Library

General History

• Colorado Rail Annual No. 10: Narrow Gauge to Central City and Silver Plume
  Cornellius W. Hauk
  Colorado Railroad Museum, 1974, 220 pages, over 300 photos, hardcover. A history of the first narrow gauge to push west into the Rockies. Begun in 1872 as the Colorado Central, it became part of the Union Pacific and eventually the Colorado & Southern. Built to serve the mining communities of Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, its famed Georgetown Loop became a popular tourist attraction.
• Colorado Rail Annual No. 15: Idaho & Montana Issue
  
  Colorado Railroad Museum, 1981, 316 pages, over 200 photos, rosters and maps, hardcover. Mallory Hope Ferrell is a history of the Ogden-Butte line of the Union Pacific. U.P. Montana by Cornelius W. Hauck is a profusely illustrated story of the operations on the Butte line after standard gauging. Gilmore & Pittsburgh by Rex Myers covers a virtually unknown standard gauge line in Idaho's Salmon River country.
• Colorado Rail Annual No. 18: Railroading In The Rockies Half a Century Ago
  
  Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990, 240 pages, over 300 photographs, acid free paper, hardcover. In the Mountains of Utah by Jackson Thode and James L. Ozment. Early construction on the Rio Grande in the Utah desert and across Soldier Summit. General Palmer's Other Narrow Gauge by Robert A. LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge. The Denver Post's Frontier Days Special by Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest. The Greatest Train by Alexis McKinney. A personal reminiscence of the Frontier Days. Union Pacific's Articulated Steam Power by R.H. Kindig and R.C. Farewell.
• Dreams, Visions & Visionaries: Colorado Rail Annual No. 20
  
