(rshsdepot) Ogden Union Station

["Jim Dent" <james.dent_@_itochu.com>]

A Union Pacific news release...

Union Pacific Donates Vintage Locomotive to Utah State Railroad Museum

OGDEN Feb. 5, 2002 – Union Pacific Railroad today donated a vintage Southern
Pacific locomotive to the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden Union Station.
The railroad also announced that it has renewed the lease for the historic
station property to the museum for a dollar a year.

Union Pacific Western Region Vice President Jeff Verhaal and Ogden Mayor
Matthew R. Godfrey participated in a donation ceremony which also featured
Union Pacific's two Winter Olympic Torch Relay locomotives which helped
relay the Olympic flame across much of the United States to Utah.

Bob Geier, Director of the Utah State Railroad Museum, said the city was
extremely pleased with the locomotive donation and new lease agreement.
"This significant reduction to our lease expense will greatly help and
benefit the museum's ability to develop new displays and enable us to become
a world class attraction," said Geier.

Ogden Union Station was donated to Ogden City in the late 1970s. It has
grown into a significant museum and community center complex featuring the
Utah State Railroad Museum.

"Union Pacific and Ogden have had a longstanding partnership," Verhaal said.
"We are happy we are able to enhance our support of the museum." Verhaal
added that Union Pacific has a history of support for the Utah State
Railroad Museum and other Ogden non-profit organizations through Foundation
and Corporate grants. In the past five years grants have totaled more than
$130,000.

The locomotive donated to the museum is the first SD45 model Electro-Motive
Division of General Motors diesel-electric delivered to Southern Pacific in
1966. The model became the signature locomotive on SP with 356 units, the
largest SD45 fleet in the country. The locomotives were a common sight in
Ogden, a historic gateway between UP and SP. UP acquired SP in 1996.

Union Pacific's two Olympic locomotives, their unique Torch Relay run
completed, will join the railroad's fleet of more than 7,000 locomotives.

Since the end of the steam era in the 1950s, Union Pacific has donated more
than 80 steam and diesel-electric locomotives, hundreds of cabooses, scores
of stations and depots and other railroad memorabilia for historic
preservation.

Union Pacific Corporation is one of America's leading transportation
companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the
largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states across the western
two-thirds of the United States. A strong focus on quality and a
strategically advantageous route structure enable the company to serve
customers in critical and fast growing markets. It is a leading carrier of
low-sulfur coal used in electrical power generation and has broad coverage
of the large chemical-producing areas along the Gulf Coast. With competitive
long-haul routes between all major West Coast ports and eastern gateways,
and as the only railroad to serve all six gateways to Mexico, Union Pacific
has the premier rail franchise in North America. The Corporation,
incorporated in the State of Utah, also owns Overnite Transportation, a
nationwide less-than-truckload carrier, and Fenix, a group of affiliated
technology companies.

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