No other railroad has quite the same hold on the American imagination. It was the railroad that opened the West, and it was the railroad that operated the largest steam and diesel locomotives ever built. And during the first half of the 1990s, Union Pacific established itself as the most powerful and influential railroad in the business.

Union Pacific, A Decade of Transition delivers a capsule history of the railroad during the first part of the 1990s - from the time when there were still four major Western railroads competing with each other, up to the bidding war with rival Burlington Northern for the Santa Fe. Wayne Monger, Union Pacific columnist for Pacific RailNews Magazine, showcases the efforts of more than 80 photographers. Breathtaking photos and informative text capture the action between the final assimilation of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas into the UP operating scheme, through the sale or abandonment of roughly 5,700 miles of branch lines, and the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars on new track and new equipment.

Here is the UP at a time when the Chicago & North Western was still its primary interchange partner, and the Southern Pacific was little more than a rival parallel railroad. In essence, this is a portrait of the new Standard Railroad of the World created for today's and tomorrow's readers to enjoy.

68 pages, 32 color pages, 90 color and black and white photos.
Softbound, 8-1/2" x 11"
ISSN: 8750-8486
Published by Pentrex 1996

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