  Colorado Railroad Museum, 1993, 240 pages, over 300 photographs, acid free paper, hardcover. Rio Grande in the Utah desert and across Soldier Summit. The Denver Post's Frontier Days Special by Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest. The Greatest Train by Alexis McKinney. A personal reminiscence of the Frontier Days. General Palmer's Other Narrow Gauge by Robert A. LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge. Union Pacific's Articulated Steam Power by R.H In the Mountains of Utah by Jackson Thode and James L. Ozment. Early construction on the. Kindig and R.C. Farewell.
• Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
  David Bain
  1999
• Epic Of The Overland An Account Of The Building Of The Central And Union Pacific Railroad
  Fulton, Robert Lardin
  Los Angeles: N.A.Kovach, 1954
• Fifty Years of Union Pacific Steam Excursions
  Lloyd Stagner & James Reisdorff
  2003, 8.5 x 11, soft cover, 64 pages 63 photos, South Platte Press
• Guidebook to the Western United States- The Overland Route
  US Govt. Printing Office, 1916.
  For those interested in geology and regional history along the historic UP main line, it is a "must".
• History Of The Union Pacific
  Trottman, Nelson: NY: Augustus M. Kelley
  Pub., 1923. 1966 reprint
• History of the Union Pacific Coal Mines 1868-1940
  1940. The Colonial Press. Omaha, NE : 265 pages
• History Of The Union Pacific Railway
  White, Henry Kirke: Chicago, UC Press,1895
  129 pages, index, 14 charts (2 folded)
• How We Built the Union Pacific Railway
  Grenville M. Dodge
  Bibliographical Center for Research, 218pp, 2009. The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the steam engine to the thrill of early travel by rail, railroads opened up new opportunities for commerce, American westward expansion and travel. These books provide a unique view of the impact of this type of transportation on our urban and rural societies and cultures, while allowing the reader to share the experience of early railroading in a new and unique way. The Trains & Railroads Collection offers a valuable perspective on this important and fascinating aspect of modern industrialization.
• Iron Horses to Promontory Railroad: Central Pacific - Union Pacific
  Gearld M. Best
  Golden West Books 1969, 207 pages
• Kansas Central Narrow Gauge Slim Rails Across the Midlands
  I.E. Quastler
  South Platte Press 1999, 104 pages
• Life And Adventures Of Sam Bass - The Notorious Union Pacific And Texas Train Robber
  Bass, Sam
  Dallas: Dallas Commerical Steam Pnt, 1878. 1st Reprint
• List Of References To Literature Relating To The Union Pacific System
  Library Bureau of Railway Economics
  Crofton reprint 1922 original ed. 299 pages
• Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
  Stephen E Ambrose
  Simon & Schuster 2001, 432pp Soft Cover. Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants and low-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such as California's "Big Four"--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steel rails from ocean to ocean. The real work of doing so, of course, was on the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese and Irish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary called their "dreadful vitality" figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative, alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standard textbooks.
• Pioneering the Union Pacific, A Reappraisal of the Builders of the Railroad
  Ames, Charles Edgar
  Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1st, 1969, 591 pages
• Powder River Coal Trains
  Jeremy Taylor
  A pictorial look at the huge unit trains and modern highcapacity railroads that serve America's largest and newest coal mining operations. The book examines the transportation of the coal from the mines to the power plants in photographs and detailed text. Detailed charts list all the power plants served and accurate maps give the reader unparalled comprehension of this massive operation. 104 pages featuring 130 Color and B/W photographs. 1997.
• The Deschutes River Railroad War.
  Leon Speroff
  Arnica Publishing Inc.. 2006. 240 pages. Tracing the geological and railroad history of the Pacific Northwest, Leon Speroff uniquely evokes the Age of the Railroad in his newst book, The Deschutes River Railroad War. With intricate detail, expert understanding and amusing anedotes, he brings to life this facinating true tale of the race to expand railroad service from the Columbia River up the Deschutes River to Bend, Oregon. When the two railroad barons, James J. Hill of the Great Northern and Edward H. Harriman of the Union Pacific, both set their sights on the Deschutes River Canyon for building a railway to Bend, neither man could have foreseen the massive expenditure of money, time, energy and human lives that characterized their mad rush to the finish. At the heart of this gripping story is the essence of the American West and the magnates, workers, immigrants and settlers whose impact on the region would usher the age of railroad transportation into the Twentieth century.
• The First Transcontinental Railroad; Central Pacific Union Pacific.
  Galloway, John Debo
  New York. Simmons-Boardman. 1950. 319 pages
• The History Of The Union Pacific; America's Great Transcontinental Railroad
  Cahill, Mary & Lynn Piade
  NY: Crescent, 1989. 127 pages
• The History of the Union Pacific in Cheyenne
  Robert Darwin, published by Express Press Ltd. 1987.
  It contains 386 pages. This coffee table style book contains an excellent overview of the Union Pacific's rich history in Cheyenne with a great compliment of photos to support it.
• The Life and Legend of E.H. Harriman
  Maury Klein
• The Union Pacific Drama
  Robert P. Olmsted
  2003 Images, portraits and impressions of Union Pacific locomotives and trains between 1950 and 2003. From steam, E's and F's through GP30's and SD40's to 6000 HP units. 88 pages, 16 color
• Union Pacific: A Decade of Transition
  Wayne Monger
  Pub: Pacific RailNews/Pentrex, 1996
• Union Pacific Across Sherman Hill
  George Drury
  Kalmbach Pub. 1999 128 pages
• Union Pacific Challenger 1935 - 1971
  Patrick C. Dorin
  The story of the innovative Challenger locomotive which was a test bed for modern passenger operations. Includes interior and exterior photos of the cars, motive power, operations, timetables, rosters. Perfect for UP and passenger train enthusiasts. Over 100 B&W with some color photos. Soft Cover.
• Union Pacific Country
  Robert G. Athearn, published by the University of Nebraska Press1976
  386 pages. This book covers the Union Pacific's beginnings through its receivership purchase in 1897.
• Union Pacific: Crossing Sherman Hill
  B. Arnold
  South Platte Press, A narative of UPRR employees who rode the rails across southern Wyoming.
• Union Pacific Equipment List & Renumbering June, 1885
  James Ehernberger
• Union Pacific: Hell On Wheels!
  Carson, John
  Santa Fe, Press of the Territorian, 1968. 36 pages, illustrations, wraps.
• Union Pacific. Official Color Photography. Book I
  LeMassena, Robert
  Edison. Morning Sun. 1993. 128 pages
• Union Pacific. Official Color Photography Book II
  Lou Schmitz & Robert Yanosey
  Morning Sun Books 1999 128 pages
• Union Pacific Railroad
  Joe Welsh and Kevin J. HollandVoyager Press, 2010, 160pp, Hard Cover. This history follows the Union Pacific from its formation through such landmark events as the completion of the transcontinental railroad and right up to the railroad’s current role in the continent’s current transportation infrastructure. Fully illustrated with historical and modern images, the book recaptures the drama of the railroad’s perilous formative years, its weathering of economic disasters like the Great Depression, its boom times during World War II, the subsequent decline of passenger services, and the UP’s role in the rail industry’s merger-mania from the 1970s through the 1990s.
• Union Pacific Railroad Color History
  Brian Solomon
• Union Pacific Railroad System Employee Timetables, February 1948
  Union Pacific Historical Society
• Union Pacific Rails to the Mines, The Boise, Nampa & Owyhee Ry.
  Thornton Waite
  1999, 64 pages UP's Murphy branch from Nampa to Murphy, Idaho
• Union Pacific The Building Of The First Transcontinental Railroad
  Hogg, Garry
  New York: Walker & Co., 1969.
• Union Pacific, Volume 1"The birth of a Railroad 1862-1893"
  Maury Klein
  685 pages
• Union Pacific Volume II, "The Rebirth 1894-1969"
  Maury Klein
  This volume covers the Union Pacific coming out of receivership with its sale on the steps of the Omaha Freighthouse to the railroad it evolved to in 1969.
• Union Pacific West From Leavenworth
  I.E. Quastler
  South Platte Press 1999, 88 pages
• Western Incidents Connected With The Union Pacific Railroad Seymour
  Silas
  Reprint D. Van Nostrand New York, NY 1970
• Westward to Promontory
  text by Barry B. Combs: historic photos by Andrew J. Russell
  Pictorial documentary of the building of the UP. : Softcover 79 pages
• Westward To Promontory. Building The Union Pacific Across The Plains And Mountains
  Jackson, Samuel B.
  New York. Doubleday & Company. 1976. 348 pages