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	Alcorn v. Union Pacific Railroad(2001) * Missouri
		Union Pacific also argues that, given the need to obtain state approval to install additional warning devices, the railroad could not have installed such devices before her accident on August 29, 1997; thus, the claimed breach of duty was not a proximate cause of her injuries.
		Union Pacific and Amtrak contend evidence of the prior accident and "near misses" at the County Road 501 crossing was not sufficiently similar to Alcorn's accident to meet the foundation for admissibility.
		Missouri Pacific is the predecessor to Union Pacific.
	www.claimrep.com /laws/cases/Mo/caseMoAlcorn.htm (10418 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It was reincorporated (1897) as the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Utah, and under the management of Edward H. Harriman the railroad was expanded, vastly improved, and stabilized.
		The Union Pacific acquired the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific RRs in 1982 and M-K-T RR in 1988.
		Today the railroad, with around 33,000 mi (53,000 km) of track in the West, Midwest, and Gulf Coast regions, is a subsidiary of the highly diversified Union Pacific Corporation; in 1999 the corporation split the railroad operation into three semiautonomous units (for the northern, southern, and western sections of the system).
	www.bartleby.com /65/un/UnionPac.html (575 words)

	Union Pacific says worker shortage cost it money [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers]
		FORT WORTH -- Union Pacific Railroad said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter results were hampered by a lack of enough workers, and it upped the number of workers it plans to hire in 2004 to as many as 3,200.
		Union Pacific has about 15,000 workers in Texas, of which 3,000 are in Tarrant County, most at the Centennial Yard west of downtown Fort Worth.
		Union Pacific and other railroads have drastically cut employment in the past 50 years, down to 227,000 at the end of 2002 from 1.2 million in 1955 and 548,000 in 1975.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/headline.asp?id=9222 (561 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Union Pacific Corporation (not the railroad itself) was located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania until 1997, when Richard K. Davidson announced that it was moving to Dallas in September of that year.
		Union Pacific Dallas Intermodal Terminal, a massive $80 million expansion of the railroads transportation hub outside of Dallas, Texas.
		Union Pacific #9214, a GE Dash 8-40C, shows the standard UP diesel locomotive livery on May 10, 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad (3320 words)

	Union Pacific -- the railroad established by Congress and Abraham Lincoln to span the continent
		Union Pacific -- the railroad established by Congress and Abraham Lincoln to span the continent - is in the middle of a very tough period.
		Union Pacific is testing several different high-tech grade crossing guards in an attempt to stop motorist who insist on driving around, or through, lowered gates and ignoring flashing lights and bells.
		Union Pacific and#45;and#45; the railroad established by Congress and Abraham Lincoln to span the continent
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/UnionPacific1.html (2043 words)

	PNWC-NRHS - Union Pacific Railroad in Oregon
		There was some reorganization of the Union Pacific lines in Washington as a result of the abandonment of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific in 1980.
		In 1996, the Union Pacific railroad took over the operations of the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in Oregon, resulting in that railroad company becoming the largest railroad in the state (as well as the country).
		Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest; Schwantes, Carlos A.; © 1993 by the University of Washington Press; Seattle and London.
	www.pnwc-nrhs.org /hs_union_pacific.html (844 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		The Union Pacific Railroad was the eastern segment of the first transcontinental railroad completed in 1869.
		The Union Pacific Railroad Company was authorized to begin construction from Omaha, Nebraska westward, while the Central Pacific, was to commence building at Sacramento, California and cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains heading eastward.
		From the time the Union Pacific began serious work in 1865, the company averaged over a mile a day, accomplished largely through the arduous labor of recently arrived Irish emigrants with picks, shovels and mule-drawn scrapers.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/u/UNIONPACIFICRAIL.html (812 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad
		In 1879 the Union Pacific struck an agreement with Villard to connect the rails of the ORandN with those of the Union Pacific transcontinental mainline at Granger, Wyoming.
		Union Pacific provided most of the financing to build the railroad through its Oregon Railway and Navigation Company subsidiary, and by 1906 the Columbia Southern was fully controlled by the parent company.
		The busiest years of the railroad were 1910 and 1911, when UP relied on the railroad to transport a lot of men and material on their way to help build the Des Chutes Railway, which was battling with the Oregon Trunk Railroad for control of the Deschutes River canyon.
	www.trainweb.org /highdesertrails/up.html (2546 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad Historical Museum
		For devoted railroad fans the museum boasts several miniature locomotives and an unusual collection of locomotive pictures taken when steam engines were the undisputed champions of railroad power.
		Union Pacific Railroad equipment improved steadily with the still continuing "age of modern miracles" and left behind many mementoes.
		And to ensure that the countless day-by-day activities of operating the first railroads are not bypassed, the museum has collected miscellaneous items for display, such as ticket punches, badges, telegraph keys, insulators, cable and other equipment, an old locomotive clock, train tickets and schedules, lanterns and many other articles of interest to the general public.
	www.historicomaha.com /upmusm.htm (1405 words)

