UP History Fact
Oct. 25, 1848 – The Chicago & Northwest ran the first train west of Chicago.
UP History Fact
Oct. 27, 1866 – Union Pacific's westward track construction reached the 100th meridian.
UP History Fact
Nov. 1, 1897 – E. H. Harriman and an investor group purchased Union Pacific Railroad at a receivership auction at Omaha's UP freight House, now the Harriman Dispatching Center.
UP History Fact
Nov. 1, 1909 – The final spike was driven near Keddie, Calif., to complete the Western Pacific Railroad.
UP History Fact
Nov. 5, 1904 – Construction began on the Chico Electric Railroad in Chico, Calif. – eventually becoming the north end of the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
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Side note: Sacramento Northern was part of the Western Pacific system.
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LCJ
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UP History Fact
Nov. 8, 1978 – Western Pacific's car ferry, M.V. Las Plumas, retired from service on the San Francisco Bay.
UP History Fact
Nov. 10, 1884 – The Oregon Short Line was completed to Huntington, Ore., connecting the UP main line at Granger, Wyo., to the Pacific Northwest via the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company.
UP History Fact
Nov. 17, 1879 – Railroad magnate Jay Gould purchased controlling interest in Missouri Pacific and soon after had controlling interest in the Texas and Pacific Railway.
UP History Fact
Nov. 19, 2005 – The first train ran through the Reno, Nev., "trench" that eliminated 11 crossings in the downtown casino area.
UP History Fact
November 1831 – U.S. mail was carried for the first time by rail.
UP History Fact
Nov. 30, 1956 – No. 4211 was the last cab-forward to pull revenue freight, running from Oakland to Roseville.
UP History Fact
Dec. 1, 1937 – The last train of the Hobart Southern Railroad operated between Truckee and Hobart Mills, Calif.
UP History Fact
December 1944 – The last steam locomotive was built for Union Pacific, No. 844. Based in Cheyenne, Wyo., No. 844 and No. 3985 are UP's two remaining steam locomotives.
UP History Fact
Dec. 7, 1906 – The Pacific Fruit Express company was formed in joint ownership with Union Pacific.
UP History Fact
Dec. 9, 1852 -- The first train to operate west of the Mississippi River made a five-mile run on the Pacific Railroad from St. Louis to Cheltenham, Mo.
UP History Fact
Dec. 11, 1867 – Union Pacific's westward track construction reached Pine Bluff, Wyo.
UP History Fact
Dec. 15, 1947 – This was the last day of trolley operation on the Sacramento Northern Railroad in Chico, Calif.
UP History Fact
Dec. 21, 1936 – Union Pacific opened a ski resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, the first western ski resort in the United States. The resort also featured the first ski chair lift, which was invented by railroad personnel in Omaha.
UP History Fact
December 1872 – The 2.8 miles of track crossing the Missouri River from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Omaha, Neb., was completed.
UP History Fact
Dec. 31, 1944 – Employment on the Southern Pacific and its subsidiary companies hit an all-time high of 112,400.
UP History Fact
Jan. 1, 1949 – Blizzards struck Nebraska and Wyoming, closing Union Pacific's main line for seven weeks, the longest closure in the road's history.
UP History Fact
Jan. 1, 1996 – Interstate Commerce Commission activities were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board under the U.S. Department of Transportation.
UP History Fact
Jan. 8, 1863 – The first spike of the Central Pacific Railroad was driven on the Sacramento waterfront.
UP History Fact
Jan. 10, 1874 – A Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) train crosses the first bridge over the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo.
UP History Fact
Jan. 12, 1883 – The first direct rail route from California to New Orleans opened.
UP History Fact
Jan. 12, 1883 – A silver spike was driven just west of the Pecos River in West Texas, marking the completion of a new transcontinental route across Texas.
UP Fact:
He was the first Mayor of Chicago, later became the first President of the Galena and Chicago Union (later CNW), and finally the first President of the Union Pacific, William Butler Ogden.
UP History Fact
Jan 13-19, 1952 – City of San Francisco, Train No. 101, was snowbound on Donner Pass near Crystal Lake, Calif., attracting national news coverage.
UP History Fact
Jan. 22, 1986 – Construction began at Long Beach, Calif., on the Southern Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, one of the largest container-handling operations in the world.
UP History Fact
Jan. 24, 1880 – The Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railroads were added to Union Pacific.
