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Additional Information from
Internet Encyclopedia
The Union Pacific Railroad
(reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I 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 a duopoly on
transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern and West South
Central United States.
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 Company is the principal operating company of the Union
Pacific Corporation, which are both headquartered at the Union Pacific Center,
in Omaha, Nebraska.
