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Union Pacific Railroad

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American railroad chartered by the United States Congress in 1862 to build the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad. Its track met the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, on 10 May 1869, joining the American rail network coast to coast for the first time. It remains one of the largest freight railroads in North America. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Founded Year
1862 1
Significance
Built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad in North America, completed in 1869; the company remains a major freight operator, running roughly 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles of route across 23 U.S. states. 1
Headquarters
Omaha, Nebraska 1
Connections

Exemplifies

Common Carrier, Concepts

A federally chartered land-grant railroad, the classic American common carrier

Long-Form Articles

The race to Promontory: how Union Pacific built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad, Articles

Operates

Alameda Corridor, Infrastructure
Source Wikipedia: Alameda Corridor
Bailey Yard, Infrastructure
First Transcontinental Railroad, Infrastructure

Union Pacific built the eastern half, from Council Bluffs, and is this atlas's existing network entity for the line; the Central Pacific, its westward-building partner, has no live network entity on this atlas yet, a gap left for a future wave rather than invented here.

Source Wikipedia: First Transcontinental Railroad
In the Other Atlases

Located In

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is located.

Source Wikipedia: Union Pacific RailroadLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2
Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Union Pacific is the second-largest railroad in the United States after BNSF.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Union Pacific Railroad
Wikipedia
  • Overview
  • History / Lead section
    the first transcontinental railroad in North America ... operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states
  • Infobox, headquarters
    Union Pacific Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
  • Part Of: Rail Transport
  • In Group: North American Railroads, Lead sentence
    The Union Pacific Railroad Company (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.
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Wikipedia: First Transcontinental Railroad
WikipediaOperates: First Transcontinental Railroad, Lead sectionView the Source
Wikipedia: Alameda Corridor
WikipediaOperates: Alameda Corridor, Infobox: operator
Quote, Operates: Alameda Corridor, Infobox: operator
BNSF, Union Pacific, Pacific Harbor Line
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