Union Pacific Railroad as of 2019
The original Transcontinental Railroad route was the combined efforts of two railroads: the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific. By 2019, 150 years after joining their rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, only the Union Pacific remains.
Union Pacific operates along much of the original Transcontinental Railroad route between Sacramento, Calif., and Omaha, Neb., but it’s routes also connect every state from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
See how the railroad winds throughout the West in this map from the pages of Trains Magazine.
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Aren’t Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee east of the Mississippi River. Maybe from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean but we’ll have to sneak Tennessee in someway.
Aren’t North and South Dakota between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean?