Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad
	System map (trackage rights in purple)
	Union Pacific Challenger #3985
Overview
Headquarters	1400 Douglas Street; Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Reporting mark	UP (road locomotives), UPY (yard locomotives), UPP (passenger railcars)
Locale	United States from Chicago, Illinois, and cities along the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast
Dates of operation	1862–present (legacy) First (original) 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);
Technical
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Other
Website	www.up.com

Union Pacific Railroad (or legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight-hauling railroad that has 8,500 locomotives. They have over 32,100 route-miles in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad system is the biggest in the United States. They are one of the world's biggest transportation companies.^[1]

Union Pacific Railroad Media

The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University
The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill (1881)
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.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Railroads
The intermodal terminal just outside Santa Teresa, New Mexico, used for exchanging freight with trucks from Mexico
Union Pacific #9214, a GE Dash 8-40C, shows the standard UP diesel locomotive livery on May 10, 1991
GE AC4400CW UP #5645 in Battle Creek, Michigan, with the Flags and Flares paint scheme
GE ES44AC Union Pacific #5391, approaching bridge at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, shows the white-outlined blue "wings" on the nose.
GE AC4400CW Union Pacific #6419, in Checotah, Oklahoma, with the Flags and Flares paint scheme leads a train on June 26, 2021
A former Southern Pacific GP38-2 locomotive renumbered with UP "patch" markings