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The Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops Facility was a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) shop for the trains of the Union Pacific located at North 9th and Webster in Downtown Omaha. With the first locomotives arriving in 1865, [ 1 ] it took until the 1950s for the facility to become the major overhaul and maintenance facility for the railroad.
The dispatch center is located at 850 Jones Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and is built inside an old Union Pacific freight depot that was built in 1891 and sold in 1897. The building was redeveloped in the 1990s with a bunker made of 18-24 inch steel reinforced concrete [ 2 ] that is designed to withstand a direct tornado strike.
The Burlington Headquarters Building, also called Burlington Place, is located at 1004 Farnam Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. This four-story brick building was originally designed by Alfred R. Dufrene and built in 1879 next to Jobbers Canyon. It was redesigned by noted Omaha architect Thomas R. Kimball in 1899, and vacated by the railroad ...
But railroads declined with the rise of the automobile and trucking. The Omaha's business faltered in the 1930s during the Great Depression and passenger service stopped in the 1950s. In 1957, despite resistance from the Hudson community, the Omaha line closed the shops in Hudson, consolidating maintenance to their other shop in Clinton, Iowa. [2]
The Farnam Hotel is a 255 ft (78 m), 15-story skyscraper at the corner of South 13th and Farnam Streets in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States. [2] It was built in 1990 as an office building and was formerly known as 1200 Landmark Center, [3] at one point housing the Omaha operations of Pacific Life. The hotel opened on May 20, 2021. [4]
Omaha is located in northwestern Gallatin County at (37.889963, -88.303341 Illinois Route 1 passes through the village, leading north 7 miles (11 km) to Norris City and south 32 miles (51 km) to Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River.
The First National Bank Tower is an office skyscraper in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and the official headquarters of First National Bank of Omaha.Rising to 634 feet (193 m) and 45 stories, it is the tallest building in Omaha and the state; and has been since its completion, overtaking the 30-story WoodmenLife Tower located nearby.
Illinois Center is a mixed-use urban development in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA, lying east of Michigan Avenue. It is notable in that the streets running through it have three levels. Elsewhere in Chicago, some streets have two levels, with the lower level for through traffic and service vehicles and the upper level for other local traffic ...