UP History Fact
Jan. 24, 1951 – The Parsons, Kan., shop overhauled its final Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) steam locomotive
UP History Fact
Jan. 30, 1969 – Union Pacific Corporation was established as a holding company with Union Pacific Railroad as one of its operating companies.
Golden Arm's
UP History Fact:
The "We Will Deliver" slogan was based on a mission statement by Ron Burns during his tenure as CEO of Union Pacific Railroad, from August 1995 to November 1996. The slogan was first used on a group of new covered hoppers delivered in early 1996, and first appeared on repainted locomotives coming out of North Little Rock in April 1996. On freight cars, the slogan included either three ending periods (known as an "ellipsis") or a single ending period. On the locomotive fleet, the slogan did not include an ending period.
Union Pacific "BOLDLY" chose the slogan, in 1995, although they WISELY didn't say when the delivery would occur, nor to whom.........
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UP History Fact
Feb. 1, 1858 – In order to comply with the charter organizaing what would become the Texas & Pacific Railway that said "service" had to begin by this date, the road pulled its first train with oxen since its locomotive had not yet arrived.
UP History Fact
Feb. 5, 1877 – The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company (GH&SA) reached San Antonio, four years after rail construction began west of Columbus.
UP History Fact
Feb. 9, 1916 – Bill Carlisle, known as the "gentlemen bandit," held up the passengers on Union Pacific's Portland Rose train as it passed through a raging blizzard between Green River and Rock Springs, Wyo. The gentlemen bandit, always refusing money from women and children, jumped from the train and disappeared into the snowstorm with a booty of $52.35.
UP History Fact
Chartered on Feb. 11, 1850, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company was the first railroad to begin operating in Texas, the first part of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to begin operating, and the second railroad west of the Mississippi River.
UP History Fact
Feb. 14, 2006 – The last train ran through Marysville, Kan., as a new 4-mile bypass around the community opened to traffic.
UP History Fact
Feb. 22, 1856 – The Sacramento Valley Railroad completed a 23-mile line from Sacramento to Folsom, Calif.
UP History Fact
Feb. 26, 1928 – The first train passed through the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel west of Denver.
UP History Fact
March 3, 1871 – The Texas and Pacific Railway Company incorporated to build a line from east of Marshall, Texas, to El Paso and on to San Diego, Calif.
UP History Fact
March 5, 1917 – The Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads reorganized and merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
UP History Fact
The Corn King Limited, Chicago and North Western's top Omaha-Chicago overnight train, was in operation from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
UP History Fact
March 17, 1884 – The Southern Pacific Company was created.
UP History Fact
March 19, 1949 – The California Zephyr was inaugurated on San Francisco's Waterfront.
UP History Fact
March 21, 1937 – The Daylight passenger train was christened in Los Angeles by film star Olivia DeHaviland, inaugurating Southern Pacific’s spectacular red, orange and black color scheme. The train soon was dubbed "The Most Beautiful Train in the World."
UP History Fact
March 22, 1970 – Western Pacific's California Zephyr vista dome passenger train made its last run.
UP History Fact
March 27, 1942 – The new Southern Pacific main line opened around California's Shasta Dam project.
April 7, 1955 – Missouri Pacific retired its last steam locomotive.
UP History Fact
April 10, 1965 – The final Sacramento Northern electrified train operated at Marysville, Calif.
UP History Fact
April 14, 1887 – The General Time Convention, a predecessor of the Association of American Railroads, adopted the first standard code of train rules.
UP History Fact
April 26, 1854 – The Central Pacific Railroad, predecessor of the former Southern Pacific, opened its first section of track from Sacramento to Roseville, Calif.
UP History Fact
May 4, 1953 - Texas & New Orleans initiates trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC) service between Houston and on-line Louisiana cities, the first intermodal service on the Southern Pacific system.
UP History Fact
May 10 marks the anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike, linking the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory, Utah, in 1869.
UP History Fact
May 12, 1953 – The 40-mile-long No. 3 track over Wyoming's Sherman Hill opened.
UP History Fact
May 17, 1851 – The first rail on what would become the Southern Pacific system is staked out on Buffalo Bayou, near Houston.
UP History Fact
May 21, 1877 – Tests at Altoona, Pa., marked the first use of telephone communication for railroad purposes.
