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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.
The Loop became the property of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996, when the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems merged. [12] Trains of the BNSF Railway also use the loop under trackage rights. [3] Although Southern Pacific ran passenger trains on the Loop for years, it banned passenger service there soon after handing its trains to ...
The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" [1] owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (reporting mark ATAX) that connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental mainlines of the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad that terminate near downtown Los Angeles, California. [2]
Union Pacific said Thursday that the result was an unanticipated 33% jump in the number of shipping containers filled with imports that it delivered in the third quarter, which helped drive a 6% ...
The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States. [1] The line was created after the merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company by combining portions of lines built by former competitors.
Thousands of boxes littering Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles attest to a wave of rail thefts that have taken place in recent months, and have worsened supply chain bottlenecks.
The Union Pacific Railway declared bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893, in part due to losses from the fraud and new competition, and went into government receivership. [3] In 1898, under a bankruptcy plan sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. , it emerged from the receivership under a new similarly named entity controlled by E. H. Harriman .
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]