Trivia: How many ‘Western US’ railroads have included the name ‘Pacific’? Can you name them?
Central Pacific Built the western end of the first transcontinental line out to Promontory, Utah.
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific (The only survivor left today)
Western Pacific
Southern Pacific
Here, in a blast from the past, The Western Pacific hauls the California Zephyr for it’s third segment
from Utah on to California.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/646695/
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/649719/