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Union Pacific Railroad

March 13, 2023

"Union Pacific" redirects here. For other uses, see Union Pacific (disambiguation).
See also: History of the Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY), legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, with which it shares[2] a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern and West South Central United States.

Union Pacific Railroad
System map (trackage rights in purple)
UP 2668, a GE ET44AH, photographed in June 2016
Overview
Parent companyUnion Pacific Corporation
Headquarters1400 Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska
Reporting markUP (road locomotives), UPP (passenger cars), UPY (yard locomotives)
LocaleWestern, Midwestern and Southern United States
Dates of operation1862–present
  • First company, Union Pacific Rail Road: 1862–1880
  • Second company, Union Pacific Railway: 1880–1897
  • Third company, Union Pacific Railroad (Mark I): 1897–1998
  • Fourth company, Union Pacific Railroad (Mark II): 1969–present (originally Southern Pacific Transportation Company until 1998; renamed Union Pacific during UP-SP merger)[1]
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length32,100 miles (51,700 km)
Other
Websiteup.com

Founded in 1862, the original Union Pacific Rail Road was part of the first transcontinental railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Over the next century, UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In 1995, the Union Pacific merged with Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, completing its reach into the Upper Midwest. In 1996, the company merged with Southern Pacific Transportation Company, itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation, which are both headquartered at the Union Pacific Center, in Omaha, Nebraska.

History

Main article: History of the Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific in the 19th century

See also: First Transcontinental Railroad

The original company, the "Union Pacific Rail Road," incorporated on July 1, 1862, under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. President Abraham Lincoln had approved the act, which authorized railroad construction from the Missouri River to the Pacific to ensure the stability of the Union throughout the American Civil War,[3] but construction did not complete until after that conflict's conclusion. The resulting track ran westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet in Utah the Central Pacific Railroad line, which had been constructed eastward from Sacramento, California. The combined Union Pacific–Central Pacific line became known as the First transcontinental railroad and later the Overland Route.

The line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War.[4] Under the guidance of its dominant stockholder Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, the namesake of the city of Durant, Iowa, the first rails were laid in Omaha.[5] The two lines were joined at Promontory Summit, Utah, 53 miles (85 km) west of Ogden on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America.[6]

 
The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill (1881)

Subsequently, the UP purchased three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Railroad extending south from Ogden to Salt Lake City, the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley, and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho.[7]

 
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad gather on the 100th meridian, which later became Cozad, Nebraska, about 250 miles (400 km) west of Omaha in the Nebraska Territory, in October 1866. The train in the background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives.

The original UP was entangled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, exposed in 1872. As detailed by The Sun, Union Pacific's largest construction company, Crédit Mobilier, had overcharged Union Pacific; the railroad would then pass the inflated costs on to the United States government. To convince the federal government to accept the increased costs, Crédit Mobilier had bribed multiple congressmen. Several prominent UP board members (including Durant) had been involved in the scheme.[8] The ensuing financial crisis of 1873 led to a credit crunch, but not bankruptcy.

As boom followed bust, the Union Pacific continued to expand. A new company, with dominant stockholder Jay Gould, purchased the old on January 24, 1880. Gould already owned the Kansas Pacific (originally called the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, though in essence a separate railroad), and sought to merge it with UP. Through that merger, the original "Union Pacific Rail Road" transformed into "Union Pacific Railway."[9]

Extending towards the Pacific Northwest, Union Pacific built or purchased local lines to reach Portland, Oregon.[10] Towards Colorado, it built the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway: a system combining narrow-gauge trackage into the heart of the Rockies and a standard gauge line that ran south from Denver, across New Mexico, and into Texas.

The Union Pacific Railway would later declare bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893. The resulting corporate reorganization reversed Gould's name change: Union Pacific "Railway" merged into a new Union Pacific "Railroad."[11][12]

Union Pacific in the 20th century

In the early 20th century, Union Pacific's focus shifted from expansion to internal improvement. Recognizing that farmers in the Central and Salinas Valleys of California grew produce far in excess of local markets, Union Pacific worked with its rival Southern Pacific to develop a spoilage-resistant rail-based transport system. These efforts came culminated in the 1906 founding of Pacific Fruit Express, soon to be the world's largest lessee of refrigerated railcars.[13]

Meanwhile, Union Pacific worked to construct a faster, and more direct substitute for the original climb to Promontory Summit. In 1904, the Lucin cutoff opened, reducing curvature and grades. The original route would eventually be stripped of track in 1942 to provide war scrap.[14]

To attract customers during the Great Depression, Union Pacific's chairman W. Averell Harriman simultaneously sought to "spruce up" the quality of its rolling stock and to make its unique locations more desirable travel destinations. The first effort resulted in the purchase of the first streamlined train: the M-10000.[15] The latter resulted in the Sun Valley ski resort in central Idaho; it opened in 1936 and finally was sold in 1964.[16][17] Despite the fact that the M-10000 and its successors were among the first diesel locomotives, Union Pacific completed dieselization relatively late. In 1944, UP finally received delivery of its last steam locomotive: Union Pacific 844.[18]

As the 20th century waned, Union Pacific recognized—like most railroads—that remaining a regional railroad would only lead to bankruptcy. On December 31, 1925, UP and its subsidiaries operated 9,834 miles (15,826 km) routes and 15,265 miles (24,567 km) tracks;[citation needed] in 1980, these numbers had remained roughly constant (9,266 route-miles and 15,647 track-miles).[19] But in 1982, UP acquired the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, and 1988, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas.[20] By 1993, Union Pacific had doubled its system to 17,385 miles (27,978 km) routes.

By then, few large (class I) railroads remained. The same year that Union Pacific merged with the Chicago and North Western (1995), Burlington Northern and ATSF announced merger plans. The impending BNSF amalgamation would leave one mega-railroad in control of the west. To compete, UP merged with Southern Pacific, thereby incorporating D&RGW and Cotton Belt, and forming a duopoly in the West.[20] The merged railroad took the Union Pacific name.


Revenue passenger traffic, in millions of passenger-miles[Note 1]
Year Traffic
1925[Note 2] 1,065
1933[Note 2] 436
1944[Note 2] 5,481
1960 1,233
1970 333
Source: ICC annual reports
Revenue freight ton-miles (millions)[Note 3]
UP[Note 4] LNP&W S&EV P&IN
1925[21][full citation needed] 12,869 10 3
1933[21][full citation needed] 8,639 4 0.4 (into UP)
1944[21][full citation needed] 37,126 7 0.7
1960[21][full citation needed] 33,280 (into UP) (into UP)
1970[21][full citation needed] 47,575
1979[22][full citation needed] 73,708
1993[22][full citation needed] 220,697

Notable employees

Harry K. McClintock who worked as a Brakeman in Colorado 1917. The Big Rock Candy Mountains

Facilities

 
Intermodal terminal just outside Santa Teresa, New Mexico, used for exchanging freight with trucks from Mexico
 
Ogden, Utah, yard

The Union Pacific system includes hundreds of yards. Most are flat yards used for local switching. Other types of yards include intermodal terminals and hump yards. Most UP intermodal terminals are typically ports, but UP also has inland terminals for transfers to trucks, such as the terminal in San Antonio that opened in 2009[23][24] or the one in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, that opened in 2014.[25]

Hump yards

In 2006, Union Pacific had 12 major active hump yards:[26]

 
Roseville Rail Yard

In the late 2010s, Union Pacific began deactivating hump yards in favor of flat switching. In this, Union Pacific followed the industry-wide trend towards Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR); railway executive Hunter Harrison explained that under PSR, few yards receive enough variegated traffic to necessitate a hump.[29] Union Pacific also closed facilities in Kansas City ("Neff yard"), Hinkle, Oregon, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 2019.[30]

Locomotives and rolling stock

Union Pacific has owned some of the most powerful locomotives. These include members of the Challenger-type (including the 3985), and the Northern-type (including the 844), as well as the Big Boy steam locomotives (including the 4014). Union Pacific ordered the first diesel streamliner, the largest fleet of turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and still owns the largest operational diesel locomotive (the 6936).[31]

Paint and colors

 
Union Pacific #9214, a GE Dash 8-40C, shows the standard UP diesel locomotive livery on May 10, 1991.

