HAPPY 150TH, UNION PACIFIC!

HAPPY 150TH, UNION PACIFIC!

 

To the Union Pacific Railroad

Much manifest destiny’s owed…

From initial review,

Eighteen sixty-two,

The beginning idea was sold.

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The story’s not easy to tell,

Greedy speculation’s there as well…

Public convenience

Into investor’s fence,

To squeeze millions out of the till.

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The August TRAINS MAGAZINE

Details Union Pacific dreams….

And how over time

It became a great line,

Despite the challenges seen.

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Happy one hundred-fifty, U.P.,

You’ll get no denial from me…

Hauling those freight cars

And passengers far,

You’ve survived one-and-a-half centuries!

 

—Jonathan Caswell