Oct. 25, 1848 – The Chicago & Northwest ran the first train west of Chicago.
UP History Fact
Oct. 27, 1866 – Union Pacific's westward track construction reached the 100th meridian.
UP History Fact
Nov. 1, 1897 – E. H. Harriman and an investor group purchased Union Pacific Railroad at a receivership auction at Omaha's UP freight House, now the Harriman Dispatching Center.
UP History Fact
Nov. 1, 1909 – The final spike was driven near Keddie, Calif., to complete the Western Pacific Railroad.
UP History Fact
Nov. 5, 1904 – Construction began on the Chico Electric Railroad in Chico, Calif. – eventually becoming the north end of the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
--------------------------------
Side note: Sacramento Northern was part of the Western Pacific system.
_________________
LCJ
-------------------------------
UP History Fact
Nov. 8, 1978 – Western Pacific's car ferry, M.V. Las Plumas, retired from service on the San Francisco Bay.
UP History Fact
Nov. 10, 1884 – The Oregon Short Line was completed to Huntington, Ore., connecting the UP main line at Granger, Wyo., to the Pacific Northwest via the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company.
UP History Fact
Nov. 17, 1879 – Railroad magnate Jay Gould purchased controlling interest in Missouri Pacific and soon after had controlling interest in the Texas and Pacific Railway.
UP History Fact
Nov. 19, 2005 – The first train ran through the Reno, Nev., "trench" that eliminated 11 crossings in the downtown casino area.
UP History Fact
November 1831 – U.S. mail was carried for the first time by rail.
UP History Fact
Nov. 30, 1956 – No. 4211 was the last cab-forward to pull revenue freight, running from Oakland to Roseville.
UP History Fact
Dec. 1, 1937 – The last train of the Hobart Southern Railroad operated between Truckee and Hobart Mills, Calif.
UP History Fact
December 1944 – The last steam locomotive was built for Union Pacific, No. 844. Based in Cheyenne, Wyo., No. 844 and No. 3985 are UP's two remaining steam locomotives.
UP History Fact
Dec. 7, 1906 – The Pacific Fruit Express company was formed in joint ownership with Union Pacific.
UP History Fact
Dec. 9, 1852 -- The first train to operate west of the Mississippi River made a five-mile run on the Pacific Railroad from St. Louis to Cheltenham, Mo.
UP History Fact
Dec. 11, 1867 – Union Pacific's westward track construction reached Pine Bluff, Wyo.
UP History Fact
Dec. 15, 1947 – This was the last day of trolley operation on the Sacramento Northern Railroad in Chico, Calif.
UP History Fact
Dec. 21, 1936 – Union Pacific opened a ski resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, the first western ski resort in the United States. The resort also featured the first ski chair lift, which was invented by railroad personnel in Omaha.
UP History Fact
December 1872 – The 2.8 miles of track crossing the Missouri River from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Omaha, Neb., was completed.
UP History Fact
Dec. 31, 1944 – Employment on the Southern Pacific and its subsidiary companies hit an all-time high of 112,400.
UP History Fact
Jan. 1, 1949 – Blizzards struck Nebraska and Wyoming, closing Union Pacific's main line for seven weeks, the longest closure in the road's history.
UP History Fact
Jan. 1, 1996 – Interstate Commerce Commission activities were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board under the U.S. Department of Transportation.
UP History Fact
Jan. 8, 1863 – The first spike of the Central Pacific Railroad was driven on the Sacramento waterfront.
UP History Fact
Jan. 10, 1874 – A Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) train crosses the first bridge over the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo.
UP History Fact
Jan. 12, 1883 – The first direct rail route from California to New Orleans opened.
UP History Fact
Jan. 12, 1883 – A silver spike was driven just west of the Pecos River in West Texas, marking the completion of a new transcontinental route across Texas.
UP Fact:
He was the first Mayor of Chicago, later became the first President of the Galena and Chicago Union (later CNW), and finally the first President of the Union Pacific, William Butler Ogden.
UP History Fact
Jan 13-19, 1952 – City of San Francisco, Train No. 101, was snowbound on Donner Pass near Crystal Lake, Calif., attracting national news coverage.
UP History Fact
Jan. 22, 1986 – Construction began at Long Beach, Calif., on the Southern Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, one of the largest container-handling operations in the world.
UP History Fact
Jan. 24, 1880 – The Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railroads were added to Union Pacific.
