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Name: Fans Of Union Pacific
Address: Omaha, NE, 68179, US
Telephone: UP Main Number: 402-544-5000 UP Operator: 888-870-8777

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UP, we are a strong Fortune 300 company united with amazing members over a span of 150 years! This i

The original company, prior to later uniting with the Central Pacific Railroad, was incorporated on July 1, 1862 under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. It was constructed westwardly f

rom Council Bluffs to meet the Central Pacific line, which was constructed eastwardly from San Francisco Bay. The line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War. The two lines were joined together at Promontory Summit, Utah, fifty-three miles west of Ogden on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. 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. Subsequently, UP took over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road extending south from Ogden, Utah, 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; and it built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver and to Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest. It acquired the Kansas Pacific (originally called the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, though in essence a separate railroad). It also owned narrow gauge trackage into the heart of the Colorado Rockies and a standard gauge line south from Denver across New Mexico into Texas (both parts of the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway).

01/11/2025

Big Boy!

11/15/2021

10/28/2021

Phew that's a lot.

10/24/2021

Pictures from BFI & KSFO.

10/24/2021

Riders on the storm... my buddy Justin flying in on UA 5672 SFO - ONT

04/27/2019

Good article

'Curvo' the Transcontinental Railroad's mainline challenge in Utah

04/14/2019

Great shot!

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