The yellow paint scheme was introduced in the spring of 1934. Engineers claimed the visibility of yellow would reduce grade crossing accidents.[32] In 1941, UP introduced its yellow and gray color scheme with red highlights, which remains in use today.[33]

The middle two-thirds of the locomotive body is painted Armour Yellow,[34] a color used by Armour and Company on the packaging of its meat products. A thin band of Signal Red divides this from the Harbor Mist Gray (a light gray) used for the body and roof above that point. There is also a thin band of Signal Red along the bottom of the locomotive body, but this color has gradually become yellow as new Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) regulations for reflectorized tape came into effect in 2005; the trucks (painted Aluminum from 1955 to 1982), underframe, fuel tanks and everything else beneath that line are also Harbor Mist Gray. Lettering and numbering are in Signal Red, with black outlines. Most locomotives have white-outlined blue "wings" on the nose, on either side of the renowned shield featuring white lettering on a blue background and, below it, red and white vertical stripes. Beginning in early 2002, a number of units were repainted with a large, billowing American flag with the corporate motto "Building America" on the side, where the 'UNION PACIFIC' lettering is normally positioned.[citation needed]

 
UP locomotive GE AC4400CW #5645 in Battle Creek, Michigan, with the Flags and Flares paint scheme
 
Union Pacific #5391, approaching bridge at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, shows the white-outlined blue "wings" on the nose
 
Union Pacific #6419, in Checotah, Oklahoma with the Flags and Flares paint scheme leads a train on June 26, 2021

Merger partner locomotives

 
A former Southern Pacific GP38-2 locomotive renumbered with UP "patch" markings

Until 2017, UP operated some locomotives still in the paint scheme of their former railroads. In addition, some locomotives were renumbered by UP, varying in the degree of the previous railroads' logos being eradicated, but always with a yellow patch applied over the locomotive's former number and a new UP number applied on the cab. That allowed UP to number locomotives into its roster without spending the time and money necessary to perform a complete repaint. In May 2015, UP rostered 212 "patches", consisting of:

  • 22 Chicago and North Western (whose CNW logos have been hidden by the "patches"),
  • 174 Southern Pacific (AC4400CW, GP40-2, MP15AC, and GP60)
  • 14 St. Louis Southwestern (GP60)
  • 2 Denver and Rio Grande Western (GP60)
  • While not technically a predecessor locomotive in the traditional sense, UP also rostered a single SD40-2 (3564, since retired) still in the 1970s paint scheme, not counting DDA40X No. 6936, which was part of the Union Pacific Heritage Fleet until 2022.

In 2017, Union Pacific decided to repaint all locomotives which were not in the current corporate colors. As of March 2018, only 41 locomotives remained unpainted.[35]

Commemorative color schemes

From the second half of 2005 to the summer of 2006, UP unveiled a new set of six EMD SD70ACe locomotives in "Heritage Colors," painted in schemes reminiscent of railroads acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation since the 1980s. The engine numbers match the year that the predecessor railroad became part of the Union Pacific system. The locomotives commemorate the Missouri Pacific with UP 1982, the Western Pacific with UP 1983, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas with UP 1988, the Chicago and North Western with UP 1995, the Southern Pacific with UP 1996, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western with UP 1989.[36]

In October 2005, UP unveiled SD70ACe 4141, commissioned in honor of George Bush. The locomotive has "George Bush 41" on the sides and its paint scheme resembles that of Air Force One. It was sent into storage in 2007, but returned in 2018 to power Bush's funeral train. It was donated to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on November 8, 2019.[37][38]

On March 31, 2010, UP dedicated a specially painted GE ES44AC locomotive commemorating the centennial of the Boy Scouts of America.[39]

On September 28, 2010, UP dedicated a specially painted GE ES44AC locomotive, as a tribute to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.[40]

On October 19, 2017, Union Pacific unveiled SD70AH 1943, "The Spirit of the Union Pacific", which is painted in a scheme to honor the United States armed forces.

On June 6, 2019, Union Pacific unveiled SD70ACe 1111, the "Powered By Our People" unit.[41]

In April 2021, Union Pacific repainted an SD70M into a commemorative paint scheme called "We Are ONE" to honor Juneteenth and Pride Month.[42]

UP also has a collection of locomotives painted for Operation Lifesaver, a rail safety organization founded in 1970.[43]

2013 locomotive roster

As of October 2013, the Union Pacific had 8,185 locomotives on its active roster. The locomotive fleet consists of 43 different models and had an average age of 17.8 years.[44] According to Union Pacific, this is the largest fleet of diesel-electric locomotives in the US.[45]

Type Quantity
B40-8 91
C40-8 333
C40-8W 50
C41-8W 154
C4460AC 80
C44-9W 274
C44AC/CTE 1,485
C45AC/CTE 943
C6044AC 176
C60AC 75
GP15-1 160
GP38-2 664
GP38AC 2
GP39-2 49
GP40 15
GP40-2 142
GP40-2P 2
GP40M-2 65
GP50 48
GP60 194
MP15AC 41
MP15DC 102
SD40-2 505
SD60 85
SD60M 560
SD70ACe 321
SD70M 1,445
SD9043AC 371
SW1500 18

Heritage Equipment

Main article: Union Pacific Heritage Fleet

Union Pacific continues to use a small number of "heritage" steam locomotives and early streamlined diesel locomotives. This equipment is used on special charters (excursions).[46][47]

Type Quantity
4-8-8-4 Big Boy 1
4-8-4 FEF-3 1
E9A 2
E9B 1
 
Big Boy #4014 passes through Keller, Texas, on August 13, 2021

Low-emissions locomotives

Union Pacific maintains an extensive fleet of low-emissions locomotives. Most are used in Los Angeles basin rail yards, to satisfy an air quality agreement with the local authorities.[48][49]

 
One of the 20 new 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW) "Green Goat" locomotives manufactured for Union Pacific's "Green" Fleet by Railpower Technologies
Type Quantity
2GS14B 1
GP22T4 10
MP20B 13
3GS21B 59
PR30C ≥6
GG20GE 21
Others ≤71

Facts and figures

 
Two UP AC4400CWs, including an ex-CNW unit, lead a typical empty coal train west at Belvidere, Nebraska in July 2015

According to UP's 2007 Annual Report to Investors, at the end of 2007 it had more than 50,000 employees, 8,721 locomotives, and 94,284 freight cars.

Broken down by specific type of car, owned and leased:

In addition, it owns 6,950 different pieces of maintenance of way work equipment. At the end of 2007, the average age of UP's locomotive fleet was 14.8 years, the freight car fleet 28 years.

UP was ranked 134th on the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue and had 41,967 employees. The president of Union Pacific since 2015 is Lance Fritz.[50]

Union Pacific has been rated the worst company to work for in 2019 by 247wallst.com, citing CEO Lance Fritz's 12% approval rating and the 22% recommendation rating from Glassdoor.com.[51][52]

Passenger service

 
A CNW North Line train stops at Wilmette, Illinois, in 1963.

Commuter services

When Union Pacific bought out the Chicago & North Western in 1995, it inherited the railroad's Metra commuter rail services in the Chicago metropolitan area: the UP/North, UP/Northwest, and UP/West lines, all of which operate from the Ogilvie Transportation Center (the former North Western Station–a name still used by many Chicago residents). In order to ensure uniformity across the Chicago area commuter rail system, trains are branded as Metra services and use Metra equipment. However, Union Pacific crews continue to operate the trains under a purchase-of-service agreement.[53][54]

Former services

 
Wine label, Roma Wine Company, bottled for Union Pacific RR circa 1940s

Between 1869 and 1971, Union Pacific operated passenger service throughout its historic "Overland Route." These trains ran between Chicago and Omaha on the Chicago & Northwestern trackage starting in 1936. Disputes over trackage rights and passenger revenues with the C&NW prompted the UP to switch to the Milwaukee Road for the handling of its streamliner trains between Chicago and Omaha beginning in late 1955. The last intercity passenger train operated by UP was the westbound City of Los Angeles, arriving at LA Union Station on May 2.[55] Since then, Union Pacific has satisfied its common carrier requirements by hosting Amtrak trains.[Note 5]

Hosted trains

Many Amtrak and commuter rail routes use Union Pacific rails. This list excludes the commuter services the company directly operates in Chicago (see above).

Amtrak

Commuter trains

Notable accidents

21st century

  • September 4, 2007: a Union Pacific train derailment split the small town of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. About 16 cars derailed, most carrying salt that spilled into snow-like piles. The derailment interrupted traffic for about two hours.[57]
  • June 24, 2012: three crew members died and caused a property damage of $15 million when two Union Pacific trains collided head-on just east of Goodwell, Oklahoma. The eastbound train passed a stop signal on the main track and struck the westbound train in a siding about one mile (1.6 km) east of the meeting point.[58] The NTSB provided the probable causes as eastbound train's operator's vision problems and failure by the conductor to get backup assistance as required. NTSB stated UP did not comply with its own policies when it medically recertified the operator. The company only had six color tests despite the policy requiring a color test for 10 signals.[59]
  • November 15, 2012: A UP train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas, killing four and injuring 16 passengers on the parade float.
  • May 25, 2013: in Chaffee, Missouri, a Union Pacific train collided with a BNSF train at a level junction, injuring seven, and causing damages exceeding $10 million. The accident caused a Missouri Route M overpass to partially collapse and caused a fire.[60][61] The investigation concluded the engineer most likely fell asleep, due to sleep apnea. The uncontrolled train violated four progressively more restrictive signals before colliding with the BNSF train at roughly 40 mph (64 km/h). Three months later, the Route M overpass reopened with a new design.[62][63]
  • June 3, 2016: a 96-car oil train derailed in the Columbia River Gorge near Mosier, Oregon. Eleven cars derailed, at least one caught on fire, and 42,000 US gal (160 m3) of Bakken crude oil spilled, some going into the Columbia River. Some 10,000 US gallons (38 m3) were eventually recovered.
     
