The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910
Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898
The former Rock Island Depot at Chillicothe, Illinois, now a railroad museum
Aerotrain advertisement
Union Pacific Railroad
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is th
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…another order, this time for Pullman-built bilevel cars arrived to further supplement the fleet. To provide the power for these cars, several former Union Pacific EMD E8 and EMD E9 diesels were also rebuilt with head end power and added to the commuter pool. The commuter service was not exempt from the general…
UP #2723, a GE ET44AC, leading an intermodal train eastbound near inland California.
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.