The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern
An EMD FP7 leads the California Zephyr east through Altamont Pass in 1970
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California Zephyr pulled by Western Pacific locomotives through Feather River Canyon
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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…operators of the California Zephyr passenger line. In 1982, the Western Pacific was acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation and it was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad. The original Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) was established in 1862 to build the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad…
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.