    Support column damaged in September 2019 Portland accident
  • Mid-late 2018: the Niland Geyser, a moving mud pot, encroached on the railroad near the eastern shore of the Salton Sea, requiring extensive engineering work to first delay the movement and then build a temporary diversion.[64][65][66]
  • September 7, 2019: a Union Pacific train of two locomotives and three tank cars carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and crashed into an overpass support column at the Albina Yard in Portland, Oregon[67][68] The support column is for the eastbound lanes of the six-lane Going Street overpass, which is the only public access to the major industrial area Swan Island for cars and trucks. Four lanes were left unsafe after the derailment.[69][70] Two of six lanes remain closed as of November 14, 2019.[71] The cause of the crash was broken rails.[72] There was nobody on board the train which was remotely operated at the time of crash.[70] In May 2020, another Union Pacific derailment damaged a different overpass which The Skanner described as an ongoing safety concern.[73]
  • March 21, 2022: a Union Pacific freight train derailed and fell from a viaduct in Colton, California.[74]

San Antonio area

On June 28, 2004, a UP train collided with an idle BNSF train in a San Antonio suburb. In the course of the derailment, a 90-ton tank car carrying liquified chlorine was punctured. As the chlorine vaporized, a toxic "yellow cloud" formed, killing three and causing 43 hospitalizations. The costs of cleanup and property damaged during the incident exceeded $7 million.[75]

 
Deadly derailment in Macdona, Texas, on June 28, 2004.

Investigations of the Macdona incident revealed several serious safety lapses on the part of the Union Pacific and its employees, including employees not following the company's own safety rules.[76] While the immediate cause of the derailment was the UP crew's "fatigue," chlorine tank cars had been improperly placed near the front of the train, a danger in the case of derailment.[77]

The Macdona incident was not the first derailment in the San Antonio area. Between May and November 1994, Union Pacific trains derailed five times, killing at least 4 people.[78] Between June 2004 and March 2005, 10 trains derailed, killing as many people.[79]

In the aftermath of Macdona, the Federal Railroad Administration signed a compliance agreement with the railroad in which the railroad promised to rectify the "notable deficiencies" that regulators found.[76][79] But the relative impunity UP seemed to exhibit regarding the derailment led to suggestions that the FRA was far "too cozy...to the railroads."[76] In March 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry supported a plan to reroute trains around large urban population centers in Texas, including San Antonio, but such a plan was purely voluntary and had no timetable associated.[79]

Trains have continued to derail in the area[80][81][82] including an incident in June 2009 where tank cars containing chlorine and petroleum naptha xylene derailed, but did not spill.[83][84][needs update]

Community responsibility

Transient camp and graffiti issues

The City of San Jose, California threatened Union Pacific with a lawsuit in 2019 after years of complaints about transient and graffiti blight going unaddressed. For the first time in many years, Union Pacific cleaned out along the tracks starting in November 2019. San Jose Councilman Sergio Jimenez said

“The reality is that Union Pacific has not been a good neighbor,”[85]

San Jose's mayor Sam Liccardo said

"At any given conference of mayors, you won’t hear anyone expressing confidence that Union Pacific will respond nimbly or collaboratively," and "But we are hopeful that the (memorandum of understanding) will turn a page on Union Pacific’s behavior in the past to enable a more collaborative relationship going forward."[86]

The Mercury News reports that company has been uncooperative and non responsive to working together, such as failing to come through with graffiti abatement as Union Pacific had promised the city.[85]

2022 Utah Legislative Action

In 2022, Legislators in Utah brought forth two separate bills specifically aimed at Union Pacific. The first, HB181, was raised after some municipalities encountered resistance from Union Pacific when attempting to upgrade rail crossings. In Logan, Utah, Union Pacific altered a construction agreement to require the city to pay maintenance fees in perpetuity for an upgraded crossing, a mandate which was against state code.[87] The proposed legislation would make it easier for municipalities to get crossing improvements approved, and clarifies which party must pay associated maintenance costs. The second bill, HB405, would have required Union Pacific to replace their ageing fleet of Tier 0 switching locomotives with hydrogen or electric engines by 2028, due to Utah having very poor air quality in winter months. According to Utah Senator Schultz, Union Pacific was uncooperative on the switching locomotive bill if Utah did not drop the railroad crossings bill. Ultimately, HB181 passed, and HB405 was dropped after Union Pacific made voluntary commitments to replace several tier 0 switching locomotives with less polluting tier 2 locomotives, as well as to test some all electric ones in the Utah Roper Rail Yard.[88][89]

Environmental record

In Eugene, Oregon, where pollution from a century-old rail yard has been seeping into groundwater, the UP and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality launched a study of ground contamination in 2008. The pollutants are mostly petroleum hydrocarbons, industrial solvents, and metals.[90]

In 2007, Union Pacific Railroad worked with the US EPA to develop a way to reduce locomotive exhaust emissions. They discovered that adding an oxidation catalyst filtering canister to the diesel engine's exhaust manifold and using ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel would reduce particulate emissions by about half, unburned hydrocarbons by 38 percent, and carbon monoxide by 82 percent.[91]

The company's Fuel Master program rewards locomotive engineers who save the most fuel each month. The program has saved the company millions of dollars, much of which has been returned to the engineers. In 2006, the program's founder, Wayne Kennedy, received the John H. Chafee Environmental Award, and the program was recognized by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta.[92]

In January 2018, a former waste water operator at Union Pacific Albina Yard in Portland, Oregon employed by the railroad's contractor Mott MacDonald negligently released thousands of gallons of oil into the environment. The operator was distracted by a cell phone and allowed the tank to overflow for over an hour. An engineering firm hired by Union Pacific estimates 1,800 U.S. gallons (6,800 liters) of it was released into nearby Willamette River, not including the spill that was captured by the containment booms. Employees of United States Environmental Protection Agency who were working at facilities nearby placed booms to contain the oil spill. Federal prosecutors have charged the operator Robert LaRue Webb II with violation of the Clean Water Act for releasing the oil into the environment. Webb plead guilty in August 2019[93] and was sentenced to two years probation and a $2,500 fine.[94][95][96]

In 2016, the Union Pacific Railroad Co. was named as a defendant in a lawsuit seeking cleanup of a contaminated rail yard site that operated in Lafayette, Louisiana, from the late 1800s until the 1960s.[97]

In 2020, Houston residents living near a Union Pacific Railroad Company rail yard filed lawsuits against the Union Pacific. These lawsuits followed the finding by the State of Texas of a higher-than-expected incidence of certain cancers in residents living close to the yard.[98] A State of Texas report released in 2021 identified an additional cancer cluster of lymphoblastic leukemia in children.[99]

EMP

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are the largest owner-partners of EMP, a domestic freight interline intermodal freight transport service that rents and moves more than 35,000 53-foot containers and chassis throughout North America. Other partners in the freight company include CN Railway, CP Railway, I&M Rail Link, Iowa Interstate Railroad, Wisconsin Central Ltd., and Kansas City Southern Railway.

[100][101][102]

Union Pacific Railroad Museum

 
The Union Pacific Railroad Museum

The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is a former Carnegie library[103] in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that houses artifacts, photographs, and documents that trace the development of the railroad and the American West. The company pays upkeep on the privately owned building, which houses part of Union Pacific's corporate collection, one of the oldest in the United States. Holdings include weapons from the late 19th and 20th centuries, outlaw paraphernalia, a sampling of the immigrants' possessions, and a photograph collection comprising more than 500,000 images.[104][105]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Includes subsidiaries Oregon Short Line Railroad, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway, but not jointly-owned subsidiaries Spokane International Railroad or Mount Hood Railroad.
  2. ^ a b c Does not include LNP&W, S&EV, or P&IN
  3. ^ Does not include jointly-owned subsidiaries Spokane International Railroad or Mount Hood Railroad; entry for 1993 includes all subsidiaries
  4. ^ Includes subsidiaries Oregon Short Line Railroad, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway.
  5. ^ Merger partner D&RGW elected not to join Amtrak and continued operating the Rio Grande Zephyr until 1983.[56]
  6. ^ a b This service runs on its own dedicated tracks within a UP right of way.

