In April 1943, twenty year old Lucia Marie Arras set off alone on a train to travel to California. The girl from small town, Findlay, Ohio had rarely traveled outside her home area much less be traveling alone. She was going to California to be near her high school sweetheart, Clark Benington who had enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and was training to be a pilot.
She did not know what the future would hold for the two of them. There was no promise of marriage. There was only the uncertainty of war and a budding love.
During the next three years she frequently wrote letters home. A box of these letters was found in her belongings after her death one year ago today, February 22, 2009.
These letters are being published her in her loving memory.
City: Cheyenne
An emotional and historical journey begins the moment you stroll into the restored 1929 lobby in the Union Pacific Depot, a National Historic Landmark. Stir your imagination as you continue through the museum which captures the romance of the railroad. Witness the sacrifices of those who built the transcontinental railroad connecting the east to the west. See how the locomotives evolved from pounding steam to efficient diesels. The Cheyenne Depot Museum describes the establishment of Cheyenne and the history of this beautifully restored building. Built in 1886-1887, the Union Pacific Depot is the last of the grand 19th-century depot remaining on the transcontinental railroad. It was awarded National Historic Landmark from two principal areas, transportation and architecture. The Union Pacific Depot is one of the best examples of Richardsonian Romanesque-style in the West. The depot is located alongside the main yard of Union Pacific in historic downtown Cheyenne.
An emotional and historical journey begins the moment you stroll into the restored 1929 lobby in the Union Pacific Depot, a National Historic Landmark. The Cheyenne Depot Museum describes the establishment of Cheyenne and the history of this beautifully restored building. The museum gives the visitor an opportunity to know the people who built the railroad and the community; those who traveled the rails.
http://www.cheyennedepotmuseum.org/architecture.asp
Wonderful to see!!! I never thought to find pictures of the depot.