	Green Car Congress: Union Pacific to Introduce 111 Low-Emissions and Hybrid Locomotives in Texas
		Union Pacific Railroad has announced a project to help reduce diesel emissions in Texas over the next 10 years by introducing 111 low-emission, fuel-efficient and hybrid locomotives for yard operations in Houston/Galveston, Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Antonio.
		Union Pacific will deploy the new locomotives by 2007 with 56 units in Houston, 46 units in Dallas/Ft. Worth and 9 units in san Antonio.
		Union Pacific Railroad recently announced 111 low-emissions, fuel-efficient and hybrid locomotives for yard operations in Houston/Galveston, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and San Antonio.
	www.greencarcongress.com /2005/10/union_pacific_t.html (578 words)

	The Crédit Mobilier - Union Pacific Railroad
		All the large stockholders in the Union Pacific were also stockholders in the Crédit Mobilier, and the Ames contract and its transfer to trustees, were ratified by the Union Pacific and received the assent of the great body of stockholders, but not of all.
		To sum up, it may be briefly stated that the Union Pacific and Crédit Mobilier together got the proceeds of liberal United States land grants, of donations of communities near the road, and the entire subsidy of Government bonds, as a clear profit.
		Brooks said, that as he was a Government director of the Union Pacific Road, and as the law provided such directors should not be stockholders in the company, he would not hold this stock, and directed Dr. Durant to transfer it to his son-in-law, Chas.
	cprr.org /Museum/Credit_Mobilier_1873.html (11851 words)

	Amazon.com: Union Pacific: Books: Maury Klein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His central thesis is that lack of strong leadership and internal bickering weakened the railroad's financial, organizational, and political capabilities to operate profitably, ultimately forcing Union Pacific into receivership in 1893.
		Railroad buffs will, no doubt, savor every morsel, but general readers will probably be surfeited long before the end of this very rich feast of information and commentary.
		Operating the railroad for the first 25 years after it was "completed" (it actually didn't stop adding track until well into the 20th Century; not until the 1990s if you count mergers) was at least as difficult and impressive as was building the initial road.
	www.amazon.com /Union-Pacific-Maury-Klein/dp/0385177283 (1055 words)

	Union Pacific Historical Society
		Founded in 1984, the Union Pacific Historical Society is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad from its beginning in 1862 to the operation as it is today.
		The Union Pacific Historical Society and Don Strack are proud to announce that they have collaborated to republish Dons Ogden Rails book of 1977 in a new and considerably expanded, redesigned format.
		The Carnegie Museum in Council Bluffs is the new location of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection that was last housed in the Western Heritage Museum (The original Union Station) in Omaha.
	www.uphs.org (639 words)

	Customer Successes: Union Pacific Railroad
		Union Pacific, founded 140 years ago, has become one of the oldest and most recognized corporations in America.
		Union Pacific is the largest railroad in North America, moving close to nine million carloads of materials each year, and covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the United States.
		With one click of a mouse, Union Pacific customers can now reserve a freight car, track the status of their order and handle all shipment transactions online, as well as view extensive public information on everything from railroad history to the latest news.
	www.mercury.com /nl/customers/successes/union-pacific-railroad.html (974 words)

