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Article: The road traveled, the road ahead UP at 140.(Union Pacific Railroad Co.)
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- Railway Age
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Few events in American industrial history have so stirred the public imagination as the creation of a "transcontinental railroad" by a stroke of President Abraham Lincoln's pen seven score years ago. No single event did more to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" of westward expansion.
The historic public/private partnership set in motion on July 1, 1862, produced, seven years later, rail lines joined by a golden spike on a windswept promontory in Utah, and known today as the Union Pacific.
Contributing Editor Larry Kaufman in the adjoining essay sketches the alternately rocky and rewarding road traveled so far by Union Pacific.
Where has the ...