Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad is the biggest railroad
corporation in the United States. The Union Pacific has
interests in twenty-three states in the U.S. Union Pacific
has over 100,000 freight cars and 8,500 locomotive engines.
This corporation has 50,000 employees on the payroll
servicing 32,000 track miles. The Union Pacific was one of
two railroads chosen by President Abraham Lincoln to
construct the Transcontinental Railway in 1862. In 1869 the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads drove the last
ceremonial track spike in Summit, Utah to complete the
railway. This opened up the West to miners and settlers. In
1982, the Union Pacific, the Western Pacific, and the
Missouri Pacific Railroads merged to become one operating
railroad corporation. The Union Pacific Corporation began
construction of a new nineteen-story headquarters building
in Omaha, Nebraska in 2002.
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