UP History Fact
Jan. 24, 1951 – The Parsons, Kan., shop overhauled its final Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) steam locomotive
UP History Fact
Jan. 30, 1969 – Union Pacific Corporation was established as a holding company with Union Pacific Railroad as one of its operating companies.
Golden Arm's
UP History Fact:
The "We Will Deliver" slogan was based on a mission statement by Ron Burns during his tenure as CEO of Union Pacific Railroad, from August 1995 to November 1996. The slogan was first used on a group of new covered hoppers delivered in early 1996, and first appeared on repainted locomotives coming out of North Little Rock in April 1996. On freight cars, the slogan included either three ending periods (known as an "ellipsis") or a single ending period. On the locomotive fleet, the slogan did not include an ending period.
Union Pacific "BOLDLY" chose the slogan, in 1995, although they WISELY didn't say when the delivery would occur, nor to whom.........
-----------------------------
UP History Fact
Feb. 1, 1858 – In order to comply with the charter organizaing what would become the Texas & Pacific Railway that said "service" had to begin by this date, the road pulled its first train with oxen since its locomotive had not yet arrived.
UP History Fact
Feb. 5, 1877 – The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company (GH&SA) reached San Antonio, four years after rail construction began west of Columbus.
UP History Fact
Feb. 9, 1916 – Bill Carlisle, known as the "gentlemen bandit," held up the passengers on Union Pacific's Portland Rose train as it passed through a raging blizzard between Green River and Rock Springs, Wyo. The gentlemen bandit, always refusing money from women and children, jumped from the train and disappeared into the snowstorm with a booty of $52.35.
UP History Fact
Chartered on Feb. 11, 1850, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company was the first railroad to begin operating in Texas, the first part of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to begin operating, and the second railroad west of the Mississippi River.
UP History Fact
Feb. 14, 2006 – The last train ran through Marysville, Kan., as a new 4-mile bypass around the community opened to traffic.
UP History Fact
Feb. 22, 1856 – The Sacramento Valley Railroad completed a 23-mile line from Sacramento to Folsom, Calif.
UP History Fact
Feb. 26, 1928 – The first train passed through the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel west of Denver.
UP History Fact
March 3, 1871 – The Texas and Pacific Railway Company incorporated to build a line from east of Marshall, Texas, to El Paso and on to San Diego, Calif.
UP History Fact
March 5, 1917 – The Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads reorganized and merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
UP History Fact
The Corn King Limited, Chicago and North Western's top Omaha-Chicago overnight train, was in operation from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
UP History Fact
March 17, 1884 – The Southern Pacific Company was created.
UP History Fact
March 19, 1949 – The California Zephyr was inaugurated on San Francisco's Waterfront.
UP History Fact
March 21, 1937 – The Daylight passenger train was christened in Los Angeles by film star Olivia DeHaviland, inaugurating Southern Pacific’s spectacular red, orange and black color scheme. The train soon was dubbed "The Most Beautiful Train in the World."
UP History Fact
March 22, 1970 – Western Pacific's California Zephyr vista dome passenger train made its last run.
UP History Fact
March 27, 1942 – The new Southern Pacific main line opened around California's Shasta Dam project.
April 7, 1955 – Missouri Pacific retired its last steam locomotive.
UP History Fact
April 10, 1965 – The final Sacramento Northern electrified train operated at Marysville, Calif.
UP History Fact
April 14, 1887 – The General Time Convention, a predecessor of the Association of American Railroads, adopted the first standard code of train rules.
UP History Fact
April 26, 1854 – The Central Pacific Railroad, predecessor of the former Southern Pacific, opened its first section of track from Sacramento to Roseville, Calif.
UP History Fact
May 4, 1953 - Texas & New Orleans initiates trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC) service between Houston and on-line Louisiana cities, the first intermodal service on the Southern Pacific system.
UP History Fact
May 10 marks the anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike, linking the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory, Utah, in 1869.
UP History Fact
May 12, 1953 – The 40-mile-long No. 3 track over Wyoming's Sherman Hill opened.
UP History Fact
May 17, 1851 – The first rail on what would become the Southern Pacific system is staked out on Buffalo Bayou, near Houston.
UP History Fact
May 21, 1877 – Tests at Altoona, Pa., marked the first use of telephone communication for railroad purposes.
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