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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.
J.R. Davis Yard looking southwest, c. 2019 J.R. Davis Yard is a railway hump yard in Roseville, California owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.It is located along the confluence of three of the railroad's lines: the Martinez Subdivision heading southwest to the Sacramento Valley, the Roseville Subdivision which runs over the Sierra Nevada Mountains into Nevada, and the Valley Subdivision which ...
Union Pacific no longer provided a specific timeline for full completion of the second track, though. [28] As of 2015, the double-tracking project reached 80% completion. [20] In 2024, Union Pacific announced the resumption of work to add the second main line on the remaining 127 miles (204 km) of single-track railway. [29] [30]
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Union Pacific completed the corporate spin-off of Union Pacific Resources, its hydrocarbon exploration subsidiary, in 1996. [16] [17] Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources in 2000 for $4.4 billion in stock. [18] [19] [20]
The line was largely built by the Southern Pacific Railway in the late 1800s. The tracks between Sacramento and Lathrop run on the route of the original Central Pacific Railroad . The branch line from Lathrop reached Goshen in August 1872, Delano in July the following year, and had extended past Bakersfield to Caliente in 1875. [ 6 ]
It is the longest tunnel along the Union Pacific Railroad Coast Line at 3,610 feet (1.10 km) in length and is wide enough to carry a single track. [3] The tunnel under the Cuesta Pass represents the highest point along the line at 1,323 feet (403 m) above sea level. [4] The tunnel was constructed between 1893 and 1894 by the Southern Pacific ...
The Albert Lea Subdivision or Albert Lea Sub is a railway line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Minnesota and Iowa.It runs from Hoffman Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota south to Mason City, Iowa, and is a segment of the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad "Spine Line" which ran from the Twin Cities to Kansas City, Missouri.