Roughly 45% of all rail cars moving to and from Mexico cross through El Paso and Eagle Pass – there isn’t enough capacity at the other four gateways to reroute them. Union Pacific urges the Eagle Pass and El Paso border crossings be reopened immediately. This is impacting:
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Union Pacific's newly restored steam locomotive Big Boy
#UP4014
traveled to Ogden to mark the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad's completion on May 9, 2019.
#Transcon150
When it came time to decide how to celebrate the anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike, nothing could compare to bringing back the Big Boy
#UP4014
. More than five years after the project began, the Big Boy was christened in Cheyenne, WY, May 4, 2019.
#Transcon150
Thank you, President Bush, for a life of service, including serving as a Navy combat pilot in World War II. We were honored to pay you tribute with a custom-painted locomotive at the Bush Library in 2005. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family.
#Bush41
UP celebrated the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in Ogden, Utah on May 9, 2019. In a recreation of the famous 1869 image from Promontory,
@UP_Steam
locomotives
#UP844
and Big Boy
#UP4014
met as a ceremonial golden spike was tapped.
Union Pacific urges the Eagle Pass and El Paso border crossings be reopened immediately. These locations represent 45% of cross-border Union Pacific business and include goods critical to the U.S. economy.There isn’t enough capacity at our other four gateways to reroute them.With
One year ago, Big Boy
#UP4014
met
#UP844
in Ogden to recreate the Golden Spike ceremony, marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
Big Boy
#UP4014
is heading to all corners of the Union Pacific system in 2024! Plans are still under development, but we anticipate stops in Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Nampa, Portland, Roseville and Salt Lake City among others. Read more: !
A new TV special "Uniting America: The President's Final Journey" goes behind the scenes with the Union Pacific employees instrumental in executing the funeral train for President George Bush. Watch Sunday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 am (ET/PT) on
@Discovery
.
UP's hard-working men and women are fighting today's storm to keep America's supply chain moving.
Whether it's tumblin' tumbleweeds drifting shut a tunnel near Vaughn, NM or hurricane force gusts across the plains, our employees overcome the worst that Mother Nature throws at us
Union Pacific's famed Big Boy
#UP4014
, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will visit Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California this summer, followed by a second tour planned later this fall with stops in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and Illinois.
#UP4141
just arrived at Union Pacific's Home Plate in Omaha! The locomotive will be visible from Cuming Street until 12 p.m. Wednesday, but the gates are only open until 5 p.m. today.
#TBT
Today in Ogden, Union Pacific celebrated the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion with a ceremonial tapping of a golden spike plus the meeting of
@UP_Steam
locomotives
#UP844
and Big Boy
#UP4014
.
#Transcon150
#DONE
How awesome is this?
2,656 Lego bricks. 762 instruction steps. 300 hours.
That’s what it took for Denmark-based
@LEGOideas
superfan Lasse Hvidtfeldt to build a 3-foot-long replica of
@UP_Steam
’s Big Boy
#UP4014
steam locomotive out of plastic toy bricks.
A shout-out to our crews fighting blizzards this week all across the Great Plains! Thanks for your hard-work keeping the railroad moving! Special thanks to Dan Bryant, Manager-Track Maintenance, Cheyenne, for this photo of a wedge clearing the tracks near Albin, Wyoming.
#UP4141
, The George H.W. Bush locomotive, returns to
@TAMU
for permanent display at the
@Bush41Library
, accompanied
#UP1943
, "The Spirit." Locomotive Engineer June Nobles and Conductor Randy Kuhaneck, who operated the funeral train, also handled this final move for
#UP4141
.
Ten years ago today, in the early morning hours of January 26, 2014, Big Boy
#UP4014
returned to the rails, departing the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds to return to Cheyenne for restoration.
In case you haven't heard, Big Boy
#UP4014
is back and heading to Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, St. Louis and Denver... and places in-between! Check out the
#BigBoy2021
Tour Schedule at for all the details!
This month the world will observe the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike, which marked the transcontinental railroad’s completion. Union Pacific will lead the
#Transcon150
celebrations, starting May 9 at Ogden Union Station.
The Union Pacific Steam Team recently hoisted
#UP4014
’s more than 250-ton boiler and rear engine into the air with two massive cranes and reconnected it to its front engine. Click the link to learn more.
Today marks the anniversary of the Gateway Arch’s completion, and we're celebrating with a look back at the Big Boy
#UP4014
stop in St. Louis this summer!
We're proud to support parks like
@GatewayArchNPS
through our partnership with the
@NationalParkFdn
.
We're barely two months into 2024, but we're already thinking about our 2025 calendar and asking where the most beautiful spot on Union Pacific's 23 state network is. Let us know in the comments, and if you don't have your 2024 calendar, order it at !
We know you miss seeing our steam locomotives as much as the UP Steam Team misses operating
#up844
and Big Boy
#up4014
across the UP system. To help us stay connected, the Steam Team has put together a "virtual tour" of the Steam Shop in Cheyenne. Watch:
Our famed
@UP_Steam
Big Boy
#UP4014
, the world's largest steam locomotive, returns to the rails on June 7 for its Home Run Express Tour to Omaha, where it will be on display for 11 days during the college baseball championship.
