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Built in 2005 for the Union Pacific Railroad, it was initially operated as UP 8423 until October 18, 2005, when it was unveiled at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. As the 4141, the locomotive was in active service until 2007–2008, when the 2007-2010 financial crisis forced the locomotive to be stored indefinitely in North ...
Built in Schenectady as Southern Pacific #5021. Donated 1956 and displayed in San Bernardino. Moved to the RailGiants museum in the 1970s. Union Pacific 9000 American Locomotive Company: 4-12-2, 9000 Class: 3/1926 Built as the first of the 9000 class in Dunkirk as Union Pacific #9000, with the cost of construction shared between the UP and ALCO.
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It was sold to Golden Wool Co. in 1972. Union Pacific reacquired the car in 1989, when it was rebuilt into a 36-seat dining car and named the City of Denver. [57] No. 4808 City of Los Angeles: was built in 1949 as 48-seat diner No. 4808. The car still retains its original configuration and was named the City of Los Angeles in 1991. [58]
Travel Town Museum is a railway museum dedicated on December 14, 1952, and located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park.The history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s is the primary focus of the museum's collection, with an emphasis on railroading in Southern California and the Los Angeles area.
Union Pacific maintains a fleet of low-emissions locomotives. Most are used in Los Angeles basin rail yards, to satisfy an air quality agreement with the local authorities. [57] [58] One of the 20 new 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW) "Green Goat" locomotives manufactured for Union Pacific's "Green" Fleet by Railpower Technologies
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 ...
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]