The union Pacific Railroad (UP) is the largest railway company in the USA. Owner is to 100% those Union 
Pacific corporation (stock exchange contraction: UNP. Chairman of the union Pacific Railroad is since 1991
 Richard K. Davidson, manager is James R. Young. The union Pacific busy end of 2004 more than 48,000 
coworkers. The net of the union Pacific extends starting from Chicago and new Orleans over the entire 
west of the USA. Their today's expansion with a route network of nearly 33,000 miles (approx. 53,000 km) 
and altogether nearly 54.000 Total railway system the UP have miles (approx. 87,000 km) particularly by 
the assumption innumerably Course companies reaches. At the end of of 2004 had the union Pacific Railroad
 7.682 locomotives (excluding diesel locomotives) and 104,640 trucks as well as 7048 railway service vehicles.
 The truck existence divided itself as follows: bulk material car covers 37.504, 20,879 box cars, 19.431 open 
bulk material cars, 15.970 trucks (Gondola) and 10.856 other trucks. History the union Pacific Railroad became
 on resolution of congress of US on 1 July 1862 as U.S. Military Railroad based, in order to open the west of the
 USA. The first tracks became 1865 in Omaha in Federal State Nebraska shifts, the today's name was accepted. 
This very day the UP have their seat in Omaha. To 10. May 1869 met the UP with the cent ral Pacific Railroad 
moving close from California at the today's golden spike national Historic Site at the large salt lake in Utah. 
Later this distance took over the Utah cent ral Railroad and the Utah and Northern Railway. The latter had a 
branch line built by Ogden at the UP main route to the north for the border of the today's State of Idaho. By 
the new building of Nebenlinien the UP provided von Ogden entrance to the Pacific in haven country (Oregon). 1880 took over Uncle Pete, like the railway company are jokeful called, the Kansas As well as Pacific Railway had built, the ten years before a distance from Kansas town center after Denver the Denver Pacific, a subsidiary, those the connection from Denver to Cheyenne at the UP main route manufactured. About at this time the UP acquired some narrow-gauge railways in Colorado and possessed until 1893 even a standard gauge distance over new Mexico after Texas. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob a course of the UP out. The union Pacific was into a credit scandal of complicated and bankruptcy had to announce 1872 into the 1870ern. In the case of its reorganization on 24 January 1880 received it the designation union Pacific Railway. After a second bankruptcy in the year 1893 it received on 1 July 1897 again their original names back. Such smaller changes in the society designation were not unusual with US-American courses. Starting from 1901 controlled under its chairman E.H. Harriman reorganized UP the 
Southern Pacific Railroad, had however by resolution of the supreme Court in Years 1913 this status again 
give up. The UP was also owner of the Pacific Electric Railway, the one suburban traffic - predominant with 
Interurbans in south California operated. A part of these distances becomes today from the metropolitan 
railway from Los Angeles to Long Beach uses. On expansion course the union Pacific in the second half of the 
past century went. 1981 she took over the Western Pacific Railroad, which had its main route from Odgen to 
San Francisco/Oakland. Thus one had a second Pacific entrance. A substantial enlargement of the distance 
net brought those over name the twice as large Missouri Pacific Railroad in the year 1982. to 1995 
incorporated the UP Chicago and Northwestern Railway, from which it held 25 per cent of the shares already 
before however before. One year later was attached the large Southern Pacific Railroad including its daughter
 pc. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) the Omaha Empire. The FR 1988 were taken over by the Denver 
and Rio Grande Western Railroad, which accepted the name of the new society as Southern Pacific LINEs. 
Admit became the UP by their yellow colour (armour yellow) of the locomotives and passenger vehicles 
(until 1971) zierte. UP delivered the long-distance passenger traffic 1971 at Amtrak. In the region Chicago 
drives the union Pacific on behalf and on calculation of regional transport authority RTA however far 
Vorortzge. 

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