Union Pacific's Big Boy
#UP4014
, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will make 19 whistle-stops during our 2024 Westward Bound Tour from Wyoming to California. Featured display days will be held in Roseville (July 12-13) and Ogden (July 20-21).
Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad’s Completion
The May 9 ceremony will feature UP's iconic steam locomotives,
#up844
and
#up4014
.
Union Pacific's famed Big Boy
#UP4014
is set to return to the tracks this summer! Kicking off June 26 from Cheyenne, the "West Coast Steam Tour" will celebrate UP’s 160th anniversary and the communities we serve in the Pacific Northwest.
Union Pacific urges the Eagle Pass and El Paso border crossings be reopened immediately. Roughly 450,000 rail shipments move across these two gateways annually. It would take over one million trucks to move the same amount of goods. These locations represent 45% of cross-border
Union Pacific crews, like this one on Donner Summit, CA, work continuously during winter weather to keep rail lines open, helping keep America's supply lines flowing safely. Thanks to everyone for their hard work this month battling severe winter weather!
Union Pacific announced today it is working with the George & Barbara Bush Foundation to donate the
#UP4141
George Bush Locomotive for permanent display next to the library at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
Big Boy
#UP4014
passes through Mabelvale, Arkansas during 2019's "Great Race Across the Southwest." Photo by Union Pacific conductor Julian Johnson, Alexander, Arkansas.
#TBT
Our "Sierra Snow Fighters" are firing up our rotary snowplow in northern California to clear heavy, wet snow from our rail lines. Read about Union Pacific's efforts battling winter at
Jeremy Rettig rides on his horse with an American flag alongside Union Pacific's "Big Boy" No. 4014 locomotive as it makes its way through Fults in rural Monroe County on Saturday.
Big Boy
#UP4014
returns to the rails this August, making stops in Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, St. Louis and Denver during the month-long
#BigBoy2021
tour!
Our steam crew is busy getting ready Big Boy
#UP4014
ready for the
#BigBoy2021
tour. We can't wait to see you trackside, but remember to stay back at least 25 feet!
Complete schedule information available at
Big Boy
#UP4014
pulling into Union Pacific's Home Plate! The Big Boy will be on display across from Schwab Field in Omaha from June 15-21 and June 24-25 from noon until 6 pm!
Union Pacific teamed up with Norfolk Southern and Florida East Coast Railway to safely transport 10 rocket motors from Northrop Grumman in Utah to NASA in Cape Canaveral for use in the upcoming Artemis II mission to the moon. Read more at !
One of the highlights of the Big Boy
#UP4014
's "Home Run Express" was passing Chimney Rock near Bayard, Neb. last week. Check out the rest of the Big Boy's schedule at !
#UP1943
"The Spirit" meets up with the
@CanadianPacific
's
#CP6644
at St. Paul's
@UnionDepot
to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day this weekend. Stop by from 10 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday to check out these locomotives saluting the U.S. 🇺🇸 and Canadian 🇨🇦 armed forces!
#UP4141
, the George H. W. Bush Commemorative Locomotive, is on display in Omaha across the street from the College World Series. In 1947 and 1948, the late president played in the CWS as the captain and first baseman for Yale.
Today we celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay
and the women of Union Pacific who continue to build America. Pictured are women attending to a locomotive at Bakersfield, California in August 1943.
#IWD2024
The first of six cutting-edge hybrid battery-electric locomotives designed and built by Union Pacific and
@ZTR_Solutions
will undergo extensive testing next month. Read more about this innovative new technology at !
Last month, Union Pacific's Steam Crew turned our Big Boy steam locomotive
#UP4014
around on the turntable in Cheyenne as they prepare for this summer's "West Coast Steam Tour."
Despite the 95 degree Houston heat, a large crowd of Union Pacific employees turned out Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth and the grand unveiling of the "We Are ONE" Commemorative Locomotive
#UP1979
.
#WeAreOneUP
The
@usps
will issue a commemorative transcontinental railroad 150th anniversary stamp set on May 10.
The three-piece set features horizontal commemorative stamps of Central Pacific’s Jupiter and Union Pacific’s No. 119, facing inward toward a standard-size Golden Spike stamp.
It's now officially spring, so hopefully Mother Nature will let up on the extreme weather now!
And THANK YOU to the railroaders helping keep the nation's freight moving, from the Pacific Northwest through the Rockies in Wyoming and then across the Great Plains!
UP 2731 races across the high desert on the Mojave Subdivision in Phelan, California. Photo by UP train dispatcher Richard Trujillo from San Bernardino, California.
Missed the maiden voyage of Big Boy
#UP4014
? Watch
@CBSSunday
Morning this weekend for an inside look at its run to Ogden, Utah, celebrating the transcontinental railroad’s 150th anniversary.
#Transcon150
This
#SundayMorning
In the 19th century, crews built the Transcontinental Railroad, meeting on May 10, 1869 in Utah
To help mark the project's 150th anniversary, Union Pacific engine
#4014
, built in the 1940s, has been restored