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Beautifully engraved Stock Certificate from the famous Union Pacific Corporation issued in the 1970's - 1980's. This document has an ornate orange border around it with a picture of three workers above the famous Union Pacific Logo.
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Postcard Union Pacific is steeped in history. Its railroad, basically comprising the Missouri Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific Railroads, is almost 150 years old. In 1848, the first ten miles of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, a direct predecessor of the Chicago & North Western, are completed. Then on July 4, 1851, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Pacific Railroad, a direct predecessor of the Missouri Pacific. The first rails of what will eventually become the Southern Pacific are laid at Buffalo Bayou, near Houston, TX. In 1862, Union Pacific -- chartered by an act of Congress and signed into law by Abraham Lincoln -- was created to link America's East and Midwest to the rapidly growing West Coast and to open trade with the Orient. In 1867, the Chicago and North Western connected Chicago with Omaha, thus helping to complete the first transcontinental railroad two years later. And, in 1869, the Central Pacific (later, part of the Southern Pacific) met with Union Pacific as the final link in this transcontinental line. The driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah Territory, heralded a new era of economic development for the United States. Quite literally, railroads like Union Pacific opened the West. In 1868, Andrew J. Russell, who had been an official photographer for the U.S. Army during the Civil War under Matthew Brady, was commissioned by Union Pacific to photograph its construction crews as they laid ribbons of steel across the plains and through the mountains and valleys of the western territories. This endeavor was the 19th Century technological equivalent of the space program a century later. Russell's pictures are a testament to this breathtaking achievement -- hailed as "The Great Work of the Age" -- and to the heritage of Union Pacific. A vast, rugged wilderness stood between America's fertile midwestern plains and its burgeoning West Coast when the U.S. Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862 to provide incentives for private capital to build a transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific began its westward march across rain-swollen rivers, snow-covered mountains and arid plains from Omaha, Nebraska in 1862. The Civil War interrupted building until 1865, but by the winter of 1868 track-laying forces had spanned the Green River and pushed beyond Citadel Rock, above, in southern Wyoming. In the spring of 1869, Union Pacific had cut its way into the rugged Wasatch Mountains, northeast of Salt Lake City, on its way to a rendezvous with the Central Pacific (later, part of the Southern Pacific). One of the last obstacles to the Golden Spike ceremony was the Brooks Cut, above. By the time Union Pacific reached the rendezvous point, its workforce was 10,000 strong, from bridge-builders to cooks. Many had fought in the Civil War and still wore their uniforms. Securing the last rail with the driving of the famed Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah Territory, May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad's proud builders commemorated the uniting of America by rail. From coast to coast the message, "Done," was flashed by telegraph to an excited nation. Among the men who built the Central Pacific from the West Coast, left, and Union Pacific, right, some returned home to their families, but many stayed with the Railroad to build expanding branch lines. Still others were among the tens of thousands of new settlers who began to carve homes, farms, ranches and eventually new states from the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean. Union Pacific has been serving the United States ever since, hauling billions of tons of autos, trailer and container traffic, chemicals, coal, grain, lumber, and an almost infnite variety of consumer goods. True to its mission, the Railroad has accelerated the pace of America's development and has become an important link in international trade. Union Pacific Railroad Chronological History The 1800s 1848--The first ten miles of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad are completed, a direct predecessor of the Chicago & North Western. 1851--July 4 marks groundbreaking ceremonies for the Pacific Railroad, a direct predecessor of the Missouri Pacific. The first rails of what will eventually become the Southern Pacific are laid at Buffalo Bayou, near Houston, TX. 1862--President Abraham Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act, which names and directs two companies, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to construct a transcontinental railroad. 1863--Ground is broken at Omaha for Union Pacific, but construction is delayed because of insufficient funding. Central Pacific begins construction east from Sacramento, CA. 1865--The first UP rail is laid in Omaha. The predecessor of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (Katy), is incorporated as the Union Pacific Railway Southern Branch. The manual block system of traffic control is developed. This is later replaced, in 1872, by the automatic block signal, which electrifies track circuits, reducing the frequency of accidents and collisions. 1867--George Pullman, along with Andrew Carnegie, approaches Durant with the idea of sleeper cars. George Westinghouse patents the air brake. The refrigerator car is developed. UP establishes its Land Office, and land is sold for $5 an acre. 1868--Confederate veteran Major Eli H. Janney patents the automatic coupler. 1869--The golden spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah by officials of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, marking the inauguration of the transcontinental railroad. 1870s--The gold rush. Miners flock to California and Colorado. 1871--The Den
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