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	Western Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Founded in 1903, the Western Pacific Railroad was built as a portion of the Gould family's efforts to create a transcontinental railroad in the late 19th and early 20th century.
		The Western Pacific was acquired in 1983 by Union Pacific Corporation, the owner of its long-time rival, the Union Pacific Railroad.
		Western Pacific #805A, an EMD FP7 locomotive on display in June, 1999 at the Portola Railroad Museum in Portola, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Pacific_Railroad (707 words)

	Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rio Grande was the epitome of mountain railroading, operating the highest mainline rail line in the United States over 10,240 ft (3121 m) Tennessee Pass in Colorado and the famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the Royal Gorge.
		However, the railroad was weakened by speculators, who had used the Rio Grande's equity to finance Western Pacific Railroad construction.
		On 11 September 1996 Anschutz sold the combined company to the Union Pacific Railroad, partly in a response to the earlier merger of the Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe which formed the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denver_&_Rio_Grande_Western (1925 words)

	Mike's Western Pacific Railroad Info
		The railroad was completed on November 1, 1909, with little ceremony, as Track Forman Leonardo di Tomasso drove the last spike at Keddie, CA on the bridge that spanned Spanish Creek.
		The Western Pacific Railroad Company was now free of the debt of the construction bonds and they started building and/or purchasing of the necessary feeder lines to the railroad.
		The Western Pacific became the Feather River Division of the Union Pacific Railroad.
	members.cox.net /mhawkins.family/WPHistory.html (728 words)

	Chapter 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alfred E. Perlman came to Western Pacific after a long and distinguished railroading career which included service for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, the New York Central and the Penn Central and was recognized as one of the foremost railroad executives in the nation.
		On Feb. 16, 1978, the Western Pacific Railroad Company was sold to this group for approximately $14 million in cash and securities, and with Interstate Commerce Commission approval (dated January 26, 1979) formally acquired the assets of The Western Pacific Railroad Company from Western Pacific Industries, thereby restoring Western Pacific to its independent status.
		Western Pacific was to become a wholly owned subsidiary which would maintain it’s own corporate identity and operate as the Fourth District of the Union Pacific system.
	www.wplives.com /history/html/chapter_24.html (1393 words)

	Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society-History of the Western Pacific Railroad
		"The advent of the Western Pacific Railway is epochal.
		Perlman came to Western Pacific after a long and distinguished railroading career which included service for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, the New York Central and the Penn Central and was recognized as one of the foremost railroad executives in the nation.
		Western Pacific's independent corporate existence however may be said to have terminated on January 11, 1983 when at a meeting of the Company's Board of Directors action was taken to confirm the Company's status as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
	www.wprrhs.org /wphistory.html (12279 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Western Pacific Railroad, Oroville, Oroville, Butte County, California
		WPR operated the 90-acre railyard for almost 60 years until the railyard was purchased by Union Pacific Railroad (UPR) in 1983.
		The Western Pacific Railroad Oroville Yard is at 900 Marysville-Baggett Road, two miles south of Oroville, California (Figure 1).
		The WPR well that contained DCE and TCA is next to those buildings, but the source of its contamination is not thought to originate in that area.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/westernpacificrr/wpr_p1.html (10801 words)

	Ancestor Railroads
		Railroads first came to what is today Fremont in 1865 when three separate companies raced to lay the first track through Niles Canyon, attempting to connect the Bay Area with Sacramento.
		One of these was named the Western Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with the 1900-era railroad of the same name).
		In effect, these "paper" railroads simply kept a new railroad line off the parent's operating accounts until it was finished and ready to be turned over to the operating department.
	centervilledepot.railfan.net /ancestorrailroads.html (724 words)

	LearnCalifornia.org - Central Pacific Railroad
		The winter of 1866-67 was one of the harshest on record, and caught the crews of the railroad in the midst of drilling eleven tunnels at the highest elevations.
		The Union Pacific, chartered by the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, was formally organized in October 1863 to construct west from the Missouri River and across the Great Plains and Rockies until it met the Central Pacific coming the other way.
		Completing the Pacific railroad (it wouldn't be commonly called the "transcontinental railroad" for another year or two) had the same effect on the popular imagination as would man's walking on the moon one hundred years and a couple of months later.
	www.learncalifornia.org /doc.asp?id=112&pagetype=content (5790 words)

	Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History
		Several were, in effect, "paper railroads" and may have done surveys and/or purchased land, but built no operating railroad.
		Published timetables in 1888 showed Central Pacific as San Francisco to Ogden, Southern Pacific of California was San Francisco to Templeton and Southern Pacific Company as operating the balance in California.
		Central Pacific Railroad Company was leased to Southern Pacific Company on April 1, 1885, and appeared in the first ICC (6/30/88) as a non-operating subsidiary with 1,356 miles owned.
	www.cprr.org /Museum/Encyclopedia.html (866 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - River City Depots
		Acquisition in 1869 of the (first) Western Pacific Railroad assured CP of an all-rail route to the Bay Area via Stockton, Tracy, Altamont Pass, Niles Canyon, and San Jose.
		A year later the California Pacific Railroad arrived in Sacramento from Vallejo, crossing the Sacramento River via a large, wood truss bridge near the location of today’s "I" Street bridge.
		The new railroad and its depot opened to considerable local fanfare because of the simple reason that the WP was not controlled by the Central Pacific/Southern Pacific railroads, and thus competition seemed likely.
	www.californiastaterailroadmuseum.org /doc.asp?id=145 (1822 words)

	Portola Railroad Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Western Pacific's jewel in this triple crown was the Feather River Route, 115 miles of crashing waters, sheer gorges, incredible bridges and tunnels that mark the canyon.
		It's an old train workshop donated by the Union Pacific Railroad to help the Feather River Rail Society preserve the heritage of the Western Pacific and railroading in general; in the early Eighties, UP bought up the financially ailing WP and took over its tracks across the Sierras.
		For model railroaders, a large HO layout is under construction, and one of the volunteers paints railroad art that's savant dynamic.
	www.railroadinfo.com /triprprt/feather_02.html (829 words)

	Western Pacific Railroad Company - California
		WESTERN PACIFIC GOES TO WORK Gould and Jeffery had, however, enabled the Western Pacific to embark on its career with a top-flight staff of officers.
		REORGANIZATION The Western Pacific Railroad Company had been incorporated by the bondholders a few weeks before, to operate the railway and, subsequent to the auction, the Western Pacific Railroad Corporation was chartered by the same parties as a holding company.
		In 1982, the Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads merged.
	www.scripophily.net /wespacrailco.html (9821 words)

	San Joaquin & Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The fictional San Joaquin and Pacific Railroad was a joint business venture between the Western Pacific Railroad and the Santa Fe Railway to move freight and passengers between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California with access to the newly constructed port of Ventura.
		The Western Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific Railroads are no longer, but the spirit that drove them to lay ribbons of steel across this young nation in order to bring it together and promote its growth remains.
		Model railroading is more than "playing with trains." It always has been and remains to this day a participation in that unique American spirit which is always seeking to create and build that which is the stuff of imagination and dreams.
	mysite.verizon.net /res7xk20/sanjoaquinandpacificrailroad (318 words)

	Western Railroads, Transcontinental, Railroad
		Western railroads expanding the West connected a continent when all the investors saw were worthless sage brush, insurmountable mountains and a few scattered settlers.
		The building of the transcontinental western railroads brought together California with the rest of the nation was the largest single western railroad expansion.
		Western railroads brought tremendous wealth to such men as Collis Huntington and Thomas Durant through less than honorable means.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/hubs/railroads_expanding_west/railroads_expanding_west.html (449 words)

	Western Pacific in Utah
		Western Pacific Railway organized in California to build from Salt Lake City to Oakland, Calif. (LeMassena, Rio Grande to the Pacific, p.
		Western Pacific Railway reorganized as the Western Pacific Railroad Co. This was a California corporation fully controlled by Western Pacific Railroad Corporation, a Delaware holding corporation.
		State Road Commission received Utah PSC approval to construct a concrete overpass over the Union Pacific Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad for a new state highway, called the Garfield Cut-off.
	utahrails.net /wp/wp-in-ut.php (1278 words)

	Western Pacific Railroad Museum - RailroadForums.Com
		In 1984, the Feather River Rail Society (FRRS) opened the doors on its new Portola Railroad Museum, founded by dedicated fans of the Western Pacific Railroad and with a goal of preserving some examples of Plumas County’s railroad heritage.
		While this has led to a thinning of “non-core” equipment, it has also guided the Society in creating new programs, including the preservation of Western Pacific steam power (starting with 0-6-0 165) as well as the acquisition and restoration of cars and locomotives originally used on the historic California Zephyr passenger train.
		The organization relies on membership dues, donations, and a variety of fundraising activities to achieve its goals of collecting, preserving, and restoring railroad equipment and property of historical significance with particular emphasis on the former Western Pacific Railroad.
	www.railroadforums.com /forum/showthread.php?p=99383#post99383 (422 words)

