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The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.
The Union Pacific was a comparative latecomer to the dome scene when it ordered the Astra Domes from ACF in 1954; most western railroads already operated domes, some since the late 1940s. [6] ACF delivered the 35 cars to the Union Pacific in 1955 at the cost of US$10,000,000.
Budd delivered the fifty cars between December 1949 and June 1950; [3]: 162 the "largest class of sleepers on the Union Pacific rails." The Union Pacific used the Pacific series on various overnight streamliners in the 1950s and 1960s. [4]: 50 One car, Pacific Empire, was written off after a rear-end collision at Wyuta, Wyoming in November 1951.
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
Originally, McKeen cars used engines from the Standard Motor Works of Jersey City, New Jersey, but switched to an engine of their own design from the eighth car produced, M8 on the Union Pacific. [2] All engines were straight-6 in configuration, of power ratings between 100 horsepower (75 kW) on the first car ( M1 ) and a maximum of 300 ...
Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 844: December 1944 American Locomotive Company (ALCO) FEF-3 4-8-4 Operational Union Pacific Railroad, Cheyenne, Wyoming: 1242: T-57 4-6-0 Static display 1243: October 1890 T-57 4-6-0 Static display 2005: April 1911 Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) MK-1: 2-8-2: Static display Ross Park in Pocatello, Idaho ...
The M-10000 was an early American streamlined passenger trainset that operated for the Union Pacific Railroad from 1934 until 1941. It was the first streamlined passenger train to be delivered in the United States, and the second to enter regular service after the Pioneer Zephyr of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
The Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 was a diesel-electric streamlined train built in 1934 by Pullman-Standard with a power system developed by General Motors Electro-Motive Corporation using a Winton 201A Diesel engine and General Electric generator, control equipment and traction motors.