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Union Pacific railroad

Union Pacific Railroad
Union pacific railroad logo.svg
Union Pacific Railroad system map.svg
System map (trackage rights in purple)
Union Pacific loco.png
Reporting mark UP (road locomotives), UPY (yard locomotives), UPP (passenger railcars)
Locale United States from Chicago, Illinois, and cities along the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast
Dates of operation 1862–present
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length 32,100 miles (51,660 km)
Headquarters 1400 Douglas Street
Omaha, Nebraska
Website www.up.com
Union Pacific Corporation
Public
Traded as UNP
DJTA Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Transportation
Founded Omaha, Nebraska, United States (1862 (1862))
Headquarters Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Area served
Western and Mid-Western United States
Key people
  • Lance M. Fritz, Chairman, President and CEO
Revenue
  • Increase US$ 21.963 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 20.926 billion (2012)
  • Increase US$ 7.446 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 6.745 billion (2012)
  • Increase US$ 4.388 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 3.943 billion (2012)
Total assets
  • Increase US$ 49.731 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 47.153 billion (2012)
Total equity
  • Increase US$ 21.225 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 19.877 billion (2012)
Number of employees
42,884 (2010)
Subsidiaries
  • Southern Pacific Rail Corporation
  • Union Pacific Railroad Company
  • Alton & Southern Railway
  • Insight Network Logistics (INL)
  • PS Technology (PST)
  • Ship Cars Now
  • Streamline
  • Transentric
  • Union Pacific Distribution Services (UPDS)
Website www.up.com
Footnotes / references

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

The original company was incorporated on July 1, 1862, under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. It was constructed westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet the Central Pacific Railroad line, which was constructed eastward from San Francisco Bay.


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