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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 ...
The route was established in 1875 when the Southern Pacific Railroad built the line from its San Pedro Branch to Anaheim. [2] It was extended to Santa Ana in 1877. [3] The Santa Ana and Newport Railway opened an independent line between Santa Ana and Newport Beach in 1898, which was absorbed into the Southern Pacific the following year. [4]
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 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 ]
In 1901, Southern Pacific Company proposed building a long tunnel via a new alignment to both lower the track elevation and cut several miles off of the Donner Pass route. [3] Bores with lengths up to 18 miles (29 km) in length were reportedly considered, but an option for a 5-mile-long (8.0 km) tunnel route was under consideration as late as 1912.
Southern Pacific undertook double-tracking large portions of the route starting in 1909. [4] [5] The track through Tunnel Number 6 at the summit was mothballed (though not formally abandoned) in 1993. [6] Between 2002 and 2005, the right of way was depressed into a trench through Reno to eliminate the 11 level crossings in the downtown area. [7]
The Albina Yard is a 200-acre (81 ha) rail yard located in the Albina District of Portland, Oregon, currently operated by the Union Pacific Railroad. [1] One of several yards operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in Portland, as of year 2000 the Albina yard processes an average of 1,200 rail cars a day. [2]: 70