseret News. Retrieved July 19, 2023. (Alternate link)
  5. "Amtrak - West Cheyenne/Borie, WY (BOR)". www.trainweb.org. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  6. "A Vision for Front Range Passenger Rail". Colorado Department of Transportation.

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