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Further reading

  • Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000). Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863–1869. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84609-5.
  • Athearn, Robert G. (1971). Union Pacific Country (Reprinted ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803208582. – covers impact of the railroad on the region it served from the 1860s to the 1890s.
  • Cahill, Marie; Piade, Lynne, eds. (1994). The history of the Union Pacific : America's great transcontinental railroad. New York: Smithmark. ISBN 9780831737993. – heavily illustrated
  • Collins, Ryan Michael (2011). Irish Gandy Dancer : A Tale of Building the Transcontinental Railroad. Charleston, S.C.: Createspace. ISBN 9781452826318.
  • Cooper, Bruce C., ed. (2004). Riding the Transcontinental Rails : Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad, 1865-1881. Philadelphia: Polyglot Press. ISBN 978-1-4115-9993-2.
  • Galloway, John Debo (1989). The first transcontinental railroad : Central Pacific, Union Pacific. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 9780880294096.
  • Kelly, John (2009). Union Pacific Railroad : passenger trains of the city fleet photo archive. Hudson, Wis.: Iconografix. ISBN 978-1-58388-236-8.
  • Klein, Maury (2006) [1989]. Union Pacific: Volume 1, 1862-1893. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816696635. – the standard scholarly history
  • Klein, Maury (2006) [1989]. Union Pacific: Volume II, 1894-1969. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4460-5.
  • Klein, Maury (2011). Union Pacific the reconfiguration : America's greatest railroad from 1969 to the present. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199708581.
  • Mitchell, Thomas Warner (August 1907). "The Growth of the Union Pacific and Its Financial Operations". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 21 (4): 569–612. doi:10.2307/1883588. JSTOR 1883588.
  • Perry, John D.; Wright, William Wierman; LeConte, John Lawrence (1868). Letter of John D. Perry, President of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern ... Union Pacific Railway: Reports Showing the Necessity and Advantages of its Construction to the Pacific By Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, President. Philadelphia: Review Printing House. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  • White, Richard (2011). Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06126-0.
  • Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1936), "North American Railroads", Railway Wonders of the World, pp. 1533–1542, OCLC 580319 illustrated account of the Union Pacific and other North American Railroads

