Union Pacific Railroad

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.

Union Pacific Railroad
System map (trackage rights in purple) General Electric ET44AH locomotive photographed in June 2016
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)
Track gauge
Length	32,100 miles (51,660 km)
Headquarters	1400 Douglas Street Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Website	www.up.com

Union Pacific Railroad Media

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  The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University

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  The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill (1881)

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  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.

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

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  Typical Union Pacific yard operation, Ogden, Utah. Photo by Evan Jennings, Oct. 2004.

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  Roseville rail yard.

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

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  UP locomotive GE AC4400CW #5645 in Battle Creek, Michigan, with the Flags and Flares paint scheme

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  Union Pacific #5391, approaching bridge at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, shows the white-outlined blue "wings" on the nose.

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  Union Pacific #6419, in Checotah, Oklahoma, with the Flags and Flares paint scheme leads a train on June 26, 2021

Other websites

• System map
• Photographs of the Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1868–69 Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
• Thousands of photographs from as early as 1860 taken by employees of the Union Pacific railroad
• Union Pacific Historical Society
• The Union Pacific Railroad "Building America"