	Railwear - Western Pacific
		The Western Pacific Railroad ran the western most section of the world famous California Zephyr transcontinental passenger train.
		A license plate featuring the Western Pacific Railroad's portion of the California Zephyr, along with several WP and CZ logos.
		Enhanced version of an ad for the Western Pacific section of the world famous California Zephyr, transcontinental passenger train under the Pulga Bridge in the Feather River Canyon.
	www.rebelrails.com /shop/index.php?action=category&id=72 (244 words)

	Missouri Pacific Railroad Memories
		It was the first railroad to serve Kansas City, reached in 1865, after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War.
		In 1872 the line was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway, and in 1879 it came under the control of New York financier Jay Gould, who developed a system extending through Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana.
		In 1982 the Missouri Pacific merged with the Union Pacific and Western Pacific Railroad companies to form the "Union Pacific System", under the holding company Union Pacific Corporation.
	members.aol.com /cliffs1948 (439 words)

	Western Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I have ridden on many tourist railroads and on special excursions.
		In addition to full size trains I model in HO scale, which is 1:87 or approximately 1/8 inch per foot.
		This locomotive is currently located at the Western Railway Museum in California.
	home.att.net /~egurzler/Wp/WesternPacific.html (167 words)

	Lewis Metzler Clement, Central Pacific Railroad Pioneer
		Of his many accomplishments, perhaps the greatest was his work as one of the central figures in the planning and construction of the Central Pacific Railroad across California's treacherously unforgiving Sierra Nevada mountains and the desolate but beautiful deserts of the Nevada and Utah Territories between 1862 and 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad.
		He later was appointed Chief Engineer of the Western Division of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad which became part of the Santa Fe Railroad.
		In 1881 Clement was named Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, in which capacity he designed and built urban cable and electric railways, power plants, and car houses.
	www.cprr.org /Museum/Lewis_Metzler_Clement.html (5750 words)

	Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society
		From 1910 until being merged into the mighty Union Pacific Railroad in 1982, the Western Pacific was one of the West's most popular railroads.
		Attracting fans from all over the world, the WP's short but diverse route featured everything from urban industrial trackage in the thriving metropolis of the San Francisco bay area to the scenic splendors and sleepy mountain communities of the famous Feather River Route and on through the desert wastelands of Eastern Nevada and Utah.
		If you have any Western Pacific specific questions or inquiries, please click here to find the appropriate person to contact.
	www.wprrhs.org (270 words)

	Railroad Interests at Tobin Resort
		Then, Union Pacific bought out Western Pacific and began to run their trains up the Feather River Route.
		Now, Western Pacific lives on only through pictures and the Union Pacific, which occasionaly runs Western Pacific trains through its old territory.
		When the railroad was the only form of transportation, Tobin had its own depot and several hundred people living here.
	www.tobinresort.com /rrpage.html (543 words)

	Central California Rails - Portola Railroad Museum
		Nothing beats the Western Pacific Museum as for the most part, it is a hands on museum, Their summer caboose train rides, and most importantly, their RAL program.
		Train #1 with Western Pacific NW2 #608 pulling 3 cabooses, this train was first out and last in, it carried the Railfan photographers out to the balloon track so they would not have to carry all their equipment out there.
		Pictures 9-13, the star of the day was Train #2, Western Pacific Freight train representative of the 1970's, The train was led by WP GP7 #707, WP GP20, 6 boxcars and WP Caboose #428.
	cencalrails.railfan.net /portola.html (568 words)

	NPL Site Narrative for Western Pacific Railroad Co., NPL, Superfund, US EPA
		Conditions at proposal (October 26, 1989): Western Pacific Railroad Co. operated a 90-acre rail yard from approximately 1920 to 1983 at a location 2 miles south of Oroville, Butte County, California.
		On the facility was a wooden structure encompassing approximately 3 acres, known as the roundhouse, which was used to fuel, repair, service, and clean railcars.
		Studies are underway to characterize contaminated soils in the fueling area and adjacent to the old separator.
	www.epa.gov /superfund/sites/npl/nar1273.htm (494 words)

	WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.
		This impoundment, which is on the western portion of the site, was cleaned up by the current owner, Union Pacific Railroad Co., in 1989 in response to an order issued by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (CRWQCB).
		In 1994, Union Pacific signed an agreement with the EPA to complete the soil analysis and baseline risk assessment.
		In 1997 EPA issued a ROD; the selected remedy is excavation of contaminated soil in the Fueling Area in conjunction with long-term institutional controls limiting the use of the property to industrial use only.
	yosemite.epa.gov /r9/sfund/overview.nsf/ef81e03b0f6bcdb28825650f005dc4c1/3f584d87319900778825660b007ee6a2?OpenDocument (1075 words)

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