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Modes of UP Transportation (tap to read)

1/14/2022

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Beginning in 1927 you could take the Union Pacific to a lot of places that didn’t even have railroad tracks. How so? Union Pacific Stage Lines began operation that year. It was a bus company that ran in conjunction with the railroad’s passenger operations.
 
Union Pacific Stages competed with Greyhound Lines and other bus companies until 1952, when it sold its fleet to Greyhound, getting out of the passenger business on the highways.
 
One place the Union Pacific buses often visited was Sun Valley, the resort originally started by Averell Harriman, chairman of UP in 1935.

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Union Pacific Stages bus with Sun Valley passengers.
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One of the inside pages from a timetable put out by Union Pacific in 1940.
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Steamboats were also part of the Union Pacific’s transportation network. This is the Steamboat Lewiston passing under the Lewiston-Clarkston bridge in about 1900.
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