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Union Pacific redirects here For other uses see Union Pacific disambiguation See also History of the Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad reporting marks UP UPP UPY legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8 300 locomotives over 32 200 miles 51 800 km routes in 23 U S states west of Chicago and New Orleans Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF with which it shares 2 a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western Midwestern and West South Central United States Union Pacific RailroadSystem map trackage rights in purple UP 2668 a GE ET44AH photographed in June 2016OverviewParent companyUnion Pacific CorporationHeadquarters1400 Douglas Street Omaha NebraskaReporting markUP road locomotives UPP passenger cars UPY yard locomotives LocaleWestern Midwestern and Southern United StatesDates of operation1862 present First company Union Pacific Rail Road 1862 1880 Second company Union Pacific Railway 1880 1897 Third company Union Pacific Railroad Mark I 1897 1998 Fourth company Union Pacific Railroad Mark II 1969 present originally Southern Pacific Transportation Company until 1998 renamed Union Pacific during UP SP merger 1 TechnicalTrack gauge4 ft 8 1 2 in 1 435 mm standard gaugeLength32 100 miles 51 700 km OtherWebsiteup comFounded in 1862 the original Union Pacific Rail Road was part of the first transcontinental railroad project later known as the Overland Route Over the next century UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad the Western Pacific Railroad the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad In 1995 the Union Pacific merged with Chicago and North Western Transportation Company completing its reach into the Upper Midwest In 1996 the company merged with Southern Pacific Transportation Company itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation which are both headquartered at the Union Pacific Center in Omaha Nebraska Contents 1 History 1 1 Union Pacific in the 19th century 1 2 Union Pacific in the 20th century 2 Notable employees 3 Facilities 3 1 Hump yards 4 Locomotives and rolling stock 4 1 Paint and colors 4 1 1 Merger partner locomotives 4 1 2 Commemorative color schemes 4 2 2013 locomotive roster 4 2 1 Heritage Equipment 4 2 2 Low emissions locomotives 5 Facts and figures 6 Passenger service 6 1 Commuter services 6 2 Former services 6 3 Hosted trains 6 3 1 Amtrak 6 3 2 Commuter trains 7 Notable accidents 7 1 21st century 7 1 1 San Antonio area 8 Community responsibility 8 1 Transient camp and graffiti issues 8 2 2022 Utah Legislative Action 9 Environmental record 10 EMP 11 Union Pacific Railroad Museum 12 See also 13 Notes 14 References 15 Further reading 16 External linksHistory EditMain article History of the Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific in the 19th century Edit See also First Transcontinental Railroad The original company the Union Pacific Rail Road incorporated on July 1 1862 under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 President Abraham Lincoln had approved the act which authorized railroad construction from the Missouri River to the Pacific to ensure the stability of the Union throughout the American Civil War 3 but construction did not complete until after that conflict s conclusion The resulting track ran westward from Council Bluffs Iowa to meet in Utah the Central Pacific Railroad line which had been constructed eastward from Sacramento California The combined Union Pacific Central Pacific line became known as the First transcontinental railroad and later the Overland Route The line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War 4 Under the guidance of its dominant stockholder Dr Thomas Clark Durant the namesake of the city of Durant Iowa the first rails were laid in Omaha 5 The two lines were joined at Promontory Summit Utah 53 miles 85 km west of Ogden on May 10 1869 hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America 6 The Last Spike by Thomas Hill 1881 Subsequently the UP purchased three Mormon built roads the Utah Central Railroad extending south from Ogden to Salt Lake City the Utah Southern Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley and the Utah Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho 7 Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad gather on the 100th meridian which later became Cozad Nebraska about 250 miles 400 km west of Omaha in the Nebraska Territory in October 1866 The train in the background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists newspapermen and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives The original UP was entangled in the Credit Mobilier scandal exposed in 1872 As detailed by The Sun Union Pacific s largest construction company Credit Mobilier had overcharged Union Pacific the railroad would then pass the inflated costs on to the United States government To convince the federal government to accept the increased costs Credit Mobilier had bribed multiple congressmen Several prominent UP board members including Durant had been involved in the scheme 8 The ensuing financial crisis of 1873 led to a credit crunch but not bankruptcy As boom followed bust the Union Pacific continued to expand A new company with dominant stockholder Jay Gould purchased the old on January 24 1880 Gould already owned the Kansas Pacific originally called the Union Pacific Eastern Division though in essence a separate railroad and sought to merge it with UP Through that merger the original Union Pacific Rail Road transformed into Union Pacific Railway 9 Extending towards the Pacific Northwest Union Pacific built or purchased local lines to reach Portland Oregon 10 Towards Colorado it built the Union Pacific Denver and Gulf Railway a system combining narrow gauge trackage into the heart of the Rockies and a standard gauge line that ran south from Denver across New Mexico and into Texas The Union Pacific Railway would later declare bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893 The resulting corporate reorganization reversed Gould s name change Union Pacific Railway merged into a new Union Pacific Railroad 11 12 Union Pacific in the 20th century Edit In the early 20th century Union Pacific s focus shifted from expansion to internal improvement Recognizing that farmers in the Central and Salinas Valleys of California grew produce far in excess of local markets Union Pacific worked with its rival Southern Pacific to develop a spoilage resistant rail based transport system These efforts came culminated in the 1906 founding of Pacific Fruit Express soon to be the world s largest lessee of refrigerated railcars 13 Meanwhile Union Pacific worked to construct a faster and more direct substitute for the original climb to Promontory Summit In 1904 the Lucin cutoff opened reducing curvature and grades The original route would eventually be stripped of track in 1942 to provide war scrap 14 To attract customers during the Great Depression Union Pacific s chairman W Averell Harriman simultaneously sought to spruce up the quality of its rolling stock and to make its unique locations more desirable travel destinations The first effort resulted in the purchase of the first streamlined train the M 10000 15 The latter resulted in the Sun Valley ski resort in central Idaho it opened in 1936 and finally was sold in 1964 16 17 Despite the fact that the M 10000 and its successors were among the first diesel locomotives Union Pacific completed dieselization relatively late In 1944 UP finally received delivery of its last steam locomotive Union Pacific 844 18 As the 20th century waned Union Pacific recognized like most railroads that remaining a regional railroad would only lead to bankruptcy On December 31 1925 UP and its subsidiaries operated 9 834 miles 15 826 km routes and 15 265 miles 24 567 km tracks citation needed in 1980 these numbers had remained roughly constant 9 266 route miles and 15 647 track miles 19 But in 1982 UP acquired the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads and 1988 the Missouri Kansas Texas 20 By 1993 Union Pacific had doubled its system to 17 385 miles 27 978 km routes By then few large class I railroads remained The same year that Union Pacific merged with the Chicago and North Western 1995 Burlington Northern and ATSF announced merger plans The impending BNSF amalgamation would leave one mega railroad in control of the west To compete UP merged with Southern Pacific thereby incorporating D amp RGW and Cotton Belt and forming a duopoly in the West 20 The merged railroad took the Union Pacific name Revenue passenger traffic in millions of passenger miles Note 1 Year Traffic1925 Note 2 1 0651933 Note 2 4361944 Note 2 5 4811960 1 2331970 333Source ICC annual reports Revenue freight ton miles millions Note 3 UP Note 4 LNP amp W S amp EV P amp IN1925 21 full citation needed 12 869 10 31933 21 full citation needed 8 639 4 0 4 into UP 1944 21 full citation needed 37 126 7 0 71960 21 full citation needed 33 280 into UP into UP 1970 21 full citation needed 47 5751979 22 full citation needed 73 7081993 22 full citation needed 220 697Notable employees EditHarry K McClintock who worked as a Brakeman in Colorado 1917 The Big Rock Candy MountainsFacilities Edit Intermodal terminal just outside Santa Teresa New Mexico used for exchanging freight with trucks from Mexico Ogden Utah yard The Union Pacific system includes hundreds of yards Most are flat yards used for local switching Other types of yards include intermodal terminals and hump yards Most UP intermodal terminals are typically ports but UP also has inland terminals for transfers to trucks such as the terminal in San Antonio that opened in 2009 23 24 or the one in Santa Teresa New Mexico that opened in 2014 25 Hump yards Edit In 2006 Union Pacific had 12 major active hump yards 26 Albina Yard in Portland Oregon present since 1881 27 Bailey Yard in North Platte Nebraska Beaumont Yard in Beaumont Texas Davidson Yard in Fort Worth Texas Davis Yard in Roseville California Roseville Rail Yard Englewood Yard in Houston Texas Gateway Yard in East St Louis Illinois owned by subsidiary Alton and Southern Railway Livonia Yard in Livonia Louisiana North Little Rock Yard in North Little Rock Arkansas Proviso Yard in Northlake Illinois owned by Chicago and North Western Transportation Company until 1995 Strang Yard in La Porte Texas West Colton Yard in Bloomington California 28 In the late 2010s Union Pacific began deactivating hump yards in favor of flat switching In this Union Pacific followed the industry wide trend towards Precision Scheduled Railroading PSR railway executive Hunter Harrison explained that under PSR few yards receive enough variegated traffic to necessitate a hump 29 Union Pacific also closed facilities in Kansas City Neff yard Hinkle Oregon and Pine Bluff Arkansas in 2019 30 Locomotives and rolling stock EditUnion Pacific has owned some of the most powerful locomotives These include members of the Challenger type including the 3985 and the Northern type including the 844 as well as the Big Boy steam locomotives including the 4014 Union Pacific ordered the first diesel streamliner the largest fleet of turbine electric locomotives in the world and still owns the largest operational diesel locomotive the 6936 31 Paint and colors Edit Union Pacific 9214 a GE Dash 8 40C shows the standard UP diesel locomotive livery on May 10 1991 The yellow paint scheme was introduced in the spring of 1934 Engineers claimed the visibility of yellow would reduce grade crossing accidents 32 In 1941 UP introduced its yellow and gray color scheme with red highlights which remains in use today 33 The middle two thirds of the locomotive body is painted Armour Yellow 34 a color used by Armour and Company on the packaging of its meat products A thin band of Signal Red divides this from the Harbor Mist Gray a light gray used for the body and roof above that point There is also a thin band of Signal Red along the bottom of the locomotive body but this color has gradually become yellow as new Federal Railroad Administration FRA regulations for reflectorized tape came into effect in 2005 the trucks painted Aluminum from 1955 to 1982 underframe fuel tanks and everything else beneath that