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The Hayden Heritage Museum is located in the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot.
The impressive old brick train depot was built in 1918, five years after the "Moffat Road" pushed through Hayden on its way to Salt Lake City, Utah. Unfortunately the line was only to go another 17 miles west to Craig, Colorado before it was discontinued.
The depot served as the lively connection to towns up and down the Yampa Valley. Summer Sunday afternoons found the platform filled with baseball lovers traveling throughout the valley to other towns to play hotly contested games with rivals.
In the winter, the train served as a link to Denver and the outside world.
The depot was a central point for this little Western town.
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