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Union Pacific Railroad Depot |
Solomon, KS |
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Union Pacific Railroad Complex |
Evanston |
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Dale Creek Crossing (48AB145) |
Ames Monument |
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Union Pacific Roundhouse, Turntable and Machine Shop |
Cheyenne |
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Victor Railroad Depot |
Victor |
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Caldwell Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot |
Caldwell, ID |
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Fullerton Union Pacific Depot |
Fullerton, CA |
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36th Street Viaduct |
Omaha, NE |
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Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot |
Ontario |
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Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass |
Las Vegas |
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Union Pacific Railroad Julesburg Depot |
Julesburg |
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Evanston Roundhouse Turntable Bridge |
Union Pacific Railroad Complex |
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Weiser Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot |
Weiser |
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| 1862/07/01 |
President Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, establishing the Union Pacific Railroad and providing Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad. |
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| 1864/10/07 |
Charles T Sherman is appointed to the Board of Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad by Abraham Lincoln |
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| 1867/00/00 |
Fort D A Russell is established to protect workers for the Union Pacific Railroad. |
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Fort David A Russell |
Cheyenne |
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| 1868/00/00 |
Led by Chief Engineer General William Wierman Wright, a Union Pacific Railroad survey party inscribes on the rocks around Law Springs "RAE", "JB", "UPRR", "AP 1868", "AWW", "CSM", "WWW" and "UPKWED 1868". |
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Laws Spring |
Williams Ranger District, Kaibab NF |
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| 1868/00/00 |
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Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site |
Wyoming |
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| 1869/00/00 |
UP builds Eleven trestles. The railroad ties and stringers are redwood other types of wood. Trestles are constructed of vertical round support beams with a roadbed of railroad ties topped with flat stringers. |
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Transcontinental Railroad Grade |
Corinne |
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American Transcontinental Railroad |
| 1869/04/28 |
Union Pacific lays 10 miles and 59 feet of railroad track |
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Golden Spike National Historic Site |
Promontory, UT |
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American Transcontinental Railroad |
| 1869/05/10 |
Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroads join their rails, creating North America's first railroad across the continent |
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Golden Spike National Historic Site |
Promontory, UT |
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American Transcontinental Railroad |
| 1870/00/00 |
The Union Pacific Railroad carries most of the charcoal produced by the Piedmont kilns to the Utah Valley near Salt lake City, Utah. |
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Piedmont Charcoal Kilns |
Piedmont |
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| 1879/00/00 |
Presumably, Utah workers furnish the ties and build a railroad from York to Frisco. Union Pacific officials and Gould supply the rail and rolling stock. |
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Frisco Charcoal Kilns |
Milford |
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| 1881/00/00 |
Army sells buildings and land to the Union Pacific |
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Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park |
Nebraska |
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| 1885/00/00 |
Charles F Adams commissions Henry Van Brunt to design a large number of railroad stations in the West for the Union Pacific Railroad. |
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| 1902/00/00 |
Sterling Union Pacific Railroad Depot built in the Romanesque Revival style |
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Sterling Union Pacific Railroad Depot |
Sterling |
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| 1936/12/00 |
Union Pacific opens the Sun Valley Ski Resort with the world's first chairlift, invented by Union Pacific engineer, James Curran. |
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Proctor Mountain Ski Lift |
Sun Valley, ID |
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| 1936/12/00 |
Sun Valley Lodge opens |
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Sun Valley Lodge |
Sun Valley, ID |
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| 1973/00/00 |
Rail line re-construction begins with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad. |
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Georgetown Loop Railroad |
Silver Plume |
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| 1973/00/00 |
Rail line re-construction begins with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad. |
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Georgetown Loop Railroad |
Georgetown |
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| 1987/00/00 |
The Union Pacific Railroad announces intentions to demolish the old Watseka Depot and give potential new owner one month to save it. The new owner will also need to move the station away from the tracks. |
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Watseka Union Depot |
Watseka |
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| 2002/00/00 |
Union Pacific donates the Tucumcari Depot to the City of Tucumcari |
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Rock Island-Southern Pacific Passenger Depot |
Tucumcari |
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