line are also Harbor Mist Gray Lettering and numbering are in Signal Red with black outlines Most locomotives have white outlined blue wings on the nose on either side of the renowned shield featuring white lettering on a blue background and below it red and white vertical stripes Beginning in early 2002 a number of units were repainted with a large billowing American flag with the corporate motto Building America on the side where the UNION PACIFIC lettering is normally positioned citation needed UP locomotive GE AC4400CW 5645 in Battle Creek Michigan with the Flags and Flares paint scheme Union Pacific 5391 approaching bridge at Multnomah Falls Oregon shows the white outlined blue wings on the nose Union Pacific 6419 in Checotah Oklahoma with the Flags and Flares paint scheme leads a train on June 26 2021 Merger partner locomotives Edit A former Southern Pacific GP38 2 locomotive renumbered with UP patch markings Until 2017 UP operated some locomotives still in the paint scheme of their former railroads In addition some locomotives were renumbered by UP varying in the degree of the previous railroads logos being eradicated but always with a yellow patch applied over the locomotive s former number and a new UP number applied on the cab That allowed UP to number locomotives into its roster without spending the time and money necessary to perform a complete repaint In May 2015 UP rostered 212 patches consisting of 22 Chicago and North Western whose CNW logos have been hidden by the patches 174 Southern Pacific AC4400CW GP40 2 MP15AC and GP60 14 St Louis Southwestern GP60 2 Denver and Rio Grande Western GP60 While not technically a predecessor locomotive in the traditional sense UP also rostered a single SD40 2 3564 since retired still in the 1970s paint scheme not counting DDA40X No 6936 which was part of the Union Pacific Heritage Fleet until 2022 In 2017 Union Pacific decided to repaint all locomotives which were not in the current corporate colors As of March 2018 update only 41 locomotives remained unpainted 35 Commemorative color schemes Edit From the second half of 2005 to the summer of 2006 UP unveiled a new set of six EMD SD70ACe locomotives in Heritage Colors painted in schemes reminiscent of railroads acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation since the 1980s The engine numbers match the year that the predecessor railroad became part of the Union Pacific system The locomotives commemorate the Missouri Pacific with UP 1982 the Western Pacific with UP 1983 the Missouri Kansas Texas with UP 1988 the Chicago and North Western with UP 1995 the Southern Pacific with UP 1996 and the Denver and Rio Grande Western with UP 1989 36 In October 2005 UP unveiled SD70ACe 4141 commissioned in honor of George Bush The locomotive has George Bush 41 on the sides and its paint scheme resembles that of Air Force One It was sent into storage in 2007 but returned in 2018 to power Bush s funeral train It was donated to the George H W Bush Presidential Library and Museum on November 8 2019 37 38 On March 31 2010 UP dedicated a specially painted GE ES44AC locomotive commemorating the centennial of the Boy Scouts of America 39 On September 28 2010 UP dedicated a specially painted GE ES44AC locomotive as a tribute to Susan G Komen for the Cure 40 On October 19 2017 Union Pacific unveiled SD70AH 1943 The Spirit of the Union Pacific which is painted in a scheme to honor the United States armed forces On June 6 2019 Union Pacific unveiled SD70ACe 1111 the Powered By Our People unit 41 In April 2021 Union Pacific repainted an SD70M into a commemorative paint scheme called We Are ONE to honor Juneteenth and Pride Month 42 UP also has a collection of locomotives painted for Operation Lifesaver a rail safety organization founded in 1970 43 2013 locomotive roster Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information January 2022 As of October 2013 the Union Pacific had 8 185 locomotives on its active roster The locomotive fleet consists of 43 different models and had an average age of 17 8 years 44 According to Union Pacific this is the largest fleet of diesel electric locomotives in the US 45 Type QuantityB40 8 91C40 8 333C40 8W 50C41 8W 154C4460AC 80C44 9W 274C44AC CTE 1 485C45AC CTE 943C6044AC 176C60AC 75GP15 1 160GP38 2 664GP38AC 2GP39 2 49GP40 15GP40 2 142GP40 2P 2GP40M 2 65GP50 48GP60 194MP15AC 41MP15DC 102SD40 2 505SD60 85SD60M 560SD70ACe 321SD70M 1 445SD9043AC 371SW1500 18Heritage Equipment Edit Main article Union Pacific Heritage Fleet Union Pacific continues to use a small number of heritage steam locomotives and early streamlined diesel locomotives This equipment is used on special charters excursions 46 47 Type Quantity4 8 8 4 Big Boy 14 8 4 FEF 3 1E9A 2E9B 1 Big Boy 4014 passes through Keller Texas on August 13 2021 Low emissions locomotives EditUnion Pacific maintains an extensive fleet of low emissions locomotives Most are used in Los Angeles basin rail yards to satisfy an air quality agreement with the local authorities 48 49 One of the 20 new 2 000 horsepower 1 500 kW Green Goat locomotives manufactured for Union Pacific s Green Fleet by Railpower Technologies Type Quantity2GS14B 1GP22T4 10MP20B 133GS21B 59PR30C 6GG20GE 21Others 71Facts and figures Edit Two UP AC4400CWs including an ex CNW unit lead a typical empty coal train west at Belvidere Nebraska in July 2015 According to UP s 2007 Annual Report to Investors at the end of 2007 it had more than 50 000 employees 8 721 locomotives and 94 284 freight cars Broken down by specific type of car owned and leased 35 437 covered hoppers 12 272 boxcars 18 647 open top hoppers 13 780 gondolas 14 148 other types of carsIn addition it owns 6 950 different pieces of maintenance of way work equipment At the end of 2007 the average age of UP s locomotive fleet was 14 8 years the freight car fleet 28 years UP was ranked 134th on the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue and had 41 967 employees The president of Union Pacific since 2015 is Lance Fritz 50 Union Pacific has been rated the worst company to work for in 2019 by 247wallst com citing CEO Lance Fritz s 12 approval rating and the 22 recommendation rating from Glassdoor com 51 52 Passenger service Edit A CNW North Line train stops at Wilmette Illinois in 1963 Commuter services Edit When Union Pacific bought out the Chicago amp North Western in 1995 it inherited the railroad s Metra commuter rail services in the Chicago metropolitan area the UP North UP Northwest and UP West lines all of which operate from the Ogilvie Transportation Center the former North Western Station a name still used by many Chicago residents In order to ensure uniformity across the Chicago area commuter rail system trains are branded as Metra services and use Metra equipment However Union Pacific crews continue to operate the trains under a purchase of service agreement 53 54 Former services Edit Wine label Roma Wine Company bottled for Union Pacific RR circa 1940s Between 1869 and 1971 Union Pacific operated passenger service throughout its historic Overland Route These trains ran between Chicago and Omaha on the Chicago amp Northwestern trackage starting in 1936 Disputes over trackage rights and passenger revenues with the C amp NW prompted the UP to switch to the Milwaukee Road for the handling of its streamliner trains between Chicago and Omaha beginning in late 1955 The last intercity passenger train operated by UP was the westbound City of Los Angeles arriving at LA Union Station on May 2 55 Since then Union Pacific has satisfied its common carrier requirements by hosting Amtrak trains Note 5 Hosted trains Edit Many Amtrak and commuter rail routes use Union Pacific rails This list excludes the commuter services the company directly operates in Chicago see above Amtrak Edit Amtrak Cascades California Zephyr Capitol Corridor Coast Starlight Lincoln Service Missouri River Runner Pacific Surfliner San Joaquin Sunset Limited Texas EagleCommuter trains Edit Altamont Corridor Express Caltrain FrontRunner Note 6 Metrolink Riverside Line Ventura County Line RTD commuter rail G Line Note 6 Trinity Railway ExpressNotable accidents Edit21st century Edit September 4 2007 a Union Pacific train derailment split the small town of Sergeant Bluff Iowa About 16 cars derailed most carrying salt that spilled into snow like piles The derailment interrupted traffic for about two hours 57 June 24 2012 three crew members died and caused a property damage of 15 million when two Union Pacific trains collided head on just east of Goodwell Oklahoma The eastbound train passed a stop signal on the main track and struck the westbound train in a siding about one mile 1 6 km east of the meeting point 58 The NTSB provided the probable causes as eastbound train s operator s vision problems and failure by the conductor to get backup assistance as required NTSB stated UP did not comply with its own policies when it medically recertified the operator The company only had six color tests despite the policy requiring a color test for 10 signals 59 November 15 2012 A UP train struck a parade float in Midland Texas killing four and injuring 16 passengers on the parade float May 25 2013 in Chaffee Missouri a Union Pacific train collided with a BNSF train at a level junction injuring seven and causing damages exceeding 10 million The accident caused a Missouri Route M overpass to partially collapse and caused a fire 60 61 The investigation concluded the engineer most likely fell asleep due to sleep apnea The uncontrolled train violated four progressively more restrictive signals before colliding with the BNSF train at roughly 40 mph 64 km h Three months later the Route M overpass reopened with a new design 62 63 June 3 2016 a 96 car oil train derailed in the Columbia River Gorge near Mosier Oregon Eleven cars derailed at least one caught on fire and 42 000 US gal 160 m3 of Bakken crude oil spilled some going into the Columbia River Some 10 000 US gallons 38 m3 were eventually recovered Support column damaged in September 2019 Portland accident Mid late 2018 the Niland Geyser a moving mud pot encroached on the railroad near the eastern shore of the Salton Sea requiring extensive engineering work to first delay the movement and then build a temporary diversion 64 65 66 September 7 2019 a Union Pacific train of two locomotives and three tank cars carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and crashed into an overpass support column at the Albina Yard in Portland Oregon 67 68 The support column is for the eastbound lanes of the six lane Going Street overpass which is the only public access to the major industrial area Swan Island for cars and trucks Four lanes were left unsafe after the derailment 69 70 Two of six lanes remain closed as of November 14 2019 71 The cause of the crash was broken rails 72 There was nobody on board the train which was remotely operated at the time of crash 70 In May 2020 another Union Pacific derailment damaged a different overpass which The Skanner described as an ongoing safety concern 73 March 21 2022 a Union Pacific freight train derailed and fell from a viaduct in Colton California 74 San Antonio area EditOn June 28 2004 a UP train collided with an idle BNSF train in a San Antonio suburb In the course of the derailment a 90 ton tank car carrying liquified chlorine was punctured As the chlorine vaporized a toxic yellow cloud formed killing three and causing 43 hospitalizations The costs of cleanup and property damaged during the incident exceeded 7 million 75 Deadly derailment in Macdona Texas on June 28 2004 Investigations of the Macdona incident revealed several serious safety lapses on the part of the Union Pacific and its employees including employees not following the company s own safety rules 76 While the immediate cause of the derailment was the UP crew s fatigue chlorine tank cars had been improperly placed near the front of the train a danger in the case of derailment 77 The Macdona incident was not the first derailment in the San Antonio area Between May and November 1994 Union Pacific trains derailed five times killing at least 4 people 78 Between June 2004 and March 2005 10 trains derailed killing as many people 79 In the aftermath of Macdona the Federal Railroad Administration signed a compliance