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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.
From 1873 to 1881 the Texas and Pacific built a total of 972 miles (1,560 km) of track; as a result it was entitled to land grants totalling 12,441,600 acres (50,349 km 2). T&P, however, received land only for the construction of track east of Fort Worth .
The line is primarily used for freight by the Union Pacific. BNSF shares ownership of the Lafayette Subdivision. [6] By 2007, 45 trains daily were operating through Maricopa, Arizona. [5] The Amtrak Sunset Limited operates three round-trips weekly over the entirety of the route with the Texas Eagle attached between San Antonio and Los Angeles.
Texas and Pacific Railway: Southern Pacific Terminal Company: SP: 1901 1962 Southern Pacific Company: Southern Pacific Transportation Company: SP SP 1969 1998 Union Pacific Railroad: Southern Trans-Continental Railway: MP: 1870 1872 Texas Pacific Railroad: Southwestern Railroad: SW 1990 2007 N/A Southwestern Railway: 1907 1920 N/A Stamford and ...
This is a route-map template for the Del Rio Subdivision, a Union Pacific railway line in Texas.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The proposed right-of-way was owned by Union Pacific; UP sold the Greenville/Trenton segment to Rail-Tex and leased the rest. [2] [3] In 1999, DGNO leased an additional 89 miles (143 km) of track from Union Pacific and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).
The name Sunset Limited traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific subsidiary which was known as the Sunset Route as early as 1874. Most of the current route from New Orleans westward is now owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, which acquired Southern Pacific in
More recently, most of original Galveston, Houston and Henderson right-of-way running between the Island and Bayou cities has been a property of the Union Pacific Railroad known as the Galveston Subdivision. This legacy rail track is 47 miles long and lies just east of I-45 while running parallel to it.