Union Pacific Railroad (Part 2)

I hope you've had a chance to look at the Union Pacific website showing the history of its own logos. Fantastic information!

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/uplogo/index.shtml

Now, back to tracing the companies that joined together to make up the current system.

In 1980, the Missouri Pacific Railroad was acquired, the Western Pacific in 1983, and the Missouri, Kansas, Texas (known as Katy in 1988).

Missour Pacific logo

Western Pacific logo

Two versions of the Missouri, Kansas Texas l

  

In 1984, Southern Pacific merged with Santa Fe Industries, parent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.

The Southern Pacific rail assets were subsequently sold to Union Pacific while the Santa Fe became part of Burlington Northern. Ironically, Union Pacific had also owned the Southern Pacific from 1901 to 1913 when the Supreme Court required divestiture.

Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe logo

Southern Pacific logo

The Chicago and North Western line was acquired in 1995. It had previously acquired other Midwest railroads including the Chicago Great Western and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. Their logos are shown below.

      

All of the logos fit within the square/circular format that works well on the front of the locomotive.