	Levi O. Leonard Railroad Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leonard, former historian of the Union Pacific and Rock Island Railways, an honorarium of eighty dollars per month for one year "for classifying, indexing, and putting into proper shape for the students of history, a collection of printed and manuscript material, documents, newspaper clippings, etc., in the possession of Mr.
		Calvin, vice-president of the Union Pacific, he wrote numerous sketches on the organization and construction of the first transcontinental which were syndicated in the newspapers of Utah, Montana, and Idaho.
		Durant, the first vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific, and the first president of the Credit Mobilier of America, was considered to be the initial force behind the inception, organization, and construction of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/kolbet.htm (2884 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad
		The Union Pacific was chartered by Congress, through the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, to construct a portion of the first transcontinental line, starting in Omaha and proceeding westward through the Platte River Valley.
		The Union Pacific was forced into receivership during the depression of the 1890s, but was brought back to prominence by E.H. Harriman.
		Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum HOME MAP INDEX Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and Connections, circa 1867.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h868.html (368 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		The end of the Civil War brought a change of fortune for the Union Pacific.
		Like their Irish counterparts on the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific men had a staple diet of beef, bread, and fl coffee.
		As the railroad progressed westward, the phenomenon called Hell on Wheels followed in close pursuit -- saloons, gambling houses, and brothels opened their doors at the end-of-track towns that sprouted along the route, and prospered from the hard-earned cash of the Union Pacific laborers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_uprr.html (681 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad — Infoplease.com
		Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress to build part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad line.
		It was reincorporated (1897) as the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Utah, and under the management of Edward H. Harriman
		the railroad was expanded, vastly improved, and stabilized.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/bus/A0850045.html (600 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As one of the largest railroads in North America, Union Pacific Railroad moves mass commodities throughout the western two-thirds of the United States, covering more than 36,000 miles of track.
		As Union Pacific's data warehousing and information solution needs have developed, changed, and grown, Teradata solutions have kept pace right along with the company.
		Response time on processing large amounts of data-just one of Union Pacific's tables is 167 gigabytes, with 900 million rows of data-has been phenomenal, the company says.
	www.teradata.com /t/go.aspx?id=87830 (368 words)

	CNN.com - Union Pacific: Runaway train derail plan failed - Jun. 23, 2003
		Runaway freight cars that overturned and dumped tons of lumber in a Los Angeles suburb were expected to derail 4 miles past the community, but their speed and weight caused them to jump the tracks early, a Union Pacific official said.
		Some residents and city officials have complained that Union Pacific should have notified them of the plan in advance, but railroad officials said time was too short.
		Railroad and city officials were expected to field questions about the accident at Monday's City Council meeting.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/06/23/train.derail.ap/index.html (484 words)

	MPHS - MoPac History: Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad
		The Central Branch Union Pacific (later Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific) Railroad covered north central Kansas, pushed northwest into Nebraska in hopes of connecting to the Union Pacific RR and moved west toward Denver.
		The Union Pacific was to head west and open a passage to the West and California.
		And the new frontier railroad would grow, as newly formed counties and towns were built from the sod the company had income to pay for its expansion.
	www.mopac.org /history_cbup.asp (1522 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869
		The connection of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific bridged the 2000 miles to the Missouri River, and the four to six months time taken by the overland pioneers was reduced to six days.
		At once the Pacific States were transformed, and Western life gradually caught up with the life and aspirations of the East.
		This is Central Pacific locomotive No. 1, the first engine to be placed in construction service on the western end of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rail.html (554 words)

	Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Union Pacific Railroad, 240 U.S.), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the validity of a tax statute called the Revenue Act of 1913, also known as the Tariff Act, Ch.
		The plaintiff in this case, Frank R. Brushaber, was a stockholder in the defendant Union Pacific Railroad company.
		Brushaber brought a lawsuit against the railroad company to enjoin it from paying the tax, on the contention that statute enacting the tax violated the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against the government taking property without due process of law, and further contending that the statute further violated due process by exempting certain kinds of income.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brushaber_v._Union_Pacific_Railroad (925 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Missouri Pacific itself was acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation on December 22, 1982, and its operations were consolidated with those of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
		On December 1, 1989, both the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson were merged into the Missouri Pacific.
		At the end of 1993 the Missouri Pacific operations covered 3,569 miles of main track in Texas, of which 3,024 was owned mileage.
	home.austin.rr.com /aldossantos/union_pacific_railroad.htm (92 words)

	Theodore Judah - "A Practical Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad" - 1857
		It is an indissoluble bond of union between the populous States of the East, and the undeveloped regions of the fruitful West.
		When the friends of the Pacific Railroad can approach a capitalist and answer all these questions, they may begin to hope for a realization of their wishes.
		This done and, at the expiration of two years, we have 400 miles of the Pacific Railroad completed, the gap narrowed up to 1,600 miles, and the Road so completed that the material for construction of the next divisions can be carried out over it.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist4/practical.html (6227 words)

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