agreement with the railroad in which the railroad promised to rectify the notable deficiencies that regulators found 76 79 But the relative impunity UP seemed to exhibit regarding the derailment led to suggestions that the FRA was far too cozy to the railroads 76 In March 2005 Texas Governor Rick Perry supported a plan to reroute trains around large urban population centers in Texas including San Antonio but such a plan was purely voluntary and had no timetable associated 79 Trains have continued to derail in the area 80 81 82 including an incident in June 2009 where tank cars containing chlorine and petroleum naptha xylene derailed but did not spill 83 84 needs update Community responsibility EditThis section may lend undue weight to certain ideas incidents or controversies Please help improve it by rewriting it in a balanced fashion that contextualizes different points of view June 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Transient camp and graffiti issues EditThe City of San Jose California threatened Union Pacific with a lawsuit in 2019 after years of complaints about transient and graffiti blight going unaddressed For the first time in many years Union Pacific cleaned out along the tracks starting in November 2019 San Jose Councilman Sergio Jimenez said The reality is that Union Pacific has not been a good neighbor 85 San Jose s mayor Sam Liccardo said At any given conference of mayors you won t hear anyone expressing confidence that Union Pacific will respond nimbly or collaboratively and But we are hopeful that the memorandum of understanding will turn a page on Union Pacific s behavior in the past to enable a more collaborative relationship going forward 86 The Mercury News reports that company has been uncooperative and non responsive to working together such as failing to come through with graffiti abatement as Union Pacific had promised the city 85 2022 Utah Legislative Action Edit In 2022 Legislators in Utah brought forth two separate bills specifically aimed at Union Pacific The first HB181 was raised after some municipalities encountered resistance from Union Pacific when attempting to upgrade rail crossings In Logan Utah Union Pacific altered a construction agreement to require the city to pay maintenance fees in perpetuity for an upgraded crossing a mandate which was against state code 87 The proposed legislation would make it easier for municipalities to get crossing improvements approved and clarifies which party must pay associated maintenance costs The second bill HB405 would have required Union Pacific to replace their ageing fleet of Tier 0 switching locomotives with hydrogen or electric engines by 2028 due to Utah having very poor air quality in winter months According to Utah Senator Schultz Union Pacific was uncooperative on the switching locomotive bill if Utah did not drop the railroad crossings bill Ultimately HB181 passed and HB405 was dropped after Union Pacific made voluntary commitments to replace several tier 0 switching locomotives with less polluting tier 2 locomotives as well as to test some all electric ones in the Utah Roper Rail Yard 88 89 Environmental record EditIn Eugene Oregon where pollution from a century old rail yard has been seeping into groundwater the UP and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality launched a study of ground contamination in 2008 The pollutants are mostly petroleum hydrocarbons industrial solvents and metals 90 In 2007 Union Pacific Railroad worked with the US EPA to develop a way to reduce locomotive exhaust emissions They discovered that adding an oxidation catalyst filtering canister to the diesel engine s exhaust manifold and using ultra low sulfur diesel fuel would reduce particulate emissions by about half unburned hydrocarbons by 38 percent and carbon monoxide by 82 percent 91 The company s Fuel Master program rewards locomotive engineers who save the most fuel each month The program has saved the company millions of dollars much of which has been returned to the engineers In 2006 the program s founder Wayne Kennedy received the John H Chafee Environmental Award and the program was recognized by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta 92 In January 2018 a former waste water operator at Union Pacific Albina Yard in Portland Oregon employed by the railroad s contractor Mott MacDonald negligently released thousands of gallons of oil into the environment The operator was distracted by a cell phone and allowed the tank to overflow for over an hour An engineering firm hired by Union Pacific estimates 1 800 U S gallons 6 800 liters of it was released into nearby Willamette River not including the spill that was captured by the containment booms Employees of United States Environmental Protection Agency who were working at facilities nearby placed booms to contain the oil spill Federal prosecutors have charged the operator Robert LaRue Webb II with violation of the Clean Water Act for releasing the oil into the environment Webb plead guilty in August 2019 93 and was sentenced to two years probation and a 2 500 fine 94 95 96 In 2016 the Union Pacific Railroad Co was named as a defendant in a lawsuit seeking cleanup of a contaminated rail yard site that operated in Lafayette Louisiana from the late 1800s until the 1960s 97 In 2020 Houston residents living near a Union Pacific Railroad Company rail yard filed lawsuits against the Union Pacific These lawsuits followed the finding by the State of Texas of a higher than expected incidence of certain cancers in residents living close to the yard 98 A State of Texas report released in 2021 identified an additional cancer cluster of lymphoblastic leukemia in children 99 EMP EditUnion Pacific and Norfolk Southern are the largest owner partners of EMP a domestic freight interline intermodal freight transport service that rents and moves more than 35 000 53 foot containers and chassis throughout North America Other partners in the freight company include CN Railway CP Railway I amp M Rail Link Iowa Interstate Railroad Wisconsin Central Ltd and Kansas City Southern Railway 100 101 102 Union Pacific Railroad Museum Edit The Union Pacific Railroad Museum The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is a former Carnegie library 103 in Council Bluffs Iowa that houses artifacts photographs and documents that trace the development of the railroad and the American West The company pays upkeep on the privately owned building which houses part of Union Pacific s corporate collection one of the oldest in the United States Holdings include weapons from the late 19th and 20th centuries outlaw paraphernalia a sampling of the immigrants possessions and a photograph collection comprising more than 500 000 images 104 105 See also Edit Companies portal Trains portal United States portalCentral Pacific Railroad First transcontinental railroad Hell on Wheels TV series involving Union Pacific set in 1865 History of rail transportation in California Kansas Pacific Railway Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Missouri Pacific Railroad Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Oregon Short Line Pacific Fruit Express Railex Southern Pacific Transportation Company Sun Valley Idaho Western Pacific RailroadNotes Edit Includes subsidiaries Oregon Short Line Railroad Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and St Joseph and Grand Island Railway but not jointly owned subsidiaries Spokane International Railroad or Mount Hood Railroad a b c Does not include LNP amp W S amp EV or P amp IN Does not include jointly owned subsidiaries Spokane International Railroad or Mount Hood Railroad entry for 1993 includes all subsidiaries Includes subsidiaries Oregon Short Line Railroad Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and St Joseph and Grand Island Railway Merger partner D amp RGW elected not to join Amtrak and continued operating the Rio Grande Zephyr until 1983 56 a b This service runs on its own dedicated tracks within a UP right of way References Edit EMPLOYER STATUS DETERMINATION Union Pacific Railroad Company Southern Pacific Transportation Company PDF Railroad Retirement Board Company Overview Union Pacific Corporation December 31 2013 Retrieved March 27 2014 An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal military and other purposes Archived May 27 2016 at the Wayback Machine 12 Stat 489 July 1 1862 Collins R M 2010 Irish Gandy Dancer A tale of building the Transcontinental Railroad Seattle Create Space p 198 ISBN 978 1 4528 2631 8 Union Pacific Railroad Company April 2 1868 Progress of the Union Pacific railroad west from Omaha Nebraska across the continent making with its connections an unbroken line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean Pamphlet ed 15 Vandewater Street L O C A Alvord p 5 This aid was given to two powerful companies viz to The Union Pacific Railroad Company building from Omaha on the Missouri river West and to The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California building from Sacramento East a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link Text taken from OCR may be corrupt Ceremony at Wedding of the Rails May 10 1869 at Promontory Point Utah World Digital Library May 10 1869 Retrieved July 20 2013 Solomon Brian 2000 Union Pacific Railroad Osceola WI MBI p 36 ISBN 978 0 7603 0756 4 Crawford Jay Boyd 1880 The Credit Mobilier of America Its Origin and History Boston C W Calkins amp Co p 101 Ripley William Zebina 1915 Railroads Finance and Organization New York Longmans Green amp Company pp 249 250 gould PNWC NRHS Oregon Washington Railroad amp Navigation Company Retrieved September 7 2018 Brian Solomon 2000 Union Pacific Railroad Voyageur Press pp 35 43 ISBN 9781610605595 Post Construction Union Pacific Archived from the original on September 8 2018 Retrieved September 7 2018 Pacific Fruit Express Company Forms Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 Lucin Cutoff Opens Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 M 10000 Streamliner Debuts Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 See also in the sidebar By 1936 Union Pacific s shiny new Streamliners had begun to attract passengers back to the railroad but the Depression was keeping passenger counts low Union Pacific Railroad invention still takes skiers to the top Union Pacific Railroad November 29 2010 Retrieved June 9 2017 Lund Morten 2000 An extraordinary history of Sun Valley Skiing Heritage Journal pp 20 25 UP Receives Its Last New Steam Locomotive Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 1980 mileage is from Moody s Transportation Manual 1981 the ICC s Transport Statistics says Union Pacific System operated 8 614 route miles at year end 1980 but the 1979 issue says 9 315 route miles and the 1981 says 9 096 so their 1980 figures look unlikely a b Mergers since 1980 Trains 76 11 31 November 2016 ProQuest 1820289392 Sidebar on Transcon Mergers article a b c d e ICC annual reports a b Moody s report Arbona Joe August 22 2007 Union Pacific Begins Construction of 90 Million State of the Art Intermodal Terminal in Southwest Bexar County San Antonio Texas Union Pacific Retrieved April 2 2015 Espinoza Raquel March 11 2009 Union Pacific Railroad Opens New San Antonio Intermodal Terminal San Antonio Texas Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2015 Rockin and Railroading at the Santa Teresa Intermodal Facility up com Union Pacific Retrieved October 6 2021 North America s Hump Yards Trains July 8 2006 Archived from the original on December 4 2008 Retrieved January 13 2015 Theen Andrew December 3 2018 Proposal would move longtime N Portland rail yard develop waterfront property oregonlive Retrieved November 2 2019 West Colton Yard PDF Press release Union Pacific Archived from the original PDF on June 6 2019 Retrieved June 11 2019 Ziobro Paul April 18 2017 New CSX CEO Shakes up the Railroad Starting with Hump Yards Wall Street Journal Hump yards are very complicated and expensive and work when you re bringing things in from lots of directions The more you do preblocking the more you don t need the complexity solving machine that is a hump yard Service Henry J Cordes BH News Union Pacific sees outstanding results 1 year into efficiency push but workforce has been cut 13 North Platte