UP Celebrates 150 Years

Nearly 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln established Union Pacific Railroad and set the wheels in motion to connect the nation. UP’s Sesquicentennial celebration not only honors that day in 1862 when Lincoln’s pen met paper, but also the decades that followed, chronicling how the railroad’s history parallels that of the American experience. From settling the West, to the patriotism of World Wars, to the progression of technology — and, above all, the growth of communities whose stories are tied to our own — our past reminds us of the enormous responsibility we have for our nation’s future.