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Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops Facility : ウィキペディア英語版 | Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops Facility The Union Pacific Railroad Omaha Shops Facility was a shop for the trains of the Union Pacific located at North 9th and Webster in Downtown Omaha. With the first locomotives arriving in 1865,〔Federal Writers Project. (1939) ''Nebraska.'' Nebraska State Historical Society. p242.〕 it took until the 1950s for the facility to become the major overhaul and maintenance facility for the railroad. This lasted until 1988 when UP moved most of the operations out-of-state. Demolition began soon afterwards. ==About== The shops were equipped for the complete overhaul and repair of all railroad equipment. The ''General Sherman'', also known as Engine Number 1, arrived from St. Louis, Missouri in 1865. The Great Flood of 1881 covered the entire facility with dirt, and later sand pumped from the Missouri River bed. In 1905 William R. McKeen, Jr. invented the track motorcar there, later forming the McKeen Motor Car Company on the site at the insistence of UP head E. H. Harriman.〔Federal Writers Project. (1939) ''Nebraska.'' Nebraska State Historical Society. p242.〕
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