Nebraska s Newspaper Retrieved October 26 2019 Brian Solomon 1981 Union Pacific Railroad Voyageur Press p 91 ISBN 9781610605595 Union Pacific Bulletin UPRR 1950 p 13 NEW DRESS FOR SPRING in 1934 Since that time all streamliner passenger equipment has been painted the Yellow is widely used where high visibility is desired as a safety feature Union Pacific engineers claim that use of yellow on U P trains will further reduce the incidence of grade crossing accidents especially at night Nighttime visibility is increased still more by use of red reflection Union Welsh Joe Union Pacific s Streamliners Voyageur Press p 59 ISBN 978 1 61673 115 1 Strack Don August 25 2015 Armour Yellow on Union Pacific utahrails net Retrieved June 23 2022 Guss Chris March 2018 Perfecting a unified look Trains 78 3 14 ProQuest 1988415135 Denver amp Rio Grande Western Colors Again Ride the Rails Press release Union Pacific Railroad June 19 2006 Retrieved April 20 2010 November 8 Jim Wrinn 2019 Union Pacific donates SD70ACe No 4141 to George H W Bush Presidential Library Big Boy 4014 joins celebration Trains Magazine TrainsMag com Retrieved November 8 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Union Pacific Donates George H W Bush Engine 4141 To The Bush Library And Museum wtaw com Archived from the original on November 9 2019 Retrieved November 9 2019 Union Pacific Railroad Unveils No 2010 Boy Scouts of America Commemorative Locomotive Press release Union Pacific Railroad March 31 2010 Retrieved April 20 2010 Union Pacific Railroad Unveils Its Pink Ribbon Locomotive Press release Union Pacific Railroad September 28 2010 Retrieved May 12 2012 UP unveils Powered by our People special paint scheme Trains Magazine We Are ONE Commemorative Locomotive Debuts Union Pacific May 27 2021 Retrieved April 15 2022 Bogdanich Walt Nordberg Jenny January 23 2005 Highway Agency Disavows Claims by Rail Safety Group The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved June 23 2022 Trains Locomotive 2013 Train Pride Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 Today Union Pacific operates the largest diesel electric fleet in the United States UP Steam Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 E 9 Streamliners Union Pacific Retrieved September 7 2018 New Ultra Low Emission Locomotive Goes to Work in Union Pacific s Los Angeles Basin Rail Yards Union Pacific Retrieved January 19 2017 Guss Chris August 2018 Few flowers for gensets Trains 78 8 18 19 ProQuest 2056018178 Executive Profiles www up com Retrieved March 21 2020 Union Pacific Fortune Retrieved November 18 2018 Parker Garrett August 20 2019 The 20 Worst Companies to Work For in 2019 Money Inc Retrieved February 13 2020 Lassen David July 22 2020 STB filings detail Metra UP disagreement updated Trains Magazine Retrieved July 29 2020 Metra History Metra August 10 2018 Retrieved August 10 2018 See Solomon Brian Railroad Color History Union Pacific Railroad p 72 photo of last westbound City of Los Angeles taken at Las Vegas on May 2 1971 MBI Publishing 2000 Scenic route to be taken by Amtrak Eugene Register Guard March 17 1983 Retrieved September 12 2010 dead link Alicia Ebaugh Journal staff writer Derailment cuts traffic in Sergeant Bluff Sioux City Journal Retrieved October 29 2015 NTSB Why didn t train wait before Oklahoma crash The Washington Times June 26 2012 Retrieved July 19 2012 Train engineer s vision problems led to deadly Oklahoma wreck NTSB rules Oklahoman com June 18 2013 Retrieved November 2 2019 NTSB Launches Go Team to Missouri to Investigate Collision Between Two Freight Trains That Partially Collapsed a Highway Overpass National Transportation Safety Board Retrieved May 26 2013 Hendricks Christy NTSB investigating after train collision overpass collapse in Scott County KFVS12 Archived from the original on December 1 2017 Retrieved May 26 2013 HQ 2013 13 Finalized FRA Archived from the original on April 6 2016 Retrieved 2016 03 27 Local News Releases Archived from the original on April 12 2016 Retrieved March 27 2016 Reyes Velarde Alejandra Lin II Rong Gong November 1 2018 A San Andreas fault mystery The slow moving disaster in an area where the Big One is feared Los Angeles Times Andrews Robin George November 9 2018 A bubbling pool of mud is on the move and no one knows why National Geographic Francuch Dean G Deane Travis Zamora Carol 2019 The meandering Mundo Mud Pot Or how Salton Sea tectonics affect international trade Proceedings of the 70th Highway Geology Symposium 439 456 Union Pacific train with liquefied gas derails in Portland Associated Press September 7 2019 Retrieved September 9 2019 Union Pacific train derails in Portland s Albina Yard cracks support beam of overpass Fox 12 Oregon September 7 2019 Retrieved September 9 2019 Young Molly September 8 2019 Swan Island traffic could be backed up for months after train slams into vital Going Street bridge The Oregonian Retrieved September 9 2019 a b Theen Andrew September 25 2019 Portland approves 1 million repair contract for Going Street bridge smashed by train oregonlive Retrieved October 16 2019 Oregonian OregonLive Rosemarie Stein The November 14 2019 Portland metro Thursday traffic PBOT gets a fourth lane open on Going Street Bridge oregonlive Retrieved January 6 2020 Union Pacific identifies broken rail as cause of Portland train derailment crash into columns Fox 12 Oregon September 9 2019 Retrieved September 10 2019 Sorenson Saundra Three Car Derailment in North Portland Signals Ongoing Safety Concerns The Skanner News Retrieved October 14 2020 Freight train derails in Colton KTLA March 21 2022 Retrieved March 22 2022 Chlorine Rail Car Incident PDF Aristatek Retrieved April 18 2010 a b c Nordberg Jenny Bogdanich Walt November 17 2004 Regulators Plan to Step Up Union Pacific Safety Checks The New York Times NTSB Remarks by Robert L Sumwalt National Transportation Safety Board Retrieved April 19 2010 Man Killed in Fifth Train Derailment in San Antonio Since May The New York Times November 11 2004 Retrieved April 18 2010 a b c Bogdanich Walt March 19 2005 Texas Has Pact With Railroad To Move Lines The New York Times Train derailment leaves big mess pro8news Archived from the original on March 8 2010 Retrieved April 18 2010 Train derails near New Braunfels San Antonio Express News Retrieved April 18 2010 permanent dead link Davila Vianna November 4 2009 UP train derails in Atascosa County San Antonio Express News Archived from the original on September 4 2012 Retrieved April 18 2010 Train derails near Schulenburg spills chemical The Victoria Advocate Retrieved April 15 2010 Schulenburg Train Derailment United States Environmental Protection Agency Retrieved April 18 2010 a b San Jose In tense meeting Union Pacific tells residents night horns will continue The Mercury News June 5 2019 Retrieved March 21 2020 San Jose homeless encampments cleared along Union Pacific railroad tracks The Mercury News December 14 2019 Retrieved March 21 2020 Webb Kat June 20 2022 New traffic signal left on red Logan claims Union Pacific trying to railroad them with perpetual fees The Herald Journal Retrieved June 25 2022 Utah lawmakers Union Pacific make nice Bill to force clean switchers put on hold Deseret News March 1 2022 Retrieved June 25 2022 Utah bill aimed at Union Pacific switch engines placed on hold Trains March 2 2022 Retrieved June 25 2022 Union Pacific Railyard Cleanup Eugene Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Archived from the original on May 26 2008 Retrieved March 29 2009 Union Pacific Tests Exhaust Catalyst on Locomotives Environmental Leader January 18 2007 Archived from the original on October 9 2008 Retrieved May 8 2008 BioAge Media Green Car Congress DOT Secretary Commends Union Pacifics Conservation Program Says US Needs to Go on Energy Diet greencarcongress com Retrieved October 29 2015 Portland Man Pleads Guilty to Clean Water Act Violation for Discharging Oil Into Willamette River Department of Justice U S Attorney s Office August 5 2019 Retrieved November 4 2019 Bernstein Maxine June 24 2019 Union Pacific plant operator allowed thousands of gallons of oil to spill into Willamette River feds say oregonlive Retrieved November 2 2019 Bernstein Maxine October 28 2019 Former Union Pacific plant officer who allowed gallons of oil to seep into Willamette River gets probation oregonlive Retrieved November 2 2019 Ex railroad plant operator who allowed oil spill sentenced AP NEWS October 29 2019 Retrieved November 2 2019 Richard Burgess February 5 2016 Landowners sue to get Lafayette railroad yard cleaned up concerned about contamination of aquifer Potential threat to Chicot Aquifer cited The Advocate Retrieved November 9 2021 Erin Douglas September 19 2020 Residents sue Union Pacific others over cancer deaths NewsBank Houston Chronicle Retrieved November 9 2021 Sara Willa Ernst February 3 2021 We Know What We Want 5th Ward Residents Demand Action After Another Confirmed Cancer Cluster Houston PBS Retrieved November 9 2021 EMP Domestic Container Program Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved 2015 01 02 Domestic Equipment EMP NS Services Intermodal Shipping Options Norfolk Southern Archived from the original on July 11 2016 Retrieved January 2 2015 CPR Increases Intermodal Options Through the EMP Container Program Archived from the original on August 1 2016 Retrieved 2015 01 02 Museum History UPRR Museum Retrieved September 7 2018 U P History and Photos Retrieved April 2 2017 UPRR Museum Retrieved April 2 2017 Further reading EditAmbrose Stephen E 2000 Nothing Like It In The World The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863 1869 Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 684 84609 5 Athearn Robert G 1971 Union Pacific Country Reprinted ed Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ISBN 978 0803208582 covers impact of the railroad on the region it served from the 1860s to the 1890s Cahill Marie Piade Lynne eds 1994 The history of the Union Pacific America s great transcontinental railroad New York Smithmark ISBN 9780831737993 heavily illustrated Collins Ryan Michael 2011 Irish Gandy Dancer A Tale of Building the Transcontinental Railroad Charleston S C Createspace ISBN 9781452826318 Cooper Bruce C ed 2004 Riding the Transcontinental Rails Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865 1881 Philadelphia Polyglot Press ISBN 978 1 4115 9993 2 Galloway John Debo 1989 The first transcontinental railroad Central Pacific Union Pacific New York Dorset Press ISBN 9780880294096 Kelly John 2009 Union Pacific Railroad passenger trains of the city fleet photo archive Hudson Wis Iconografix ISBN 978 1 58388 236 8 Klein Maury 2006 1989 Union Pacific Volume 1 1862 1893 Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press ISBN 9780816696635 the standard scholarly history Klein Maury 2006 1989 Union Pacific Volume II 1894 1969 Minneapolis Minnesota University of Minnesota Press ISBN 978 0 8166 4460 5 Klein Maury 2011 Union Pacific the reconfiguration America s greatest railroad from 1969 to the present New York Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199708581 Mitchell Thomas Warner August 1907 The Growth of the Union Pacific and Its Financial Operations The Quarterly Journal of Economics 21 4 569 612 doi 10 2307 1883588 JSTOR 1883588 Perry John D Wright William Wierman LeConte John Lawrence 1868 Letter of John D Perry President of the Union Pacific Railway Eastern Union Pacific Railway Reports Showing the Necessity and Advantages of its Construction to the Pacific By Union Pacific Railway Eastern Division President Philadelphia Review Printing House Retrieved February 19 2011 White Richard 2011 Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America W W Norton amp Company ISBN 978 0 393 06126 0 Winchester Clarence ed 1936 North American Railroads Railway Wonders of the World pp 1533 1542 OCLC 580319 illustrated account of the Union Pacific and other North American RailroadsExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Union Pacific Railroad Official website Business data for Union Pacific GoogleSEC filingsYahoo Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Union Pacific Railroad amp oldid 1142407592, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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