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  2. Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. File:Union Pacific Railroad system map.svg - Wikipedia

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    This is a map of the Union Pacific Railroad as of 2008, with trackage rights in purple (the special Chicago-Kansas City intermodal trackage rights are lighter). Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see any errors.

  4. Sunset Route - Wikipedia

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    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. [24] [25] The new trackage would incorporate concrete sleeper railroad ties, a track spacing of 20 feet (6 m), and a rail weight of 141 pounds per yard (70 kg/m). It would support speeds of 70 miles ...

  5. Central Corridor (Union Pacific Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Tehachapi Loop - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...

  8. Niles Subdivision - Wikipedia

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    The line largely consists of the original Western Pacific East Bay main line between Oakland and Niles. The line between Newark and Fremont was originally laid out by the South Pacific Coast Railroad. The line features a street running section along Embarcadero in Oakland. [2]

  9. Tracklaying race of 1869 - Wikipedia

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    In July 1866, the Pacific Railway Act was amended, authorizing the Central Pacific (CP) to build east until it met the line being constructed by the Union Pacific (UP). [4] The amount of land and money each railroad would be granted was proportional to the number of miles of track laid, causing the two railroads to start building in earnest. [5]

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