The complex was the chief service point on the UP main line between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming.

The Evanston complex became the Union Pacific Reclamation Plant, where rolling stock received heavy overhaul.

[4] Near the complex is a disused Union Pacific train station, built in 1900 and donated to the city of Evanston in the late 1980s.

The Union Pacific Railroad Complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

This article about a property in Wyoming on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.